Fish Microbiology and Quality Assurance

Unit 6 - Biological hazards in foods

6.1. Biological hazards
The presence of human pathogenic microorganisms in food has potential human health risk as the consumption of such food could cause food poisoning. Besides bacteria, presence of human pathogenic viruses and several other organisms such as parasites and worms or accumulation of toxic metabolites produced by toxic microalgae in fish and shellfish, and consumption such food could be cause of health related problems. These hazards of biological origin cause a serious health related problems. Hence, there is a need to free the food meant for human consumption form these biological hazards.