New study shows AI can predict if Listeria bacteria will survive common food industry disinfectants, helping improve food safety and cleaning protocols.

This review highlights the critical need for innovative solutions to mitigate biofilm formation, enhance food safety, and reduce economic losses in the food industry.

New research underscores the critical need for innovative solutions to combat biofilm formation on food-contact surfaces, which poses a major risk to public health and food quality.

Recent high-profile contamination scares within the international food industry have highlighted the need for best practice when it comes to dairy manufacturing. After 15 years of research into dairy ...

A small group of scientists on the biofilm mitigation team at NASA's Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama, study solutions to combat fast-growing colonies of bacteria or fungi, known as ...

Biofilms represent serious challenges to the food industry since they enable bacteria to adhere to various kinds of surfaces. However, due to the physiological changes and the protective barrier ...

These trainings are typically attended by food-processing plant professionals, representatives of industry associations, food safety consultants and government inspectors.

As a result of the biofilms shielding the pathogen, the sanitizers are not as effective in killing Listeria monocytogenes, explained Laura Rolon, who recently earned her doctorate from Penn State ...

With a consortium of 63 academic partner institutions across the UK, NBIC is the central hub where academia, industry, government and public policy come together to tackle the grand challenges ...

This is what a 73-day-old biofilm looks like after being pulled from a lowland river. Author provided, CC BY-ND Why are biofilms important? Without slime, rivers would lack a fundamental source of ...

Seaweed, a common name for thousands of marine plants and algae found in different water bodies, not only provides food and shelter for marine animals, but it can also help solve the plastic ...