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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. Levels, temporal trend and health risk assessment of five heavy metals in fresh vegetables marketed in Guangdong Province of China during 2014–2017

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2018
      , Volume 92

      Author(s): Hui Liang, Wei-Liang Wu, Yong-Hui Zhang, Shao-Jun Zhou, Chao-Yang Long, Jian Wen, Bo-Yuan Wang, Zhi-Ting Liu, Chao-Zheng Zhang, Pan-Pan Huang, Ning Liu, Xiao-Ling Deng, Fei Zou

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  2. In vitro and ex vivo screening of candidate therapeutics to restore neurotransmission in nerve terminals intoxicated by botulinum neurotoxin serotype A1

    • Toxicon

    • Publication date: 1 June 2018
      Source:, Volume 147

      Author(s): Phillip H. Beske, Aaron B. Bradford, Katie M. Hoffman, Sydney J. Mason, Patrick M. McNutt

      • Clostridium botulinum
      • Heavy Metals
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Detection and quantitative determination of heavy metals in electronic cigarette refill liquids using Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: June 2018
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 116, Part B

      Author(s): Eleni Kamilari, Konstantinos Farsalinos, Konstantinos Poulas, Christos G. Kontoyannis, Malvina G. Orkoula

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  4. Rapid determination of cadmium in rice using an all-solid RGO-enhanced light addressable potentiometric sensor

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 30 September 2018
      , Volume 261

      Author(s): Wen Zhang, Yiwei Xu, Xiaobo Zou

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  5. Classification of trace elements in tissues from organic and conventional French pig production

    • Meat Science

    • Publication date: July 2018
      , Volume 141

      Author(s): Julien Parinet, Eric Royer, Mailie Saint-Hilaire, Claude Chafey, Laurent Noël, Brice Minvielle, Gaud Dervilly-Pinel, Erwan Engel, Thierry Guérin

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  6. Heavy Metal-Induced Expression of PcaA Provides Cadmium Tolerance to Aspergillus fumigatus and Supports Its Virulence in the Galleria mellonella Model

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Fruzsina Bakti, Christoph Sasse, Thorsten Heinekamp, István Pócsi, Gerhard H. Braus

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  7. Modulating the sensing properties of Escherichia coli -based bioreporters for cadmium and mercury

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

    • Abstract

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  8. Dietary exposure to cadmium and health risk assessment in children – Results of the French infant total diet study

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: May 2018
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 115

      Author(s): Julien Jean, Véronique Sirot, Marion Hulin, Emilie Le Calvez, Julie Zinck, Laurent Noël, Paule Vasseur, Fabrice Nesslany, Sébastien Gorecki, Thierry Guérin, Gilles Rivière

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  9. Determination of heavy metal content of processed fruit products from Tehran's market using ICP- OES: A risk assessment study

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 3 April 2018
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Ayub Ebadi Fathabad, Nabi Shariatifar, Mojtaba Moazzen, Shahrokh Nazmara, Yadolah Fakhri, Mahmood Alimohammadi, Ali Azari, Amin Mousavi Khaneghah

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  10. Risk of heavy metal ingestion from the consumption of two commercially valuable species of fish from the fresh and coastal waters of Ghana

    • PLOS ONE

    • Francis Gbogbo, Anna Arthur-Yartel, Josephine A. Bondzie, Winfred-Peck Dorleku, Stephen Dadzie, Bethel Kwansa-Bentum, Julliet Ewool, Maxwell K. Billah, Angela M. Lamptey

      Background

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  11. Method for the determination of Pb, Cd, Zn, Mn and Fe in rice samples using carbon nanotubes and cationic complexes of batophenanthroline

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 30 May 2018
      , Volume 249

      Author(s): Barbara Feist, Rafal Sitko

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  12. Neuroprotective effect of berberine against environmental heavy metals-induced neurotoxicity and Alzheimer's-like disease in rats

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: January 2018
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 111

      Author(s): Hend M. Hussien, Aml Abd-Elmegied, Doaa A. Ghareeb, Hani S. Hafez, Hany E.A. Ahmed, Nehad Abd El-moneam

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  13. Elevated Blood Lead Levels by Length of Time From Resettlement to Health Screening in Kentucky Refugee Children

    • American Journal of Public Health

    • Objectives. To examine elevated blood lead levels (EBLLs) in refugee children by postrelocation duration with control for several covariates.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. The Effects of the Endophytic Bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens Sasm05 and IAA on the Plant Growth and Cadmium Uptake of Sedum alfredii Hance

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Bao Chen, Sha Luo, Yingjie Wu, Jiayuan Ye, Qiong Wang, Xiaomeng Xu, Fengshan Pan, Kiran Y. Khan, Ying Feng, Xiaoe Yang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Predictors of mercury, lead, cadmium and antimony status in Norwegian never-pregnant women of fertile age

    • PLOS ONE

    • Christina Herland Fløtre, Kristin Varsi, Thea Helm, Bjørn Bolann, Anne-Lise Bjørke-Monsen

      Background

      The toxic trace elements mercury (Hg), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and antimony (Sb) are transferred over the placenta to the fetus and secreted into the breastmilk. All four elements bioaccumulate in the body and as maternal age at delivery is increasing in industrialized countries, the burden of toxic trace elements in never-pregnant women of fertile age is of concern.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Discovery of a New Fungicide Candidate through Lead Optimization of Pyrimidinamine Derivatives and Its Activity against Cucumber Downy Mildew

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Transcriptomic analysis on responses of the liver and kidney of finishing pigs feeding cadmium contaminated rice

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

    • Abstract

      BACKGROUND

      Cadmium (Cd) is a common harmful substance that has many deleterious effects on the liver and kidney. Most reports about Cd toxic studies focused on its inorganic status, whereas the toxicity of Cd in organic materials is less studied. Here, we performed RNA-seq to explore the influences of Cd contaminated rice on function of the liver and kidney of finishing pigs.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Arsenobetaine: an ecophysiologically important organoarsenical confers cytoprotection against osmotic stress and growth temperature extremes

    • Environmental Microbiology

    • Summary

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Heavy metal contamination, microbiological spoilage and biogenic amines content in sushi available on the Polish market

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

    • Abstract

      BACKGROUND

      The study determined the heavy metal contamination (mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic and nickel) of nori, restaurant-served sushi and ready-to-eat sushi meals available through retail chains. Moreover the microbiological loads and biogenic amines content in ready-to-eat sushi meals were analysed.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. The Role of Node Restriction on Cadmium Accumulation in the Brown Rice of 12 Chinese Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Cultivars

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Effects of Interaction between Cadmium (Cd) and Selenium (Se) on Grain Yield and Cd and Se Accumulation in a Hybrid Rice (Oryza sativa) System

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Systematic Investigation of the Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic and Bioactive Nutrients in Rice with Various Cooking Techniques

    • Journal of Food Protection

    • Journal of Food Protection, Volume 80, Issue 11, Page 1924-1932, November 2017.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Green and efficient removal of cadmium from rice flour using natural deep eutectic solvents

    • Food Chemistry

    • Publication date: 1 April 2018
      , Volume 244

      Author(s): Yao Huang, Fang Feng, Zhi-Gang Chen, Tao Wu, Zi-Han Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  24. The Arsenic Resistance-Associated Listeria Genomic Island LGI2 Exhibits Sequence and Integration Site Diversity and a Propensity for Three Listeria monocytogenes Clones with Enhanced Virulence [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • In the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, arsenic resistance is encountered primarily in serotype 4b clones considered to have enhanced virulence and is associated with an arsenic resistance gene cluster within a 35-kb chromosomal region, Listeria genomic island 2 (LGI2). LGI2 was first identified in strain Scott A and includes genes putatively involved in arsenic and cadmium resistance, DNA integration, conjugation, and pathogenicity.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Heavy Metals
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  25. Reduction of in utero lead exposures in South African populations: Positive impact of unleaded petrol

    • PLOS ONE

    • Halina B. Röllin, Bukola Olutola, Kalavati Channa, Jon Ø. Odland

      Background

      Prenatal exposure to lead (Pb) has been shown to have negative and irreversible health impacts on foetal and early childhood development, affecting morbidity and mortality in adulthood. This study aimed to assess in utero Pb exposure, examine birth outcomes, and identify confounding factors in the large cohort of South African population, following the legislated removal of Pb from petrol.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals
      • Pesticide residues