Abstract:Food microbial-safety has attracted much attention in the world. Salmonella Spp, Listeria monocytogenes, E.coli O157:H7 can survive in food processing, causing health hazards to consumers. Nowadays, rapid detection of food pathogens and microbial toxins are considered to be important to ensure food safety in the fast food circulation. As one of the six major techniques in life sciences of the 21st Century, proteomics provide new route for safety assessment and monitoring food microbes, which might complement the shortages of the rapid detection methods based on immunology or genomics. This paper mainly discussesed the application of proteomics on inspections of food microbial-safety, including identification of potential pathogenic microorganisms in foods by peptide fingerprints, analysis of the adaption of microorganisms to external environments, etc. Advanced studies on biofilm with proteomics method were also covered in this paper.
