Review

• Recent Advances in Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Studies:
  Focus on the Molecular Diversity and Biological Multifunctionality......Dong-Liang Hu and Masashi Okamura......87

Educational Lecture 2

• Host-Gut Microbiota Interaction ......Hiroshi Ohno...... 95

Special Symposium: History of the Basic and Applied Research in Botulism in Japan:
Featuring Research Achievement by Dr. Sakaguchi

• Introduction......Masami Miyake ...... 100
• Accomplishments on Botulinum Toxin Study by Prof. Genji Sakaguchi......Shunji Kozaki ...... 101
• Recent Advances in Biology of Botulinum Toxins......Yukako Fujinaga, Takuhiro Matsumura, Sho Amatsu, Yo Sugawara and Masahiro Yutani ...... 104
• History of Production and Quality Control Utilizing Human Botulinum Toxoid in Japan......Motohide Takahashi ...... 110

Symposium I: Key Issues on Food Safety Management in the Era of Globalization

• Introduction......Masami Miyake and Ro Osawa ...... 115
• Food Safety Management System and Its Globalization......Hiroshi Takimoto ...... 116
• Actions of Food Industrials to Globalization of Food Safety Management......Ken Hirayama ...... 122
• Microbiological Criteria Related to Food in the Context of Globalization of the Food Safety Management System......Hajime Toyofuku ...... 124

Original

• The Effect of the Resident Strains to Listeria monocytogenes Biofilm Formation ......Daisuke Kyoui, Mami Ogai, Eri Hirokawa, Hajime Takahashi, Takashi Kuda and Bon Kimura ...... 131

Case

• A Food Poisoning Case of Staphylococcus aureus Associated with Pumpkin Cream Soup......Kaoru Umeda, Hiromi Nakamura, Kaori Yamamoto, Jun Ogasawara, Yuki Hirai, Teruo Hirayama, Atsushi Hase and Takayuki Nishio ...... 137

• Book Reviews ....... 142, 143
• Introduction of Members ...... 144
• Selected Paper Abstacts ...... 145
• Proceeding of the Society ....... 149
• Information ...... 151