Ioanna Georgopoulou

INTRODUCTIONCampylobacter spp. is well recognized as the leading cause of bacterial foodborne diarrheal disease and poses a serious economical and health risk globally (Skanseng et al., 2010; Silva et al., 2011; Meunier et al., 2015). The most common route of campylobacteriosis infection in humans is the handling or consumption of contaminated poultry meat (Lee and Newell, 2006). Campylobacter spp ...

1. IntroductionWhey is the valuable by-product of the cheesemaking process resulting after the production of cheese, whey cheese or casein from milk. It represents 90% of the volume and 50% of the solids of milk and it is characterized by its high concentrations of water, lactose and sodium [1,2].Whey disposal is problematic, due to its high organic matter content and resultant high biological oxy ...