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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. In utero and peripubertal metals exposure in relation to reproductive hormones and sexual maturation and progression among girls in Mexico City

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: October 2019

      Environmental Research, Volume 177

      Author(s): Pahriya Ashrap, Brisa N. Sánchez, Martha M. Téllez-Rojo, Niladri Basu, Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz, Karen E. Peterson, John D. Meeker, Deborah J. Watkins

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Environmental exposure to low-level lead (Pb) co-occurring with other neurotoxicants in early life and neurodevelopment of children.

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: October 2019

      Environmental Research, Volume 177

      Author(s): José G. Dórea

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Assessment of inorganic contamination of private wells and demonstration of effective filter-based reduction: A pilot-study in Stokes County, North Carolina

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: October 2019

      Environmental Research, Volume 177

      Author(s): Martha Scott Tomlinson, Paige Bommarito, Andrew George, Sarah Yelton, Peter Cable, Rachel Coyte, Jonathan Karr, Avner Vengosh, Kathleen M. Gray, Rebecca C. Fry

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Metallic air pollutants and breast cancer heterogeneity

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: October 2019

      Environmental Research, Volume 177

      Author(s): Jacob K. Kresovich, Serap Erdal, Hua Yun Chen, Peter H. Gann, Maria Argos, Garth H. Rauscher

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Lead exposure and mortality among U.S. workers in a surveillance program: Results from 10 additional years of follow-up

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: October 2019

      Environmental Research, Volume 177

      Author(s): Vaughn Barry, Kyle Steenland

      Abstract
      Background

      A cohort of male lead-exposed workers with past blood lead levels, previously followed for mortality over 12 years, has now been followed for an additional 10 years. This has doubled the number of deaths and allowed for examination of mortality outcomes across a wide range of blood lead levels.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  6. Relation between in utero arsenic exposure and growth during the first year of life in a New Hampshire pregnancy cohort

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 22 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Meghan E. Muse, Zhigang Li, Emily R. Baker, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Susan A. Korrick, Margaret R. Karagas, Diane Gilbert-Diamond

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Human biomonitoring to evaluate exposure to toxic and essential trace elements during pregnancy. Part A. concentrations in maternal blood, urine and cord blood.

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 22 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Beatrice Bocca, Flavia Ruggieri, Anna Pino, Joaquim Rovira, Gemma Calamandrei, María Ángeles Martínez, José L. Domingo, Alessandro Alimonti, Marta Schuhmacher

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  8. The influence of natural variation and organohalogenated contaminants on physiological parameters in white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) nestlings from Norway

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 15 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Mari Engvig Løseth, Jørgen Flo, Christian Sonne, Anne Kirstine Havnsøe Krogh, Torgeir Nygård, Jan Ove Bustnes, Bjørn Munro Jenssen, Veerle L.B. Jaspers

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  9. Developmental low-dose exposure to bisphenol A induces chronic inflammation, bone marrow fibrosis and reduces bone stiffness in female rat offspring only

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 11 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Thomas Lind, Margareta H. Lejonklou, Linda Dunder, Mark M. Kushnir, Caroline Öhman-Mägi, Sune Larsson, Håkan Melhus, P.Monica Lind

      • Chemical contaminants

  10. Metals in biological tissues of the population living near a hazardous waste incinerator in Catalonia, Spain: Two decades of follow-up

    • Environmental Research

    • During the period 1996–1998, a hazardous waste incinerator (HWI) was built in Constantí (Tarragona County, Catalonia, Spain). Because of the potential adverse effects of toxic emissions, mainly metals and dioxins and furans, waste incinerators in general have been an important cause of concern for the public opinion.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Dioxins

  11. Quantification of eight bisphenol analogues in blood and urine samples of workers in a hazardous waste incinerator

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 4 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Neus González, Sara C. Cunha, Carolina Monteiro, José O. Fernandes, Montse Marquès, José L. Domingo, Martí Nadal

      • Chemical contaminants

  12. The adverse health effects of bisphenol A and related toxicity mechanisms

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 3 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Ya Ma, Haohao Liu, Jinxia Wu, Le Yuan, Yueqin Wang, Xingde Du, Rui Wang, Phelisters Wegesa Marwa, Pavankumar Petlulu, Xinghai Chen, Huizhen Zhang

      • Chemical contaminants

  13. Investigation of pesticides and their transformation products in the Júcar River Hydrographical Basin (Spain) by wide-scope high-resolution mass spectrometry screening

