Innovations in Detection of Deliberate or Accidental Contamination with Biological Agents in Environment and Foods

Abstract

In 2016, two special issues were launched and attended in this journal, “Challenges in New Technologies for Security” (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/challenges/special_issues/tech_ security) and “Food Microbiology: Technologies and processes, microbiology analysis methods, and antimicrobials” (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/challenges/special_issues/food-microbiology). In this editorial, I will review one of the topics of biological hazards detection, namely, the rapid analysis of biological agents (DNA and antigens of fungi, bacteria, and viruses) and their toxins.[...]