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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. Dietary flavonoid fisetin binds human SUMO1 and blocks sumoylation of p53

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Vaithish Velazhahan, Przemyslaw Glaza, Alvaro I. Herrera, Om Prakash, Michal Zolkiewski, Brian V. Geisbrecht, Kathrin Schrick

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Docking studies and molecular dynamics simulations of the binding characteristics of waldiomycin and its methyl ester analog to Staphylococcus aureus histidine kinase

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Awwad Radwan, Gamal M. Mahrous

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Comparative metagenomics reveals the microbial diversity and metabolic potentials in the sediments and surrounding seawaters of Qinhuangdao mariculture area

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Shuping Wang, Zhenguang Yan, Pengyuan Wang, Xin Zheng, Juntao Fan

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  4. Electronic nicotine delivery system design and aerosol toxicants: A systematic review

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Alexandra M. Ward, Rola Yaman, Jon O. Ebbert

      Background

      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Truncated mutants of beta-glucosidase 2 (GBA2) are localized in the mitochondrial matrix and cause mitochondrial fragmentation

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Saki Sultana, Jacklyn Stewart, Aarnoud C. van der Spoel

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues

  6. Antibiotic residues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria detected in milk marketed for human consumption in Kibera, Nairobi

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Kelsey Brown, Maina Mugoh, Douglas R. Call, Sylvia Omulo

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Environmental exposure to lead and cadmium and hearing loss in Chinese adults: A case-control study

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Da-Hui Wang, Hui Xu, Yi-Hua Zheng, Dong-Sheng Gu, Ya-Jun Zhu, Ying Ren, Shi-Chang Wang, Lei Yang, Liang-Wen Xu

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  8. Cadmium and volumetric mammographic density: A cross-sectional study in Polish women

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Beata Pepłońska, Beata Janasik, Valerie McCormack, Agnieszka Bukowska-Damska, Paweł Kałużny

      Introduction

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  9. Concentrations of toxic metals and essential trace elements vary among individual neurons in the human locus ceruleus

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Roger Pamphlett, Rachel Mak, Joonsup Lee, Michael E. Buckland, Antony J. Harding, Stephen Kum Jew, David J. Paterson, Michael W. M. Jones, Peter A. Lay

      Objective

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  10. A MYB transcription factor, BnMYB2, cloned from ramie (Boehmeria nivea) is involved in cadmium tolerance and accumulation

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Shoujing Zhu, Wenjuan Shi, Yucheng Jie, Qingming Zhou, Chenbo Song

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  11. Environmental exposure to metal mixtures and linear growth in healthy Ugandan children

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Emily C. Moody, Elena Colicino, Robert O. Wright, Ezekiel Mupere, Ericka G. Jaramillo, Chitra Amarasiriwardena, Sarah E. Cusick

      Background

      Stunting is an indicator of poor linear growth in children and is an important public health problem in many countries. Both nutritional deficits and toxic exposures can contribute to lower height-for-age Z-score (HAZ) and stunting (HAZ < -2).

      Objectives

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  12. The standardized 12-lead fetal electrocardiogram of the healthy fetus in mid-pregnancy: A cross-sectional study

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Carlijn Lempersz, Judith O. van Laar, Sally-Ann B. Clur, Kim M. Verdurmen, Guy J. Warmerdam, Joris van der Post, Nico A. Blom, Tammo Delhaas, S. Guid Oei, Rik Vullings

      Introduction

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  13. Measuring universal health coverage in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health: An update of the composite coverage index

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Fernando C. Wehrmeister, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Ties Boerma, Cesar G. Victora

      Background

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Surface horizons of forest soils for the diagnosis of soil environment contamination and toxicity caused by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Paulina Chaber, Barbara Gworek

      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Evidence for extensive anaerobic dechlorination and transformation of the pesticide chlordecone (C10Cl10O) by indigenous microbes in microcosms from Guadeloupe soil

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Line Lomheim, Laurent Laquitaine, Suly Rambinaising, Robert Flick, Andrei Starostine, Corine Jean-Marius, Elizabeth A. Edwards, Sarra Gaspard

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues

  16. Potential endocrine disrupting properties of toys for babies and infants

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Christian Kirchnawy, Fiona Hager, Veronica Osorio Piniella, Mathias Jeschko, Michael Washüttl, Johannes Mertl, Aurelie Mathieu-Huart, Christophe Rousselle

      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Undernutrition combined with dietary mineral oil hastens depuration of stored dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls in ewes. 1. Kinetics in blood, adipose tissue and faeces

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Lucille Rey-Cadilhac, Ronan Cariou, Anne Ferlay, Catherine Jondreville, Carole Delavaud, Yannick Faulconnier, Sébastien Alcouffe, Pascal Faure, Philippe Marchand, Bruno Le Bizec, Stefan Jurjanz, Sylvain Lerch Food safety crises involving persistent organic pollutants [POPs, e.g. dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides] lead to systematic slaughter of livestock to prevent their entry into the food chain.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Dioxins
      • Pesticide residues

  18. Undernutrition combined with dietary mineral oil hastens depuration of stored dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls in ewes. 2. Tissue distribution, mass balance and body burden

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Sylvain Lerch, Lucille Rey-Cadilhac, Ronan Cariou, Yannick Faulconnier, Catherine Jondreville, Denis Roux, Gaud Dervilly-Pinel, Bruno Le Bizec, Stefan Jurjanz, Anne Ferlay

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Dioxins

  19. Ultrasensitive fluorescent detection of pesticides in real sample by using green carbon dots

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Fatemeh Ashrafi Tafreshi, Zahra Fatahi, Seyedeh Fatemeh Ghasemi, Amirali Taherian, Neda Esfandiari

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Association of atrial fibrillation and clinical outcomes in adults with chronic kidney disease: A propensity score-matched analysis

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Chunxia Zhang, Jingli Gao, Yidan Guo, Aijun Xing, Pengpeng Ye, Yuntao Wu, Shouling Wu, Yang Luo

      Objective

      Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with adverse outcomes in the general population, but its impact on patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains unclear. In this study, we assessed the association between AF and risks of all-cause mortality and stroke in Chinese adults with CKD.

      Methods

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Facile and noninvasive passivation, doping and chemical tuning of macroscopic hybrid perovskite crystals

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Ahmad R. Kirmani, Ahmed E. Mansour, Chen Yang, Rahim Munir, Ahmed M. El-Zohry, Omar F. Mohammed, Aram Amassian

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Mercury-methylating bacteria are associated with copepods: A proof-of-principle survey in the Baltic Sea

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Elena Gorokhova, Anne L. Soerensen, Nisha H. Motwani

      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Construction of Raman spectroscopic fingerprints for the detection of Fusarium wilt of banana in Taiwan

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Yi-Jia Lin, Hsuan-Kai Lin, Ying-Hong Lin

      • Chemical contaminants

  24. Convcast: An embedded convolutional LSTM based architecture for precipitation nowcasting using satellite data

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Ashutosh Kumar, Tanvir Islam, Yoshihide Sekimoto, Chris Mattmann, Brian Wilson

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  25. Dysfunctional neuroplasticity in newly arrived Middle Eastern refugees in the U.S.: Association with environmental exposures and mental health symptoms

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Bengt B. Arnetz, Sukhesh Sudan, Judith E. Arnetz, Jolin B. Yamin, Mark A. Lumley, John S. Beck, Paul M. Stemmer, Paul Burghardt, Scott E. Counts, Hikmet Jamil

      Background

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants