Abstract:
Bioaerosol monitoring is a rapidly emerging area of industrial hygiene. Microbial roles
in atmospheric processes are thought to be species specific and potentially depend on
cell viability. Accumulating evidence suggests that exposure to bioaerosols may cause
adverse health effects, including disease. Studies of bioaerosols have primarily focused
on chemical composition and biological composition, and the negative effects thereof on
ecosystems and human health have largely gone unnoticed. This gap can be attributed
to international standards on acceptable maximum bioaerosol loads not being uniform
and the lack of uniform standardized methods for collection and analysis of bacterial
and fungal bioaerosols. In this chapter, bioaerosol composition, relevance of bioaerosols
to the food processing facility, sampling and detection approaches, and complications
were discussed.
