Our food safety is susceptible to micro-organisms. Today, we are aware of a wide range of pathogenic bacteria that may be found in various types of food. Simultaneously, we experience an increasing number of food poisoning caused by more exotic bacteria due to our new and modern eating habits. This is a prevalent problem in the Western world that requires extra attention from the food industry and that can only be solved by full exploitation of existing knowledge of micro-organisms and development of new methods. The Danish Technology Institute offers detection and identification of bacteria through traditional cultivation of bacteria and molecular biological analyses.