0973-7510 Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2581-690X DR. M.N. Khan 10.22207/JPAM.16.1.24 Food Safety Control Measures to Address Emerging Omicron SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Shahbaz Muhammad Bilal Muhammad Iqbal Hafiz M.N. Mawarid Food Company, Al Wizarat, Riyadh 12622, Saudi Arabia. School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian 223003, China. Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, 64849, Mexico. 10 02 2022 16 1 01 02 Copyright © 2022 The Author(s) 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/