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Research Publications (Food Safety)

This page tracks research articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Recent articles are available ahead of print and searchable by Journal, Article Title, and Category. Research publications are tracked across six categories: Bacterial Pathogens, Chemical Contaminants, Natural Toxins, Parasites, Produce Safety, and Viruses. Articles produced by USDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) and FDA Grant Funding Agencies (requires login) are also tracked in Scopus.

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  1. Antimicrobial efficacy of vacuum impregnation washing with malic acid applied to whole paprika, carrots, king oyster mushrooms and muskmelons

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: December 2017
      , Volume 82

      Author(s): Jun-Won Kang, Dong-Hyun Kang

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Aflatoxin M1 contamination in raw milk from major milk-producing areas of China during four seasons of 2016

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: December 2017
      , Volume 82

      Author(s): Songli Li, Li Min, Pengpeng Wang, Yangdong Zhang, Nan Zheng, Jiaqi Wang

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  3. Internalization of Listeria monocytogenes in cantaloupes during dump tank washing and hydrocooling

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 18 September 2017
      , Volume 257

      Author(s): Dumitru Macarisin, Anna Wooten, Antonio De Jesus, Minji Hur, Seonjae Bae, Jitendra Patel, Peter Evans, Eric Brown, Thomas Hammack, Yi Chen

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Multiple substrate usage of Coxiella burnetii to feed a bipartite-type metabolic network

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Ina Häuslein, Franck Cantet, Sarah Reschke, Fan Chen, Matteo Bonazzi, Wolfgang Eisenreich

      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Cadmium Accumulation Risk in Vegetables and Rice inSouthern China: Insights from Solid-Solution Partitioning and PlantUptake Factor

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Solid-solution partitioning coefficient (Kd) and plant uptake factor (PUF) largely determine the solubility and mobility of soil Cd to food crops. A four-year regional investigation was conducted in contaminated vegetable and paddy fields of southern China to quantify the variability in Kd and PUF. The distributions of Kd and PUF characterizing transfers of Cd from soil to vegetable and rice are probabilistic in nature. Dynamics in soil pH and soil Zn greatly affected the variations of Kd.

  6. Cadmium Accumulation Risk in Vegetables and Rice in Southern China: Insights from Solid-Solution Partitioning and Plant Uptake Factor

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O22:H8 isolated from cattle reduces E. coli O157:H7 adherence in vitro and in vivo

    • Veterinary Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 29 June 2017


      Author(s): L. Martorelli, A. Albanese, D. Vilte, R. Cantet, A. Bentancor, G. Zolezzi, I. Chinen, C. Ibarra, M. Rivas, E.C. Mercado, A. Cataldi

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Mucus-Activatable Shiga Toxin Genotype stx2d in Escherichia coli O157:H7

    • Emerging Infectious Diseases

    • We identified the mucus-activatable Shiga toxin genotype stx2d in the most common hemolytic uremic syndrome–associated Escherichia coli serotype, O157:H7. stx2d was detected in a strain isolated from a 2-year-old boy with bloody diarrhea in Spain, and whole-genome sequencing was used to confirm and fully characterize the strain.

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 207: Occurrence of Regulated Mycotoxins and Other Microbial Metabolites in Dried Cassava Products from Nigeria

    • Toxins

    • Dried cassava products are perceived as one of the potential sources of mycotoxin ingestion in human foods. Processing either contributes to the reduction of toxins or further exposes products to contamination by microorganisms that release metabolic toxins into the products. Thus, the prevalence of microbial metabolites in 373 processed cassava products was investigated in Nigeria.

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  10. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 205: Biooxidation of Ciguatoxins Leads to Species-Specific Toxin Profiles

    • Toxins

    • Ciguatoxins (CTXs) contaminate fish worldwide and cause the foodborne illness ciguatera. In the Pacific, these toxins are produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, which accumulates in fish through the food chain and undergoes oxidative modification, giving rise to numerous analogs.

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins

  11. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 203: Study on the Association among Mycotoxins and other Variables in Children with Autism

    • Toxins

    • Environmental factors and genetic susceptibility are implicated in the increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Mycotoxins are agricultural contaminants of fungal origin that represent real risk factors for human health and especially for children. Thus, the main hypothesis of this work is that the deterioration of the clinical manifestation of autism in children may result from the exposure to mycotoxins through the consumption of contaminated food.

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 206: Development and Validation of a Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method Coupled with Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction for Simultaneous Quantification of Eight Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins in Shellfish

    • Toxins

    • In this study, a high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method was developed for simultaneous determination of eight paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins, including saxitoxin (STX), neosaxitoxin (NEO), gonyautoxins (GTX1–4) and the N-sulfo carbamoyl toxins C1 and C2, in sea shellfish.

      • Shellfish toxins

  13. Thermal resistance of vegetative thermophilic spore forming bacilli in skim milk isolated from dairy environments

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: December 2017
      , Volume 82

      Author(s): Carolin Reich, Mareike Wenning, Anna Dettling, Kristiane E. Luma, Siegfried Scherer, Jörg Hinrichs

  14. Tracking of Listeria monocytogenes in meat establishment using Whole Genome Sequencing as a food safety management tool: A proof of concept

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 18 September 2017
      , Volume 257

      Author(s): Ivan Nastasijevic, Dubravka Milanov, Branko Velebit, Vesna Djordjevic, Craig Swift, Anais Painset, Brankica Lakicevic

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Microbial community profiling of fresh basil and pitfalls in taxonomic assignment of enterobacterial pathogenic species based upon 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 18 September 2017
      , Volume 257

      Author(s): Siele Ceuppens, Dieter De Coninck, Nadine Bottledoorn, Filip Van Nieuwerburgh, Mieke Uyttendaele

      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Comparison of Immunomagnetic Separation Beads for Detection of Six Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli serogroups in Different Matrices

    • Letters in Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Thioredoxin A Is Essential for Motility and Contributes to Host Infection of Listeria monocytogenes via Redox Interactions

    • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

    • Changyong Cheng, Zhimei Dong, Xiao Han, Hang Wang, Li Jiang, Jing Sun, Yongchun Yang, Tiantian Ma, Chunyan Shao, Xiaodu Wang, Zhongwei Chen, Weihuan Fang, Nancy E. Freitag, Huarong Huang, Houhui Song

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 202: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Enhances the Proinflammatory Effects of Staphylococcus aureus Gamma-Toxin on the Mucosa

    • Toxins

    • Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) produces many different exotoxins including the gamma-toxins, HlgAB and HlgCB. Gamma-toxins form pores in both leukocyte and erythrocyte membranes, resulting in cell lysis. The genes encoding gamma-toxins are present in most strains of S. aureus, and are commonly expressed in clinical isolates recovered from menstrual Toxic Shock Syndrome (mTSS) patients.

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Health risk assessment of heavy metals via dietary intake of five pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) cultivars collected from different geographical sites of Iran

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: September 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 107, Part A

      Author(s): Seyedeh Faezeh Taghizadeh, Gholamhossein Davarynejad, Javad Asili, Seyed Hossein Nemati, Ramin Rezaee, Marina Goumenou, Aristides M. Tsatsakis, Gholamreza Karimi

  20. Deubiquitinating enzyme VCIP135 dictates the duration of botulinum neurotoxin type A intoxication [Cell Biology]

    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    • Botulism is characterized by flaccid paralysis, which can be caused by intoxication with any of the seven known serotypes of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), all of which disrupt synaptic transmission by endoproteolytic cleavage of SNARE proteins. BoNT serotype A (BoNT/A) has the most prolonged or persistent effects, which can last several...

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. First report of an E. coli strain from swine carrying an OXA-181-carbapenemase and colistin resistance determinant MCR-1

    • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

    • Publication date: Available online 27 June 2017


      Author(s): Sandra Pulss, Torsten Semmler, Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff, Rolf Bauerfeind, Christa Ewers

      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Proposed Biotransformation Pathways for New Metabolitesof Paralytic Shellfish Toxins Based on Field and Experimental MusselSamples

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • A seafood poisoning event occurred in Qinhuangdao, China, in April 2016. Subsequently, the causative mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) were harvested and analyzed to reveal a high concentration [∼10 758 μg of saxitoxin (STX) equiv kg–1] of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), including gonyautoxin (GTX)1/4 and GTX2/3, as well as new metabolites 11-hydroxy-STX (M2), 11,11-dihydroxy-STX (M4), open-ring 11,11-dihydroxy-STX (M6), 11-hydroxy-neosaxitoxin (NEO) (M8), and 11,11-dihydroxy-NEO (M10).

      • Shellfish toxins

  23. Proposed Biotransformation Pathways for New Metabolites of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins Based on Field and Experimental Mussel Samples

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Natural toxins

  24. European Union proficiency tests for pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables from 2009 to 2016: Overview of the results and main achievements

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: December 2017
      , Volume 82

      Author(s): Carmen Ferrer, Ana Lozano, Samanta Uclés, Antonio Valverde, Amadeo R. Fernández-Alba

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  25. On-package dual sensors label based on pH indicators for real-time monitoring of beef freshness

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: December 2017
      , Volume 82

      Author(s): Bambang Kuswandi, Arjun Nurfawaidi