Detecting pathogens in food
By: edited by Thomas A. McMeekin.
Contributors: McMeekin, T. A.
Publisher: Woodhead Pub.; CRC Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge; Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Food -- Analysis.; Pathogenic microorganisms -- Detection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- T. McMeekin -- PART I. GENERAL ISSUES; title: Microbiological analysis and food safety management: GMP and HACCP systems -- C. de W. Blackburn; title: Sampling techniques -- D. Legan, -- M.H. Vandeven; title: Separation and concentration of samples -- A. Sharpe; title: Validating detection techniques -- J. Debevere, -- M. Uyttendaele; title: Quality assurance of laboratory performance -- R. Wood, -- J.E.L. Corry -- PART II. PARTICULAR TECHNIQUES; title: Culture methods -- P. Stephens; title: Electrical methods -- D.M. Gibson; title: ATP bioluminescence -- M. Griffiths, -- L. Brovko; title: Microscopy techniques: DEFT and flow cytometry -- R. Raybourne, -- M. Tortorello; title: Immunological techniques: immunochromatography, enzyme linked immunofluorescent assays and agglutination techniques -- C.L. Baylis; title: Immunological techniqeus: ELISA --; title: Genetic techniques: PCR, NASBA, hybridisation and microarrays -- K. Sanderson, -- D. Nichols; title: Genetic techniques: molecular subtyping methods -- C. Fitzgerald, -- B. Swaminathan; title: New biosensors for microbiological analysis of food -- G. Volpe, -- G. Palleschi; title: The use of applied systematics to identify foodborne pathogens -- M. Uyttendaele, -- J. Debevere.