Special Lecturer

• Risk Profile for Risk Assessment of Food Campylobacter Jejuni/Coli in Chicken ...... Shigeki YAMAMOTO ...... 1

Education Lecturer

• Microbial Control on Fresh Fruits and Vegetables: Thinking about Blanching ...... Teppei IMAIZUMI ...... 4

Symposium I: For Rapid Detection and Response and Prevention of Sporadic Food Poisonings Dispersed in Broad Area

• Introduction ...... Jun TERAJIMA and Naomi SAKON ...... 9
• Molecular Epidemiological Analysis of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli ...... Hidemasa IZUMIYA ...... 10
• Investigation and Its Problems of Diffuse Outbreaks Caused by Foodborne Viruses ...... Mamoru NODA ...... 13

Special Symposium: Food Microbiology for Health Promotion

• Introduction ...... Yoshikazu NISHIKAWA and Masami MIYAKE ...... 22
• Clinical Application of Probiotics ...... Akimitsu TAKAGI ...... 23
• Prolongevity Effects of Lactic Acid Bacteria in C. elegans ...... Tomomi KOMURA ...... 28
• Effect of Yogurt on Intestinal Barrier Function ...... Kyosuke KOBAYASHI and Yukio ASAMI ...... 32
• Prevention of Age-Related Hearing Loss by Oral Intake of Heat-Killed Bacteria in Mice ...... Hideaki OIKE ...... 36

Original

• Morphological Analysis of the Fungicidal Effect of Yellow Chinese Chive against Candida albicans ...... Ayasa KAMEZAKI and Sakuo YAMADA ...... 40

Short Paper

• Development of a Multiplex Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Discriminating between Campylobacter jejuni/coli ...... Yusuke CHIBA, Kyohei SAKATA, Yuka FURUI, Aya TAMURA and Kunihiko TAKAHASHI ...... 47

Method

• EConservation of Beef and Pork Using Modified Atmosphere Packaging ...... Kazuyuki MIURA, Shizuka NARITA, Yuki TODA, Tetsuya NOICHI, Masatoshi TOMITA and Yukio MORITA...... 53

• Introduction of Members ...... 58
• Selected Paper Abstacts ...... 59
• Proceeding of the Society ...... 63
• Information ....... 65
• Norts to Contributors ...... 67