Bacteriophages are viruses that only infect bacterial cells. Phages are categorized based on the type of their life cycle, the lytic cycle cause lysis of the bacterium with the release of multiple phage particles where as in lysogenic phase the phage DNA is incorporated into the bacterial genome. Lysogeny does not result in lysis of the host. Lytic phages have several potential applications in the food industry as biocontrol agents, biopreservatives and as tools for detecting pathogens. They have also been proposed as alternatives to antibiotics in animal health. Two unique features of phage relevant for food safety are that they are harmless to mammalian cells and high host specificity, keeping the natural microbiota undisturbed. However, the recent approval of bacteriophages as food additives has opened the discussion about 'edible viruses'. This article reviews in detail the application of phages for the control of foodborne pathogens in a process known as Bbiocontrol^.

Automation has gained universal popularity these days. This paper lays emphasis on a web-based department automation system which is currently under development process and is primarily aimed at keeping track of faculty details and records. Also, another fundamental aspect considered is the reduction of overall paperwork involved. The application is designed at providing systematic, well planned and well organized working environment for the faculty of institution. Concept of modern-day technologies like data mining and web technology are the understructure of the system. The system focuses at overcoming the drawback of existing method by reducing errors and mistakes in record keeping as data is stored digitally. Computation of queries is processed swiftly to fetch data from a massive database. The application is designed using Eclipse (kepler version), Apache Tomcat server 7.0 along with wamp server to host the database locally. J2EE, JSP along with Html have been used for designing the user interface whereas MySQL database is used for storing data.

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