Vol.25, No.1 2008

Education Lecture

  • Food-borne Virus Infection......Naokazu TAKEDA...... 1

Symposium: Control of Food Hygiene and the Role of Microbiological Testing

  • Introduction......Yoichi ONOUE and Tsutomu ASAO...... 7
  • To Understand ISO 22000: The Role of Microbiological Testing-......Emiko ARAKI...... 8
  • International Trends in Setting Microbiological Standards and Criteria for Foods......Fumiko KASUGA...... 13
  • Standardized Bacteriological Analytical Methods for Food Hygiene: The Japanese Present Argument and Future Prospects......Shizunobu IGIMI...... 18
  • Studies on Standard Detection Method for Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Food......Michiko MIYAHARA...... 23

Original

  • Descriptive Epidemiology of Norovirus Outbreaks in Daycare Centers: Clinical Features in Young Children and Characteristics of Norovirus Infection......Rikio TANIGUCHI, Yoshizumi HATANO, Mutsumi MOTODATE, Atsuko TANAKA and Tanji HOSHI...... 27

Short Paper

  • Heat Inactivation of Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) in Egg Yolk and Its Survivability in Mayonnaise......Nobuhiro SASHIHARA, Mineo HASEGAWA, Toshiro IZUCHI, Hiroshi ITO and Toshihiro ITO...... 32

Epidemiology

  • Epidemiology of Salmonella Enteritidis Isolates from Chicken Meat Depend on Molecular Analysis......Harue KITAZUME, Yuko MATSUMOTO, Yukiko ISHIGURO, Mikiko YAMADA, Tetsunori MUTO and Hidemasa IZUMIYA...... 36

Book Review

  • Yoichi KAMATA...... 42

Information...... 44
Notes to Contributors...... 47