Symposium Ⅱ: The Importance of International Harmonization and Process Control of Microbiological Food Safety

• Introduction......Bon KIMURA and Kunihiro KUBOTA.......47
• How It Is Going to Introduce the HACCP in Japan......Hiroshi UMEDA.......48
• HACCP Certification in Japan......Goichiro YUKAWA......55

Originals

• Drug Resistant Gram Negative Rods Isolated from Foods and Food Processing Plants ......Hiromi NAKAMURA, Kiyoshi YASUFUKU, Teruo HIRAYAMA, Yuki HIRAI, Sami FUJIHARA and Takayuki NISHIO. ...... 61
• Comparative Evaluation of the DNA Sequence Analysis and Commercial Identification System (API 20C AUX) Methods for Food-Borne Yeasts......Takashi CHIBA, Yumi TAKAHASHI, Satomi UEHARA and Kenji SADAMASU....... 69

Epidemiology

• Isolation of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci from Retail Meat in Tokyo ......Yukari NISHINO, Miki IDA, Yukako SHIMOJIMA, Rie FUKUI, Mitsushi INOMATA, Sumiyo KURODA, Rumi OKUNO, Akemi KAI, Akihiko HIRAI and Kenji SADAMASU. ...... 76

• Book Review ....... 82
• Introduction of Members ...... 83
• Selected Paper Abstacts ...... 84
• Proceeding of the Society ....... 87
• Information ...... 95