Dr. Evangelia Komitopoulou

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Ingredients supplement 2012

Natural and artificial sweeteners – what are the health issues?…

8 November 2012 | By Sandra Caldeira / Petros Maragkoudakis / Dr Evangelia Komitopoulou

Natural and artificial sweeteners – what are the health issues? (Sandra Caldeira - Project Manager, Nutrition and Health, IHCP, European Commission / Petros Maragkoudakis - Scientific/Technical Project Officer, Nutrition and Health, IHCP, European Commission)Available in vitro methodologies for prebiotic and probiotic functionality (Dr Evangelia Komitopoulou - Head of Food Safety,…

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Microbial biofilms – a concern for industry?

Many bacteria are able to attach to and colonise environmental…

3 July 2012 | By Dr Evangelia Komitopoulou, Head of Food Safety, Leatherhead Food Research

Many bacteria are able to attach to and colonise environmental surfaces by producing a biofilm, which allows the organisms to persist in the environment and resist desiccation, UV light and treatment with antimicrobials and sanitising agents. Biofilms are formed when microbes attach to a solid support and to each other…

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Overview of food preservation technologies

The control of microbial access and growth in foods from…

13 May 2011 | By Dr Paul Gibbs & Dr Evangelia Komitopoulou, Food Safety, Leatherhead Food Research

The control of microbial access and growth in foods from ‘farm to fork’ is important to ensure consumer health and well-being and minimise losses of foods through spoilage. Whilst it seems almost impossible to achieve a good and consistently hygienic production of raw materials, there are many different ways of…