Background notes
1. I last up-dated the site in November 2009.
2. This site accompanies the two books: The Microbiology of Safe Food (2000) and The Microbiological Risk Assessment of Food (2002) books. It will also be supporting the forthcoming '2nd Edition of The Microbiolgy of Safe Food'. In addition, in 1998 I wrote 'Food Hygiene, Microbiology and HACCP' with Aspen Publishers (now Kluwer Academic Publishers). The Brazilian Portuguese version of the 'The Microbiology of Safe Food' has been released and the Spanish version came out in 2003. Meanwhile the Spanish version of my book 'Food Hygiene, Microbiology and HACCP' with Pat Hayes has been released by Acribia
3. I had started preparing the 2nd Edition of The Microbiology of Safe Food for publication in 2007. This should have been completed in 2006, but my personal research on the emergent pathogen, Cronobacter spp. (Enterobacter sakazakii) has taken precedence; see Food poisoning microorganisms for details. Areas which are being modified include:
- Bacterial genomics and bioinformatics
- Microbiological media design; chromogenic, etc.
- Detergents and disinfectants
- Microbiological risk assessment
- Foodborne pathogens
- Food additives and food contact materials (active packaging).
Please email me (stephen.forsythe@ntu.ac.uk) with any further suggestions and I'll acknowledge you in the Preface.
4.You can go to Masters for details of relevant Masters courses on microbiology, biotechnology and bioinformatics. All our research units were rated as internationally recognised in the last Research Assessment Exercise (2008) and in many cases included world-leading research. 5. My general microbiology homepage can be found at www.theagarplate.com and my postal address is : Prof SJ Forsythe, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS, UK. Email : stephen.forsythe@ntu.ac.uk. If you're so inclined my cv can be accessed here.
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