1st Edition
Harnessing Microbes for Sustainable Food Systems
Chapter 1: Introduction to Food Microbiology
Shilpa Malakar, Priya Sutaoney, Priyambada Singh, Shraddha Manish Gupta, Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, Kamal Shah, and Nagendra Singh Chauhan
Chapter 2: Microbiome of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Dipali Saxena, Rolly Mehrotra, Uttam Sharma, and Ahmed Hamad
Chapter 3: An Overview of Microflora in Dairy and Meat Products
Sucheta Mandal
Chapter 4: Fungi as Phytopathogens in Fruits and Vegetables: Emerging Control Methods
Rafael López-Cruz, Juan Arturo Ragazzo-Sánchez, Leonardo Covarrubias-Rivera, Jerusalen Betancourt-Rodríguez, and Montserrat Calderón Santoyo
Chapter 5: Bacteriological Spoilage and Detection of Food Products
Simge Aktop and Pınar Şanlıbaba
Chapter 6: Fungal Spoilage and Detection in Food Products
Shahriyar Valizadeh and Reza Tahergorabi
Chapter 7: Mycotoxins in Cheese: Types, Sources and Controlling Strategies
Enespa and Prem Chandra
Chapter 8: Conventional Techniques of Food Preservation
Muhammad Wasim Haider
Chapter 9: Recent Developments in Food Preservation Techniques
Milad Tavassoli, Reza Abedi-Firoozjah, Mohammad Hashemi, Ehsan Sadeghi, and Seyyed Mohammad Ali Noori
Chapter 10: Microbial Dynamics: Classification and Functional Roles in Fermented Foods
Amit Patnaik, Titirsha Kayal, Soumya Basu, Ponoop L. Kumar Patro, and Duryodhan Sahu
Chapter 11: Food Factors Influencing Microbial Development
Puja Bhoi and Narendra Kumar
Chapter 12: Combating Foodborne Fungal Infections: Diagnostics, Control Measures, and Future Directions
Mayuri Bhagawati, Chayan Dhar, Sukanya Sonowal, Kabyashree Buragohain, Badal Kumar Datta, and Ratul Nath
Chapter 13: Safeguarding Public Health: Effective Management and Emerging Solutions for Foodborne Viral Diseases
Indrani Sarkar
Chapter 14: Foodborne Parasitic Diseases Diagnostics and Control Measures
Bamidele Tolulope Odumosu, Chukwuemeka Amarachi Esther, Romiluyi Bosede, and Victor Agbo Olofu
Chapter 15: Antimicrobial Resistance in Poultry Pathogens: Implications for Food Safety and the Need for Enhanced Quality Control Standards
Gourav Biswas, Neeraja Mano, Adon Babu, and Tony Grace
Chapter 16: A Closer Look at Food Testing Agencies, Acts, Regulations and Patents
Ashim Jyoti Pathak, Karpumpuli Mili, Pankaj Chetia, and Minakshi Puzari
Chapter 17: Microbial Contribution to Fermented Foods and Quality Enhancement
Indrani Gogoi, Shyamalima Saikia, and Pankaj Chetia
Chapter 18: Food Protein Production through Recombinant Microbial Technology
Xiao Zheng and Jianguo Zhang
Chapter 19: Nanomaterials-Incorporated Intelligent Food Packing for Detection and Prevention of Microbial Contamination
Seyma Dadi, Nimet Temur, Emine Ozdemir, Mustafa Nisari, Ugur Azizoglu, and Ismail Ocsoy
Biography
Priya Sutaoney, PhD in microbiology, merit list holder in postgraduation, CG SET qualified, has several years of academic experience in teaching UG and PG students in Microbiology at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh in India. She taught subjects like food microbiology, medical microbiology and immunology, plant physiology, microbial genetics, and genomics. She is a member of the Mycological Society of India and, Society of Biological Chemist. She has published more than 10 research articles in reputed journals and four book chapters. She has attended several workshops and presented research papers at several conferences, and symposiums. She is also active as a reviewer for scientific journals. Currently, she is working as an Assistant Professor and guide for students in the Department of Microbiology in Kalinga University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
Priyambada Singh, PhD in microbiology, gold medalist in microbiology, CSIRUGC NET-LS, GATE, and CG SET qualified, has several years of academic experience in microbiology at Chhattisgarh Dental College and Research Institute, Rajnandgaon, India. She has taught subjects like medical microbiology, food microbiology, immunology, and virology and has published four research articles in reputed journals and one book chapter. She has attended several workshops and presented research papers at several national and international conferences and symposiums. Currently, she is working as an assistant professor and guide for students in the Department of Microbiology in Kalinga University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
