MA0010 - APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY TO COSMETOLOGY Microbiological Quality control Frontal lessons 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 Frontal lessons 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 Frontal lessons 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