Rob Limburn
Section Lead - Industrial Process Microbiology
Qualifications
- BSc: Microbiology
Latest publications
- Development of low Aw food and environmental decontamination: inactivation kinetics - R&D 422
- Selection of surrogate microorganisms for heat process validation - R&D 410
- Heat resistance determination of Salmonella in low Aw foods - R&D 344
- Fungal forensics: an evaluation of three commercial identification and characterisation systems - R&D 294
About
Rob has worked in Microbiology here within both Methods Research and Industrial Process Microbiology. He has been working in the food industry since 2004 and also has experience in allergens testing and authenticity testing.
Areas of interest
- Food microbiology
- Hygiene testing
- Thermal and non-thermal processing
- Process optimisation
- Microbiological challenge testing
- Aseptic process validation
- Surface decontamination
- Microbial biofilms
- Zonal transfer
- Disinfection
- Low moisture food processing
- Spoilage of heat processed foods
Specific areas of expertise
- Thermal and non-thermal processing
- Microbial inactivation kinetics (thermal and non-thermal)
- Microbiological challenge testing
- Microbial biofilm studies
- Aseptic process validation
- Surface decontamination
- Zonal transfer validation
- Disinfectant efficacy testing
- Aerobiology testing
- Low moisture food process validation
- Heat processed foods – spoilage investigations
Other activities within industry
Committee member for ISO, BSI and ILSI committees