Springer

Food And Environmental Virology

(ISSN 1867-0342)

Food and Environmental Virology publishes original articles, notes and review articles on any aspect relating to the transmission of pathogenic viruses via the environment (water, air, soil etc.) and foods. This includes epidemiological studies, identification of novel or emerging pathogens, methods of analysis or characterisation, studies on survival and elimination, and development of procedural controls for industrial processes, e.g. HACCP plans. The journal will cover all aspects of this important area, and encompass studies on any human, animal, and plant pathogenic virus which is capable of transmission via the environment or food.

Principal subject areas can be classed into four categories, as follows.

Current and Emerging Issues, for example:

Outbreak descriptions

Epidemiology

Elucidation of routes of transmission

Environmental transmission of non-enteric viruses

Novel and / or emerging viruses, including zoonotic viruses

Viruses in water treatment plants

Analytical Methods, for example:

Detection methods for waterborne viruses

Detection methods for foodborne viruses

Detection methods for airborne viruses

New methods for sample treatment

Validation of methods

Application of methods (e.g. virus prevalence in food and the environment)

Data Analysis, for example:

New systems

Risk Assessment

Modular process risk models

Control of viruses, for example:

Structural stability of viruses

Survival in the environment and foods

Transport of viruses through soils

Elimination procedures for food and environmental application

Evaluation of current and novel industrial disinfection processes

Procedural controls, e.g. HACCP

Personal protective efforts, e.g. hand hygiene, and antisepsis