Originals

• Relationship between Detection of Thermostable Direct Hemolysin Gene-Positive Vibrio parahaemolyticus from Environmental Samples and Food, and V. parahaemolytics Infection in a Particular District of Akita Prefecture, Japan......Jun YATSUYANAGI, Shioko SATIO, Takayuki KONNO, Seizaburo HARATA and Noriyuki SUZUKI...... 1
• Purification of Glucose Oxidase and Catalase Produced by the Apple Blue Mold, Penicillium expansum O-385-10, and Their Characteristics Including the Browning of Apple Fruit......Hyun-Woong KIM, Soichiro KIMURA, Nobuko OHNO, Miho OKADOME, Haruo TAKAHASHI, Seigo AMACHI, Hirofumi SHINOYAMA and Takaaki FUJII...... 10
• Detection of Listeria monocytogenes in Natural Cheese by Enzyme-Linked Fluorescent Assay......Fumihiko SAKAI, Kenji AOYAMA, Eiko SHINOZAWA, Hisashi YAMAGATA, Tsutomu MARUYAMA, Shizunobu IGIMI and Shuichi YANAHIRA...... 17

Epidemiology

• Food Complaints by Fungal Contamination in Tokyo for Recent 16 Years (1987-2002)......Hiroshi FUJIKAWA, Tomoaki WAUKE and Satoshi MOROZUMI...... 24

Note

• Recent Development of Food Safety Risk Analysis for Microorganisms and Others in the USA......Ryusuke MATSUOKA...... 29

Book Reviews

• Takeshi ITO...... 38
• Kouji YAMAZAKI...... 39
• Kazunobu AMAKO...... 40

• Proceeding of the Society...... 41
• Information...... 49
• Notes to Contributors...... 51