Approval has been given by the USFDA for use of the combination of six bacterial viruses or bacteriophages as a food additive. These bacteriophages are to be used on ready-to-eat meats and poultry to kill strains of listeria monocytogenes prior to their packaging. Listeria monocytogenes can cause infection in pregnant women, infants and those with compromised immune systems. This is a major breakthrough for Phage Therapy because the next step has to be approval for Bacteriophages for humans if it is being used in human’s food. There are still those who worry about long term effects of using phages but I forsee these fears as being groundless as time will tell. When I first started researching Phage Therapy I was finding about one article a month if I was lucky but now I am finding them weekly as the world’s eyes open up. No one sees phages replacing antibiotics completely but they are expected to work along with antibiotics and occasionally where antibiotics fail completely as in the case of VRSA. So here’s to the future of Bacteriophages and kudos for the USFDA approval of them!