Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7688148 | TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry | 2017 | 37 Pages |
Abstract
Genomics and related tools are beginning to have a tremendous impact on food safety by allowing for a more precise approach to pathogen detection, characterization, and identification. The data produced using these tools are expected to lead to a paradigm shift in modern food safety concepts with impacts similar to those facilitated through development of personalized medicine methods in human medicine. We hence envision a future of food safety that can be best described as “precision food safety”. While precision food safety will employ a number of new approaches and methods, omics tools will play a particularly important role and will provide for improved and more precise food safety procedures, including increasingly accurate risk assessment that will support evidence-based food safety decision-making. This review will highlight examples where genomics-based precision food safety approaches will have a significant impact.
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Authors
Jasna Kovac, Henk den Bakker, Laura M. Carroll, Martin Wiedmann,