Nahid Rahimifard - Department of Microbiology, Food and Drug Control Laboratories(FDCL), Food And Drug Laboratories Research Center(FDLRC); Ministry of Health(MOH), Iran- PhD, Associate Professor in Microbiology; Doctorate in Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Sciences

During the last decades, the prevalence of foodborne diseases due to contaminated food as well as demand for natural and healthy foods has increased. Standard methods or Gold standard methods in Microbiology laboratory are still the routine culture methods. Rapid diagnostic in food microbiological control laboratories for this purpose and for inhibiting growth of food pathogens is an interesting topic.Some instrumental new methods such as TEMPO, Scan RDI AES, Mycometer, 3M molecular detection assay, BAX, Bio Tecon Diagnostics (Real time PCR), Solus, Gene Quence, VIDAS(Vitec2), Duopath Merck, Sylab s, Riboflow, Neogen,Remel.have been replaced with the routine methods due to having high analytical characteristics of assays such as sensitivity, specificity, precision, accuracy and uncertainty beside of the feasibility and time consuming.So Microbiology laboratory major changes won t be avoidable in the near future and we should accept this real necessity.

Microbiology laboratory, food control, future