Preservation and Aseptic Processing
- Conventional and advanced thermal preservation
- Development of gentle, non-thermal preservation concepts for liquid and semi-solid matrices
- Advanced surface decontamination for contact materials and solid matrices
- Physical, chemical and sensory product quality analysis
- Evaluation of storage stability and product shelf life testing
- Monitoring of inactivation mechanisms for vegetative cells and bacterial endospores
- Study of viable but non-culturable cells and physiological characterization of sub-lethally injured sub-populations
- Validation of preservation processes and establishment of validation concepts
- Cross contamination studies
- Hygiene monitoring, hygienic design, development of cleaning, disinfection and sterilization protocols, study of biofilms on various contact surfaces, HACCP verification
- Analysis of food-chain related bacteria – identity, characteristics and safety
- Tailoring of cultural and molecular methods
- Case-related analytics of specific bacteria
- Antibiotic resistance testing
- In-vitro screening of novel antimicrobial substances
- Development and safety evaluation of starter cultures and probiotics
