The Microbiological Safety of Low Water Activity Foods and Spices

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gurtler, Joshua B. (Editor), Doyle, Michael P. (Editor), Kornacki, Jeffrey L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Food Microbiology and Food Safety
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Microbiology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Food Science.; Chemistry/Food Science, general.; Applied Microbiology.

Low water activity (aw) and dried foods such as dried dairy and meat products, grain-based and dried ready-to-eat cereal products, powdered infant formula, peanut and nut pastes, as well as flours and meals have increasingly been associated with product recalls and foodborne outbreaks due to contami...