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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. New Insights into the Genetic Diversity of Clostridium botulinum Group III through Extensive Genome Exploration

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Cédric Woudstra, Caroline Le Maréchal, Rozenn Souillard, Marie-Hélène Bayon-Auboyer, Isabelle Mermoud, Denise Desoutter, Patrick Fach

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  2. Introducing the Food Fraud Initial Screening model (FFIS)

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): John Spink, Douglas C. Moyer, Cheri Speier-Pero

  3. Prevalence and cost of on-farm produce safety measures in the Mid-Atlantic

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016, Volume 69 Author(s): Erik Lichtenberg, Elina Tselepidakis Page We use data from a survey of leafy green and tomato growers in the Mid-Atlantic region to investigate the prevalence and cost of produce safety practices required under the Produce Rule of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Majorities of our respondents currently employ most of the food safety practices that will be required under the Produce Rule.

  4. A Comprehensive Evaluation of NIPAM Polymer Gel Dosimeters on Three Orthogonal Planes and Temporal Stability Analysis

    • PLOS ONE

    • Kai-Yuan Cheng, Ling-Ling Hsieh, Cheng-Ting Shih

      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Detection of foodborne bacterial zoonoses by fluorescence in situ hybridization

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): Alexander Rohde, Jens Andre Hammerl, Sascha Al Dahouk

      • Campylobacter
      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Effects of thermal treatment combined with multi-cycle high pressure processing on the bacterial diversity of mud snail (Bullacta exarata) during refrigerated storage

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): Liping Wang, Peng Huang, Yunfei Li

  7. Recovery and Growth Potential of Listeria monocytogenes in Temperature Abused Milkshakes Prepared from Naturally Contaminated Ice Cream Linked to a Listeriosis Outbreak

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Yi Chen, Emma Allard, Anna Wooten, Minji Hur, Ishani Sheth, Anna Laasri, Thomas S. Hammack, Dumitru Macarisin

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. The Resistance of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor Strains to the Typing Phage 919TP, a Member of K139 Phage Family

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Xiaona Shen, Jingyun Zhang, Jialiang Xu, Pengcheng Du, Bo Pang, Jie Li, Biao Kan

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Toxins, Vol. 8, Pages 157: Comparison of Droplet Digital PCR and qPCR for the Quantification of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Bovine Feces

    • Toxins

    • Cattle are considered to be the main reservoir for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and are often the direct or indirect source of STEC outbreaks in humans. Accurate measurement of the concentration of shed STEC in cattle feces could be a key answer to questions concerning transmission of STEC, contamination sources and efficiency of treatments at farm level.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Prevalence of Bovine Mastitis Pathogens in Bulk Tank Milk in China

    • PLOS ONE

    • Yanliang Bi, Ya Jing Wang, Yun Qin, Roger Guix Vallverdú, Jaime Maldonado García, Wei Sun, Shengli Li, Zhijun Cao

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Methylmercury Concentration in Fish and Risk-Benefit Assessment of Fish Intake among Pregnant versus Infertile Women in Taiwan

    • PLOS ONE

    • Hsing-Cheng Hsi, You-Wen Hsu, Tien-Chin Chang, Ling-Chu Chien

      • Chemical contaminants

  12. Listeria bacteriocin favors infection [Microbiology]

    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    • Listeria monocytogenes is responsible for gastroenteritis in healthy individuals and for a severe invasive disease in immunocompromised patients. Among the three identified L. monocytogenes evolutionary lineages, lineage I strains are overrepresented in epidemic listeriosis outbreaks, but the mechanisms underlying the higher virulence potential of strains of this lineage remain elusive....

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Identification and measurement of staphylococcal enterotoxin like protein I (SEll) secretion from staphylococcus aureus clinical isolate

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Absract

      Aims

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Food Safety in Thailand 3: Pesticide Residues detected in Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana L.), Queen of Fruits

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

    • Abstract

      Background

      For developing countries like Thailand, regulation of pesticide usage exists but is not fully enforced. Therefore, pesticide residues in vegetables and fruits have not been well monitored. This study aimed to determine the pesticide residues in mangosteen fruits sold in Thailand. The mangosteen samples (n = 111) were purchased and the content of 28 pesticides were analyzed by GC-MS/MS method.

