Quorum sensing: How bacteria communicate
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The understanding of bacterial cell-to-cell communication can reduce foodborne disease and retard food spoilage. Microbial populations influences almost every aspects of human and animal life, as microorganisms exist almost everywhere. To function effectively within the diverse environments, bacterial communities have developed very sophisticated means of sensing their local environment. The need to understand the relationship that exist between the food ingredients, food processing, handling, food consumption methods and the cell signaling based microbial activity of pathogen and spoilage bacteria is important in formulating the next generation of foods, which are microbiologically safe and have extended shelf life.