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 2 July 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Eddie Fonseca, Arianna Renau-Pruñonosa, María Ibáñez, Emma Gracia-Lor, Teodoro Estrela, Sara Jiménez, Miguel Ángel Pérez-Martín, Francisco González, Félix Hernández, Ignacio Morell

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Selenium status in lactating mothers-infants and its potential protective role against the neurotoxicity of methylmercury, lead, manganese, and DDT

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 28 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Iman Al-Saleh, Somiah Al-Mohawes, Reem Al-Rouqi, Rola Elkhatib

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Cellulose-hydroxyapatite carbon electrode composite for trace plumbum ions detection in aqueous and palm oil mill effluent: Interference, optimization and validation studies

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 28 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Huma Ajab, Aamir Amanat Ali Khan, Muhammad Shahid Nazir, Asim Yaqub, Mohd Azmuddin Abdullah

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. An educational intervention on the risk perception of pesticides exposure and organophosphate metabolites urinary concentrations in rural school children in Maule Region, Chile

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 24 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada, Boris Lucero, Asa Bradman, Kyle Steenland, Liliana Zúñiga, Antonia M. Calafat, María Ospina, Verónica Iglesias, María Pía Muñoz, Rafael J. Buralli, Claudio Fredes, Juan Pablo Gutiérrez

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Epidemiologically-informed cumulative risk hypertension models simulating the impact of changes in metal, organochlorine, and non-chemical exposures in an environmental justice community

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 20 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Junenette L. Peters, M. Patricia Fabian, Jonathan I. Levy

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Spatiotemporal variations of organochlorine pesticides in an apex predator: Influence of government regulations and farming practices

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 20 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Pilar Gómez-Ramírez, Juan Manuel Pérez-García, Mario León-Ortega, José Enrique Martínez, José Francisco Calvo, José Antonio Sánchez-Zapata, Francisco Botella, Pedro María-Mojica, Emma Martínez-López, Antonio Juan García-Fernández

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Longitudinal study of age of menarche in association with childhood concentrations of persistent organic pollutants

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 21 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Kathleen R. Attfield, Susan M. Pinney, Andreas Sjodin, Robert W. Voss, Louise C. Greenspan, Frank M. Biro, Robert A. Hiatt, Lawrence H. Kushi, Gayle C. Windham

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Bone mineral health relates to environmental cadmium exposure- experimental and human data

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 18 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Aleksandra Buha, Ravin Jugdaohsingh, Vesna Matovic, Zorica Bulat, Biljana Antonijevic, Jemma G. Kerns, Allen Goodship, Alister Hart, Jonathan Powell

      Abstract

      Exposure to cadmium (Cd) is recognised as one of the risk factors for osteoporosis, although critical exposure levels and exact mechanisms are still unknown.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Pesticide metabolite concentrations in Queensland pre-schoolers – Exposure trends related to age and sex using urinary biomarkers

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 11 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Yan Li, Xianyu Wang, Leisa-Maree L. Toms, Chang He, Peter Hobson, Peter D. Sly, Lesa L. Aylward, Jochen F. Mueller

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. A quantitative assessment of hormetic responses of plants to ozone

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 7 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Evgenios Agathokleous, Valda Araminiene, Regina G. Belz, Vicent Calatayud, Alessandra De Marco, Marisa Domingos, ZhaoZhong Feng, Yasutomo Hoshika, Mitsutoshi Kitao, Takayoshi Koike, Elena Paoletti, Costas J. Saitanis, Pierre Sicard, Edward J. Calabrese

  23. DVC-FISH to identify potentially pathogenic Legionella inside free-living amoebae from water sources

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 4 June 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Y. Moreno, L. Moreno-Mesonero, J. García-Hernández

  24. Trends and disparities in urinary BPA concentrations among U.S. emerging adults

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Irene van Woerden, Meg Bruening, Jessica Montresor-López, Devon C. Payne-Sturges

      • Chemical contaminants

  25. Human exposure to PFOS and mercury through meat from baltic harbour seals (Phoca vitulina)

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: Available online 24 May 2019

      Environmental Research

      Author(s): Christian Sonne, Katrin Vorkamp, Anders Galatius, Line Kyhn, Jonas Teilmann, Rossana Bossi, Jens Søndergaard, Igor Eulaers, Jean-Pierre Desforges, Ursula Siebert, Rune Dietz

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants