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Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective
Food-processing facilities harbor a wide diversity of microorganisms that persist and interact in multispecies biofilms, which could provide an ecological niche for pathogens to better colonize and gain tolerance against sanitization. Biofilm formation by foodborne pathogens is a serious threat to f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8954374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35335670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11030346 |
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author | Chitlapilly Dass, Sapna Wang, Rong |
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description | Food-processing facilities harbor a wide diversity of microorganisms that persist and interact in multispecies biofilms, which could provide an ecological niche for pathogens to better colonize and gain tolerance against sanitization. Biofilm formation by foodborne pathogens is a serious threat to food safety and public health. Biofilms are formed in an environment through synergistic interactions within the microbial community through mutual adaptive response to their long-term coexistence. Mixed-species biofilms are more tolerant to sanitizers than single-species biofilms or their planktonic equivalents. Hence, there is a need to explore how multispecies biofilms help in protecting the foodborne pathogen from common sanitizers and disseminate biofilm cells from hotspots and contaminate food products. This knowledge will help in designing microbial interventions to mitigate foodborne pathogens in the processing environment. As the global need for safe, high-quality, and nutritious food increases, it is vital to study foodborne pathogen behavior and engineer new interventions that safeguard food from contamination with pathogens. This review focuses on the potential food safety issues associated with biofilms in the food-processing environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-89543742022-03-26 Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective Chitlapilly Dass, Sapna Wang, Rong Pathogens Review Food-processing facilities harbor a wide diversity of microorganisms that persist and interact in multispecies biofilms, which could provide an ecological niche for pathogens to better colonize and gain tolerance against sanitization. Biofilm formation by foodborne pathogens is a serious threat to food safety and public health. Biofilms are formed in an environment through synergistic interactions within the microbial community through mutual adaptive response to their long-term coexistence. Mixed-species biofilms are more tolerant to sanitizers than single-species biofilms or their planktonic equivalents. Hence, there is a need to explore how multispecies biofilms help in protecting the foodborne pathogen from common sanitizers and disseminate biofilm cells from hotspots and contaminate food products. This knowledge will help in designing microbial interventions to mitigate foodborne pathogens in the processing environment. As the global need for safe, high-quality, and nutritious food increases, it is vital to study foodborne pathogen behavior and engineer new interventions that safeguard food from contamination with pathogens. This review focuses on the potential food safety issues associated with biofilms in the food-processing environment. MDPI 2022-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8954374/ /pubmed/35335670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11030346 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Chitlapilly Dass, Sapna Wang, Rong Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective |
title | Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective |
title_full | Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective |
title_fullStr | Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective |
title_short | Biofilm through the Looking Glass: A Microbial Food Safety Perspective |
title_sort | biofilm through the looking glass: a microbial food safety perspective |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8954374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35335670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11030346 |
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