CORDIS OpenAire Sygma Archivio della ricerca - Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II FEDOA - IRIS Università degli Studi Napoli Federico II Crossref T-Stór Microsoft Academic Graph Europe PubMed Central Cork Open Research Archive (CORA) European Union Open Data Portal https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751 Annual Review of Food Science and Technology Open Access 2021-10-22 2022-07-13 <p> Microorganisms exist along the food chain and impact the quality and safety of foods in both positive and negative ways. Identifying and understanding the behavior of these microbial communities enable the implementation of preventative or corrective measures in public health and food industry settings. Current culture-dependent microbial analyses are time-consuming and target only specific subsets of microbes. However, the greater use of culture-independent meta-omic approaches has the potential to facilitate a thorough characterization of the microbial communities along the food chain. Indeed, these methods have shown potential in contributing to outbreak investigation, ensuring food authenticity, assessing the spread ofantimicrobial resistance, tracking microbial dynamics during fermentation and processing, and uncovering the factors along the food chain that impact food quality and safety. This review examines the community-based approaches, and particularly the application of sequencing-based meta-omics strategies, for characterizing microbial communities along the food chain. </p> 0301 basic medicine 2. Zero hunger 0303 health sciences High-throughput sequencing Food Chain Food microbiome Microbiota high-throughput sequencing Meta-omic approaches food processing environment 3. Good health meta-omic approaches 03 medical and health sciences food-processing environment food microbiome; food-processing environment; high-throughput sequencing; meta-omic approaches; Fermentation; Food Industry; Food Chain; Microbiota food microbiome Fermentation Food Industry Food-processing environment Yap M., Ercolini D., Alvarez-Ordonez A., O'Toole P. W., O'Sullivan O., Cotter P. D., 2022-03-25 journalpaper <p> Microorganisms exist along the food chain and impact the quality and safety of foods in both positive and negative ways. Identifying and understanding the behavior of these microbial communities enable the implementation of preventative or corrective measures in public health and food industry settings. Current culture-dependent microbial analyses are time-consuming and target only specific subsets of microbes. However, the greater use of culture-independent meta-omic approaches has the potential to facilitate a thorough characterization of the microbial communities along the food chain. Indeed, these methods have shown potential in contributing to outbreak investigation, ensuring food authenticity, assessing the spread ofantimicrobial resistance, tracking microbial dynamics during fermentation and processing, and uncovering the factors along the food chain that impact food quality and safety. This review examines the community-based approaches, and particularly the application of sequencing-based meta-omics strategies, for characterizing microbial communities along the food chain. </p> Next-generation food research: Use of meta-omic approaches for characterizing microbial communities along the food chain 10.1146/annurev-food-052720-010751