Food Safety and Preservation

Dr. Grumezescu is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, in the Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, with a second affiliation to the Faculty of Medical Engineering, at the Politehnica University of Bucharest in Romania. He is an experienced and oft-published researcher and editor in the field of nano and biomaterials, and he is the Editor-in-Chief of three journals: Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry, Letters and Applied NanoBioScience, and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Bulletin. He also serves as editor or guest editor for several notable journals. Dr. Grumezescu has published 150 peer-reviewed papers, 20 book chapters, 6 co-authored books and 11 edited books. Alina-Maria Holban is a lecturer in Microbiology and Immunology, at the Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest; and associate researcher at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Her primary area of research is the development of bionanomaterials with antimicrobial applications. Dr. Holban has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 42 conference/symposia proceedings, and has edited more than 21 edited books.

• Section 1: Advanced tools in food safety and hazard detection1. A Critical Appraisal on Different Food Safety and Quality Management Tools to Accomplish Food Safety2. Food Safety: Benefits of Contamination Control in Consumers Health 3. Preemptive and Proactive strategies for Food Control and Biosecurity4. Validation of Analytical Methods for the Assessment of Hazards in Food5. The Assay of Pesticide in Foods Using Electrochemical Sensors6. Multiway Calibration Approaches for Quality Control of Food Samples7. Biocontrol as Efficient Tool for Food Control and BiosecuritySection 2: Microbial contamination and emerging food-borne diseases8. Foodborne Diseases and Responsible Agents9. Challenges in Emerging Food-borne Diseases10. Opportunistic Foodborne Pathogens11. Food Poisoning and Intoxication – A Global Leading Concern for Human Health12. Staphylococcal Food Poisoning13. Campylobacter: An Important Food Safety Issue14. Food Contamination: From Food Degradation to Food-borne Diseases15. A review on Implications of Interaction between Human Pathogenic Bacteria and Host on Food Quality and Disease16. Novel Strategies for the Reduction of Microbial Degradation of FoodsSection 3: New preservation approaches to increase food safety17. Relevance and Legal Frame in Novel Food Preservation Approaches for Improving Food Safety and Risks Assessment18. The Current Approaches and Challenges of Biopreservation19. Modern Preservation Tools through Packaging for High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing 20. Natural Food Preservatives Against Microorganisms