Food Safety in the Context of One Health: Current Trends, Challenges and Perspectives

Embedding sustainability is at the core of each individual to protect ourselves, animals, and the interconnected environments. Remaining well-informed is important to make sure that food remains safe as trends in food production can change based on consumer trends. Current methodologies for ensuring food safety face new challenges due to these dynamics, underscoring the necessity for innovative antimicrobial approaches and alternative strategies that can protect consumers, animals, and our shared environment.

This Research Topic aims to explore multifaceted strategies to ensure food safety within the One Health framework. Focusing on sustainable food production, the management of microbiomes in agriculture, and the development of new decontamination technologies, we seek to broaden the understanding of how integrated approaches can enhance the safety of food products while maintaining ecological integrity.

We welcome Original Research, Review, Systematic Review, and Perspective articles covering aspects related to ensuring food safety in the context of One Health. Contributions should cover the following aspects which fall into one or more categories:

• Sustainable food production and food safety, including impacts of organic farming on foodborne pathogens;
• Microbiome management for food safety, focusing on interventions in livestock and crops;
• Identification and description of emerging microbial pathogens in food production, using advanced sequencing and microbiological methods;
• Food safety concerns with novel foods and food products, assessing risks associated with alternatives like plant-based meats and insect protein;
• Innovative decontamination methods to ensure microbial safety of food, including plasma treatments and pulsed light technologies;
• Prevention and surveillance strategies for controlling outbreaks in food production, focusing on novel antimicrobial strategies and surveillance techniques.

Keywords: One Health Approach, Food safety strategies, Microbiome management, Emerging microbial pathogens, Decontamination methods, Foodborne pathogen control, Surveillance in food production

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.