Directory of Experts
Details for Dr Janet Corry
| Personal details | |||||||
| Name | Dr Janet Corry | ||||||
| Job title | Reader in Research - Food Microbiology Visiting Fellow |
||||||
| Department | Farm Animal Science University of Bristol School of Veterinary Sciences University of Bristol |
||||||
| Work contact details |
|
||||||
| Qualifications | BSc(R'dg), MSc(Bristol), PhD(Sur), MIBiol/CBiol, FIFST | ||||||
| Professional details | |||||||
| Membership of professional bodies | Society for Applied Microbiology Society for General Microbiology Institute of Food Science and Technology Society of Veterinary Public Health |
||||||
| Keywords | food microbiology |
||||||
| Areas of expertise | I have extensive experience of most aspects of food microbiology - food-borne disease and food spoilage, methods of food preservation and methods of detecting pathogens and spoilage microbes in food. I'm currently most interested in two main areas: 1 the control of 'blown pack' spoilage of vacuum-packaged raw red meat due to cold-tolerant clostridia, especially Clostridium estertheticum; 2 Campylobacter causes >60,000 cases of diarrhoea every year in the UK, mostly via contaminated chicken meat. I am interested in: A the control of campylobacter colonisation of chickens on broiler farms; B the mechanism of campylobacter contamination from bird to carcass in the processing plant, and methods (physical or chemical) of decontaminating poultry carcasses; C methods of detecting campylobacters in food and the environment. |
||||||
| Media experience | Occasional intervews for radio and tv. Most recently on BBC radio Bristol on food waste, BBC radio 4 'In living memory' concerning the Moorgate disaster (postmortem ethanol production), and Farming Today on Campylobacter. |
||||||