Abstract:In recent years， food borne disease has become the world's most outstanding and widely problems in food safety currently. Pathogens can lead to food borne disease. The existing detection methods for the pathogens which lead to food borne disease can not meet the requirements of the fast， accurate and the high flux. There is an urgent need to develop a rapid and accurate method to detect food borne pathogens. Firstly， the paper intro－ duced the principle of the suspension array technology； secondly， the characteristic of the suspension array technology has been summarized； thirdly， it was focused on the application of this technology in the detection of food borne pathogens； at the same time the technical problems that may occur in the process of detection of food borne pathogens were pointed out； finally， the application of this technology was prospected； it had great impor－tance to control the occurrence of food poisoning effectively and the food safety， the customs import and export inspection and the clinical diagnosis， etc.