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Graça Pinto (University of Minho, Portugal) and colleagues published a research article in FEMS Microbiology ecology on the interactions of phage ace and shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli during biocontrol. This work demonstrated that phage Ace is a safe biocontrol agent against STEC contamination and that the emergence of bacteriophage insensitive mutants did not represent a greater risk in environmental persistence and human pathogenicity.