A Review on Recent Trends in Bacteriophages for Post-Harvest Food Decontamination.

ABSTRACT: Infectious diseases resulting from unsafe food consumption are a global concern. Despite recent advances and control measures in the food industry aimed at fulfilling the growing consumer demand for high-quality and safe food products, infection outbreaks continue to occur. This review stands out by providing an overview of post-harvest food decontamination methods against some of the most important bacterial foodborne pathogens, with particular focus on the advantages and challenges of using phages, including their most recent post-harvest applications directly to food and integration into active food packaging systems, highlighting their potential in providing safer and healthier food products. The already approved commercial phage products and the numerous available studies demonstrate

SUBMITTER: Braz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11946132 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature