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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. Xenobiotics affect the mammary organoid proteome [Environmental Sciences]

    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    • Common environmental contaminants such as bisphenols and phthalates and persistent contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls are thought to influence tissue homeostasis and carcinogenesis by acting as disrupters of endocrine function. In this study we investigated the direct effects of exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), mono-n-butyl phthalate (Pht), and polychlorinated biphenyl...

      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Application of Electronic Nose for Measuring Total Volatile Basic Nitrogen and Total Viable Counts in Packaged Pork During Refrigerated Storage

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

  3. Are Biometric Parameters Helpful to Assess the Health Risk of Consuming Organochlorine Compounds Contaminated Silver European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)?

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Microbial Decontamination of Dried Alaska Pollock Shreds Using Corona Discharge Plasma Jet: Effects on Physicochemical and Sensory Characteristics

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  5. Evaluation of Prerequisite Programs Implementation and Hygiene Practices at Social Food Services through Audits and Microbiological Surveillance

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Influence of Mycotoxin Binders on the Oral Bioavailabilityof Doxycycline in Pigs

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Mycotoxin binders are feed additives that aim to adsorb mycotoxins in the gastrointestinal tract of animals, making them unavailable for systemic absorption. The antimicrobial drug doxycycline (DOX) is often used in pigs and is administered through feed or drinking water; hence, DOX can come in contact with mycotoxin binders in the gastrointestinal tract. This paper describes the effect of four mycotoxin binders on the absorption of orally administered DOX in pigs.

  7. Presence of Multidrug-Resistant Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli, Enteropathogenic E. coli and Enterotoxigenic E. coli, on Raw Nopalitos (Opuntia ficus-indica L.) and in Nopalitos Salads from Local Retail Markets in Mexico

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Online Ahead of Print.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. The Antibiofilm Effect of Ginkgo biloba Extract Against Salmonella and Listeria Isolates from Poultry

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Online Ahead of Print.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Salmonella Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Among Dairy Farm Environmental Samples Collected in Texas

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

    • Online Ahead of Print.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Distribution of Salmonella Serovars and Antimicrobial Susceptibility from Poultry and Swine Farms in Central Vietnam

    • Zoonoses and Public Health

    • Summary

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Toxins, Vol. 8, Pages 67: Perfringolysin O Theta Toxin as a Tool to Monitor the Distribution and Inhomogeneity of Cholesterol in Cellular Membranes

    • Toxins

    • Cholesterol is an essential structural component of cellular membranes in eukaryotes. Cholesterol in the exofacial leaflet of the plasma membrane is thought to form membrane nanodomains with sphingolipids and specific proteins. Additionally, cholesterol is found in the intracellular membranes of endosomes and has crucial functions in membrane trafficking.

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Autoinducer-2 properties of kimchi are associated with lactic acid bacteria involved in its fermentation

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: Available online 7 March 2016


      Author(s): Hyunjoon Park, Heuynkil Shin, Kyuyeon Lee, Wilhelm Holzapfel

  13. Temperature Sensitivity Conferred by ligA Alleles from Psychrophilic Bacteria upon Substitution in Mesophilic Bacteria and a Yeast Species [Biotechnology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • We have assembled a collection of 13 psychrophilic ligA alleles that can serve as genetic elements for engineering mesophiles to a temperature-sensitive (TS) phenotype. When these ligA alleles were substituted into Francisella novicida, they conferred a TS phenotype with restrictive temperatures between 33 and 39°C. When the F. novicida ligA hybrid strains were plated above their restrictive temperatures, eight of them generated temperature-resistant variants.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. Functions of VPA1418 and VPA0305 Catalase Genes in Growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus under Oxidative Stress [Physiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The marine foodborne enteropathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus has four putative catalase genes. The functions of two katE-homologous genes, katE1 (VPA1418) and katE2 (VPA0305), in the growth of this bacterium were examined using gene deletion mutants with or without complementary genes.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Evaluation of Ultrasound-Induced Damage to Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus by Flow Cytometry and Transmission Electron Microscopy [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • As a nonthermal sterilization technique, ultrasound has attracted great interest in the field of food preservation. In this study, flow cytometry and transmission electron microscopy were employed to investigate ultrasound-induced damage to Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. The Bacteriome of Bat Flies (Nycteribiidae) from the Malagasy Region: a Community Shaped by Host Ecology, Bacterial Transmission Mode, and Host-Vector Specificity [Invertebrate Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The Nycteribiidae are obligate blood-sucking Diptera (Hippoboscoidea) flies that parasitize bats. Depending on species, these wingless flies exhibit either high specialism or generalism toward their hosts, which may in turn have important consequences in terms of their associated microbial community structure. Bats have been hypothesized to be reservoirs of numerous infectious agents, some of which have recently emerged in human populations.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Effects of Cover Crop Species and Season on Population Dynamics of Escherichia coli and Listeria innocua in Soil [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Cover crops provide several ecosystem services, but their impact on enteric bacterial survival remains unexplored. The influence of cover cropping on foodborne pathogen indicator bacteria was assessed in five cover crop/green manure systems: cereal rye, hairy vetch, crimson clover, hairy vetch-rye and crimson clover-rye mixtures, and bare ground.

      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Dividing the Large Glycoside Hydrolase Family 43 into Subfamilies: a Motivation for Detailed Enzyme Characterization [Enzymology and Protein Engineering]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The rapid rise in DNA sequencing has led to an expansion in the number of glycoside hydrolase (GH) families. The GH43 family currently contains α-l-arabinofuranosidase, β-d-xylosidase, α-l-arabinanase, and β-d-galactosidase enzymes for the debranching and degradation of hemicellulose and pectin polymers. Many studies have revealed finer details about members of GH43 that necessitate the division of GH43 into subfamilies, as was done previously for the GH5 and GH13 families.

      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Quantification of Nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum Spore Loads in Food Materials [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • We have produced data and developed analysis to build representations for the concentration of spores of nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum in materials that are used during the manufacture of minimally processed chilled foods in the United Kingdom. Food materials are categorized into homogenous groups which include meat, fish, shellfish, cereals, fresh plant material, dairy liquid, dairy nonliquid, mushroom and fungi, and dried herbs and spices.

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Bacterial pathogens

  20. Assessing the growth of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella in spinach, lettuce, parsley and chard extracts at different storage temperatures

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      Aims

      The objective of this work was to study the growth potential of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. in leafy vegetable extracts at different temperature conditions.

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Effect of dietary protein sources on the small intestine microbiome of weaned piglets based on high-throughput sequencing

    • Letters in Applied Microbiology

    • Abstract

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. A spectral-mathematical strategy for the identification of edible and swill-cooked dirty oils using terahertz spectroscopy

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: September 2016
      , Volume 67

      Author(s): Honglei Zhan, Jianfeng Xi, Kun Zhao, Rima Bao, Lizhi Xiao

  23. Shelf life of fresh meat products under LED or fluorescent lighting

    • Meat Science

    • Publication date: July 2016
      , Volume 117

      Author(s): K.S. Steele, M.J. Weber, E.A.E. Boyle, M.C. Hunt, A.S. Lobaton-Sulabo, C. Cundith, Y.H. Hiebert, K.A. Abrolat, J.M. Attey, S.D. Clark, D.E. Johnson, T.L. Roenbaugh

      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Emulsion stabilized with phytoglycogen octenyl succinate prolongs the antimicrobial efficacy of ε-poly-l-lysine against Escherichia coli O157:H7

    • LWT

    • Publication date: July 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 70

      Author(s): Lin Bi, Lei Yang, Arun K. Bhunia, Yuan Yao

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  25. Yersinia enterocolitica Affects Intestinal Barrier Function in the Colon

    • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

    • Infection with Yersinia enterocolitica causes acute diarrhea in early childhood. A mouse infection model presents new findings on pathological mechanisms in the colon. Symptoms involve diarrhea with watery feces and weight loss that have their functional correlates in decreased transepithelial electrical resistance and increased fluorescein permeability. Y. enterocolitica was present within the murine mucosa of both ileum and colon.

      • Yersinia
      • Bacterial pathogens