Durgesh Nandini Chauhan, MPharm, has several years of academic (teaching) experience at institutes in India in pharmaceutical sciences. She has taught subjects such as pharmaceutics, pharmacognosy, traditional concepts of medicinal plants, drug delivery, phytochemistry, cosmetic technology, pharmaceutical engineering, pharmaceutical packaging, quality assurance, dosage form designing, and anatomy and physiology. She is a member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India, SILAE: SocietàItalo-Latinoamericana di Etnomedicina (The Scientific Network on Ethnomedicine, Italy), and others. Her previous research work included “Penetration Enhancement Studies on Organogel of Oxytetracycline HCL.” She has attended several workshops, conferences, and symposiums, including the AICTEsponsored staff development program on “Effects of Teaching and Learning Skills in Pharmacy: Tool for Improvement of Young Pharmacy Teachers.” She has written more than 10 articles published in national and international journals, has contributed 15 book chapters, and is an editor in 10 books. She is also active as a reviewer for several international scientific journals and is an active participant at national and international conferences, including Bhartiya Vigyan Sammelan and the International Convention of Society of Pharmacognosy. Presently, she has joined Ishita Research Organization, Raipur, India, as a freelance writer and guide for students in pharmacy, Ayurvedic, and science in their research projects. She is interested in data analysis, proposal writing, questionnaire design, designing and developing research questionnaires, and policy. She is also actively engaged with accurately monitoring, investigating, and analyzing all statistical information; professionally presenting information; reports and investigating; and documenting key data and information at the request of senior researchers.
Nagendra Singh Chauhan has professional expertise in natural product isolation and hands-on experience in various techniques, like extraction, isolation, and purification of natural products from plant extracts using various chromatographic techniques for the separation of compounds, including column, LC-MS, chromatography, and prep TLC. He specializes in the elucidation of the structure of natural products with the help of various techniques, like UV, mass spectrometry, IR, and NMR. He is well versed with the design, conduct, and data treatment of various in vivo experiments, like aphrodisiac, antidiabetic, antistress, hair growth, BPH, hepatoprotective, and reproductive parameters. He has written more than 50 articles published in national and international journals, contributed 20 book chapters, and edited four books.
Kamal Shah completed his graduation from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal (MP), and was also awarded the Chancellor Gold Medal and Smt. Kamla Chaturvedi Memorial Award for securing first position in graduation (BPharm). He qualified for GATE 2003 (IIT, Madras) with an 82.13 percentile and GATE 2005 (IIT, Mumbai) with a 92.64 percentile. In 2006, he completed his masters from Dr. H. S. Gour University–Sagar and worked on method development for the determination of pharmacological active components by UV and HPLC. He has completed his doctorate from Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. Currently, he is working as an associate professor in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, GLA University, Mathura (UP). He has published his research work in various journals of national and international repute and has a total of 26 published research papers to his credit and more than 300 citations. He is a member of various professional and academic bodies, like the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (IAEC), and Board of Studies (BOS). He is a reviewer for various national and international journals, like Medicinal Chemistry Research, Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Journal of Sexual Medicine, Natural Product Research, African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Biology, and Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics. He has also written three chapters in the book (special edition) Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses. His area of interest is the “synthesis and evaluation of prodrugs of NSAIDs.”
