Increased fear of bioterrorism
Such undesirable organisms may be the result of accident or that someone has placed them in the food deliberately, as with bioterrorism - which the population is becoming more and more concerned about. The project addresses both chemical and biological causes and the participants are expert in a number of different technical areas, such as database development, software, risk assessment and microbiology. They are focusing on meat, dairy products, animal feed and bottled water.
Nofima Mat is contributing DNA based methods for separating living and dead bacteria. The project specific studies will concern the survival of Campylobacter in chicken and the survival of microbial communities in milk in the context of pasteurisation.