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Occurrence of aflatoxin contamination in maize throughout the supply chain in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): I. Kamika, Koto-te-Nyiwa Ngbolua, M. Tekere

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  16. Qualitative risk assessment of introduction of anisakid larvae in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farms and commercialization of products infected with viable nematodes

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): Matteo Crotta, Nicola Ferrari, Javier Guitian

  17. Opportunities and limitations for the production of safe fermented meats without nitrate and nitrite using an antibacterial Staphylococcus sciuri starter culture

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): María Sánchez Mainar, Ramize Xhaferi, Simbarashe Samapundo, Frank Devlieghere, Frédéric Leroy

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Screening of antibiotic residues in pork meat in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, using a microbiological test kit and liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): Mai Hoang Ngoc Do, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Masahiro Okihashi, Kazuo Harada, Yoshimasa Konishi, Kotaro Uchida, Long Thi Bui, Thinh Duc Nguyen, Ha Bich Phan, Huong Dang Thien Bui, Phuc Do Nguyen, Keiji Kajimura, Yuko Kumeda, Chinh Van Dang, Kazumasa Hirata, Yoshimasa Yamamoto

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Preparation of low- and medium-molecular weight chitosan nanoparticles and their antimicrobial evaluation against a panel of microorganisms, including cheese-derived cultures

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): Karen A.M. O'Callaghan, Joseph P. Kerry

  20. Residue behavior and processing factors of eight pesticides during the production of sorghum distilled spirits

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2016
      , Volume 69

      Author(s): Yongtao Han, Shaowen Liu, Juan Yang, Zezhi Zhong, Nan Zou, Le Song, Xuesong Zhang, Xuesheng Li, Canping Pan

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Expression Regulation of Polycistronic lee3 Genes of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli

    • PLOS ONE

    • Wei-Sheng W. Sun, Jenn-Wei Chen, Yi-Chih Wu, Hsing-Yuan Tsai, Yu-Liang Kuo, Wan-Jr Syu

      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Macropinosomes are Key Players in Early Shigella Invasion and Vacuolar Escape in Epithelial Cells

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • Allon Weiner, Nora Mellouk, Noelia Lopez-Montero, Yuen-Yan Chang, Célia Souque, Christine Schmitt, Jost Enninga

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  23. Monitoring of Antibiotic Residues in Aquatic Productsin Urban and Rural Areas of Vietnam

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Antibiotic residues in aquatic products in Vietnam were investigated. A total of 511 fish and shrimp samples were collected from markets in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Thai Binh (TB), and Nha Trang (NT) from July 2013 to October 2015. The samples were extracted with 2% formic acid in acetonitrile and washed with dispersive C18 sorbent. Thirty-two antibiotics were analyzed by LC-MS/MS. Of the 362 samples from HCMC, antibiotic residues were found in 53 samples.

      • Antibiotic residues

  24. Monitoring of Antibiotic Residues in Aquatic Products in Urban and Rural Areas of Vietnam

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Chemical contaminants

  25. Identification of a lipoteichoic acid glycosyltransferase enzyme reveals that GW-domain containing proteins can be retained in the cell wall of Listeria monocytogenes in the absence of lipoteichoic acid or its modifications

    • Journal of Bacteriology

    • Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne Gram-positive bacterial pathogen and many of its virulence factors are either secreted proteins, or proteins covalently or non-covalently-attached to the cell wall. Previous work has indicated that non-covalently-attached proteins with GW domains are retained in the cell wall by binding to the cell wall polymer lipoteichoic acid (LTA). LTA is a glycerolphosphate polymer, which is modified in L. monocytogenes with galactose and D-alanine residues.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens