This book, developed from the results of the Emerging Technologies for the Food Industry symposium held in Madrid, spotlights recent innovations in food processing technologies. Novel Food Processing Technologies covers a range of food processing treatments that meet current demands for added value and guaranteed safety and contains separate sections dedicated to high pressure, pulsed electric fields, microwave applications, freezing and packaging methods, and predictive microbiology. The authors address a full range of issues related to quality and safety in the food industry and their coverage includes the description of various modeling systems and their impact on food microbiology.