Nucleic acid-based rapid methods for the detection of foodborne pathogens

Abstract

Food safety is critical to people's health and even life. However, food safety incidents always emerge unexpectedly. This paper is divided into two parts. First, we introduced the common foodborne pathogens causing food pollution. After that, we reviewed nucleic acid-based rapid methods such as conventional PCR, NASBA, LAMP, RPA, and Microarray. Finally, existed problems and future improvement measures are proposed in order to make food detection more convenient and efficient in the future.