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Food-borne diseases are still one of the primary causes of human death worldwide. Tracking pathogens in food and feed remains the priority for all the actors of food chain. This includes traditional methods of analysis based on bacteria enrichment with incubation and colony counting on Petri dishes, as well as new rapid tests (such as RT-PCR and microbial identification assays (MALDI-TOF, and DNA Sequencing) to trace genus and species of many organisms.