Food Safety and Protection focuses on the safety, quality and security aspects of food. Multidisciplinary topics range from microbial risks in food products, food-borne infectious diseases, food allergenicity and food safety, food safety in organic foods, trends and risks associated with food packaging, advanced food packaging systems for enhancing product safety, designing microbiologically safe microwaveable foods using electromagnetic and microbial modeling approaches, development and application of predictive models for food microbiology. In addition, recent developments in food fraud prevention and food laws and regulations are addressed.