The hot-topic studies and the major progress in the field of food microbiology during past thirty years of reform and opening-up in China were reviewed in this paper,including the studies on the unexplained causes and etiology of foodborne diseases,the surveillance of foodborne diseases and foodborne pathogens,microbiological risk assessment,examination and standardization of microbiological technology.Linking with the Food Safety Law issued recently in China,the current trends of setting up limit criteria ...