title: Use of encapsulated bacteriophages to enhance farm to fork food safety.
abstract: Bacteriophages have been successfully applied to control the growth of pathogens in foods and to reduce the colonization and shedding of pathogens by food animals. They are set to play a dominant role in food safety in the future. However, many food-processing operations and the microenvironments in food animals' guts inactivate phages and reduce their infectivity. Encapsulation technologies have been used successfully to protect phages against extreme environments, and have been shown to preserve their activity and enable their release in targeted environments. A number of encapsulation technologies have shown potential for use with bacteriophages. This review discusses the current state of knowledge about the use of encapsulation technologies with bacteriophages to control pathogens in foods and food animals.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Wine, Food and Molecular Biosciences , Lincoln University , Christchurch , New Zealand.|b Guelph Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Malik A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.affiliation: b Guelph Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.|c Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology , Ministry of Education, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University , Wuxi , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Huan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: b Guelph Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: c Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology , Ministry of Education, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University , Wuxi , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: b Guelph Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: b Guelph Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Guelph , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Sampathkumar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Balamurugan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001435:Bacteriophages; D000072480:Farms; D005511:Food Handling / Q000379:methods*; D059022:Food Safety
keywords: Bacteriophages; food safety; microencapsulation; pathogen control; phage therapy