Metagenomics Approaches for Improving Food Safety: A Review

What is it about?

Metagenomic-based approaches are the next disruptive revolution in food safety diagnostics and offer the potential to directly identify entire microbial communities in a single food, ingredient, or environmental sample. In this review, metagenomic-based approaches are introduced and placed within the context of conventional diagnostic techniques, and essential considerations for undertaking metagenomic assays and data analysis are described. Recent applications of the use of metagenomics for food safety are discussed, alongside current limitations and knowledge gaps, and new opportunities arising from the use of this technology.

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