It is rewarding when later academic generations perpetuate the scientific endeavours of their predecessors [German]

摘要

In spite of the availability of a sizeable bibliography on Food Microbiology and on processing-for-safety experience in the area of Assurance of the Microbiological Integrity, i.e. safety and quality, of the incidence of food-borne diseases with a microbiological aetiology foods in privileged regions of the world is not consistently decreasing. Faecally transmitted viroses have been identified as a substantial component of this - in essence completely preventable disease burden. Introduction and adoption of HACCP-based, longitudinally integrated intervention strategies, relying on Codes of Good Manufacturing and Distribution Practices, issued by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, have, to some extent, improved the situation, without, however, rectifying it, as is within reach, when at least all raw materials, entering the food manufacture and catering, were henceforth to be delivered in pathogen "free" condition, like pasteurized milk.