APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO COMETOLOGY
Microbiological Quality control
Raw materials: pollution levels and controls.
Packaging and microbial tests
Water control, water activity: microbial tests.
Final product: microbial tests.
Challenge test
Analytical microbiological tests
Colony forming Units count, filtration systems, Most probable Number (MPN) test
Qualitative methods for the detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Candida albicans
Microbiology lab Practice
Microbiological control of a cosmetic product
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO WATER ANALYSIS
Waterborne diseases transmission
Interaction between eukaryotic and prokaryotic marine organisms.
Physiological response of marine bacteria to stress condition.
Microbiological control of water quality.
Legislation.
Identification of marine bacteria by cultural and molecular methods.
Microbiology lab Practice
Microbiological analysis of seawater sample by cultural methods
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO FOOD INDUSTRY
Parameters affecting the microbial growth in foods (pH, aw, temperature, humidity, nutrients, atmosphere modifications).
Methods of food storage (temperature, radiations, chemicals).
Food infection/intoxication
Microbiology of fermented food: from milk to yogurt
Functional food: Probiotics, prebiotics, symbiontics.
Microbiology lab Practice
Isolation and characterization of Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus from a yogurt sample