General Biological Hazards and Predictive Microbiology

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre, University of Bristol	'Bugdeath' Project to produce accurate predictive microbiological models of the reduction of microorganisms on food surfaces during surface pasteurisation processes. The website includes information about the project objectives and project partners. (more)	Aug 19, 2003
	Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture/United Kingdom Food Standards Agency/Institute of Food Research	ComBase Database of predictive microbiology information collected from researchers, institutions, and published literature. The database may be searched based on temperature, pH, water activity, condition, source (publication), organism, and environment. Files are returned giving organism, maximum rate, doubling time or D-value, source, conditions, environment, temperature, pH, water activity, a table and chart for log concentration vs. time, and any further details. A basic registration process also allows a user to download the data. (more)	Jul 14, 2003
	Powell, Mark; Schlosser, Wayne; Ebel, Eric	Considering the Complexity of Microbial Community Dynamics in Food Safety Risk Assessment This article explores the importance of interspecific competition in predictive microbiology and how microbial community dynamics could be incorporated into food safety risk assessment. (more) Publication Year: 2004	Jan 7, 2004
	Exponent, Inc.	FARE MicrobialTM Software program for conducting probabilistic microbial risk assessment. The program was developed by Exponent together with the Food and Drug Administration, and consists of a Contamination and Growth Module and an Exposure Module. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) 1994-96, 98 are included in the program. A users manual, containing both installation and use guidelines, is provided. (more) Publication Month: September 2002	Nov 4, 2002
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration	Fish and Fisheries Products Hazards and Controls Guidance: Third Edition This report discusses the FDA's thinking on the hazards associated with fish and fishery products and on controls for those hazards. It includes information on developing a HACCP Plan and discussion of such hazards as pathogens from the harvest area, parasites, natural toxins, chemical contaminants, aquaculture drugs, allergens, metal and glass inclusion, and more. (more) Publication Month: June 2001	Aug 7, 2002
	Institute of Food Research	MicroFit v1.0 Tool for obtaining microbiological growth parameters from challenge test data. You must register to download the software, but the download is free. (more)	Jul 14, 2003
	Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Pathogen Modeling Program Tool for estimating the effects of multiple variables on the growth or survival of foodborne pathogens.	Aug 31, 2001
	Pace, Norman R.	Risk Assessment and Microbial Ecology This presentation was given at the 1st International Conference on Microbiological Risk Assessment, held in Adelphi, MD on July 24-26, 2002. Topics addressed include detection of microbes, molecular phylogeny, ribosomal RNA, the molecular method, the phylogeny of bacterial pathogens, results of a study on prostatitis using rDNA, the presence of bacteria in common household places, and problems with the molecular approach. The pdf version of this presentation is available here. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002	Aug 19, 2002
	Aantrekker, Esther den	Summary of "Recontamination in Food Processing - Quantitative Modelling for Risk Assessment" Summary of a thesis on recontamination as an exposure route. The research was funded by Unilever Research and Development, the Netherlands, conducted at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and supervised by Prof. Mike van Schothorst, Prof. Remko Boom, and Dr. Marcel Zwietering. In the future, the full text will be available here. (more) Publication Year: 2002	Sep 17, 2002
	Center of Excellence in Microbial Modeling and Informatics, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	USDA-ARS Eastern Regional Research Center's Center of Excellence in Microbial Modeling & Informatics: CEMMI Center that works to advance the science of microbial modeling. The website includes information on current projects and links to software applications. (more)	Jul 14, 2003

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