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Nowadays, foodborne outbreaks still affect millions and kill thousands of people despite implementation of food safety management systems and legal obligations in many countries. Foodborne illness also cause large-scale recalls, reduced market demand, and consumers loss of confidence in food products. Food safety and quality are endangered since microbiological contamination by various pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms in production environment. Microorganisms, generally introduced into the food environment through raw materials, pests, air, water, employees, can survive in food processing environments. The combination of microbiological monitoring of both food products and the production environment is critical to ensuring food safety and quality. Environmental monitoring program (EMP) is a monitoring program that allows evaluate the effectiveness of general hygiene practices and control programs to prevent possible microbial contamination of food. In this review, scientific models are given for food sector by combination the EMP methodology and existing research studies in literature.