"From the symposium Advances in Microbial Food Safety, which was sponsored by the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Inc. (AGFD) at the 228th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during August 22-26, 2004"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Genoic and Proteomic Approaches for Studying Bacterial Stress Responses -- Overview of Rapid Methods for the Detection of Foodborne Pathogensand Toxins -- Nucleic Acid asd Diagnostic Methods -- Molecular Approaches to Immunological Biosensors: Phage Displayed Antibodies for the Detection of Fooborne Pathogenic Bacteria -- Quorum Sensing and Food Safety -- Recent Advances in Pre- and Postslaughter Intervention Strategies for Control of eat Containation -- Thermal Treatments to Control Pathogens in Muscle Foods with Particular Reference to sos vide Products -- Recent Advances in Food Irradiation: Mutagenicity Testin of 2Dode cycloutanone -- Nonthermal Inactivation E. coli in Fruit Juices Using Radio Frequency Electric Fields -- High Hydrostatic Pressure Processing -- Microbiological and Safety Aspects of Pulsed Electric Field Technology -- Antibiotic Activities of Plant Compounds against Non-Resistant and Antibiotic-Resistant Foodborne Human Pathogens -- Usesand Limits of Microbial Testing -- Predicting the Growth of Microbial Pathogens in Food 2 -- Modeling the Behavior and Fate of Microbial Pathogens in Beef Processing Particle Reduction Operations -- Approaches for Modeling Thermal Inactivation of Foodborne Pathogens -- Computational Tools in Predictive Microbiology -- Industry Perspectives on Performance Standards -- Regulatory Perspective on Enhancing the Safety of Fooda NeedsandChallenges -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Imported and Domestic Produce Surveys -- Food as a W eapon of Terrorismr.