Food and Agricultural Immunology is an international open access journal publishing immunological research with applications in food, agricultural, environmental and veterinary science.

Food and Agricultural Immunology aims to expand our understanding of the interactions at the interface of food and immune systems. It is essential reading for food scientists, immunologists and all those concerned with the interaction between food and immune systems.

Food and Agricultural Immunology covers the following topics:

    Development of diagnostic systems – all types of ligand-based assays, e.g. antibody, aptamer
    Application of ligand-based assays for the detection or identification of molecules of interest in food science, agricultural research, veterinary investigations and clinical systems relating to food allergy or sensitivity to agricultural chemicals
    Effects of food on the immune system
    Studies on allergy and allergic reactions and investigations into food allergies
    Development of allergen-free food systems
    Development of novel assay formats
    Applications of assay systems to the monitoring of food items in relation to safety and labelling
    Food quality issues, e.g. speciation, adulteration and contamination
    Comparisons between different analytical techniques and the use of immunological techniques and methods


The journal accepts original research and review articles.

The journal operates a single-anonymized peer review policy. All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.

Editor:     
Professor Chuanlai Xu 
FRSC, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, State Key Lab of Food Science & Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, China. 
Email: Xcl@jiangnan.edu.cn 

Associate Editors 
Dr. Candace Spier Bever - UC Davis, USA 
Prof. Graham Bonwick - Newcastle University, UK. 
Prof. Sergei A. Eremin -Moscow State University, Russia 
Prof. Hua Kuang - Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China 
Prof. Aike Li- Academy of State Administration of Grain, Beijing, China 
Prof. Christopher Smith, FIFST - University of Chester, UK 

International Editorial Board: 
Laura Anfossi - University of Turin, Via Giuria, Italy 
Cath Birch - University of Chester, Chester, UK 
Alasdair J. C. Cook- University of Surrey, Surrey, UK 
Bruce Hammock - University of California, Davis, CA, USA 
Vladimir Jurisic - University of Kragujevac, Serbia 
Alice Lee - University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia  
Hongtao Lei - College of Food Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China 
Xiaonan Lu - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 
Erwin Märtlbauer - Lehrstuhl für Hygiene and Technologie der Milch, Munich, Germany 
Bing Shao - Beijing Center for Diseases prevention and Control, Beijing, China 
Larry Stanker - US Department of Agriculture, College Station, TX, USA 
Zhanhui Wang - China Agricultural University, Beijing, China 
Anatoly V Zherdev - Russian Academy of Sciences, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry，Moscow, Russia