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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. French infant total diet study: Dietary exposure to heat-induced compounds (acrylamide, furan and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and associated health risks

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 16 May 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Véronique Sirot, Gilles Riviere, Stéphane Leconte, Karine Vin, Thiema Traore, Julien Jean, Géraldine Carne, Sébastien Gorecki, Bruno Veyrand, Philippe Marchand, Bruno Le Bizec, Cravedi Jean-Pierre, Cyril Feidt, Paule Vasseur, Marine Lambert, Chanthadary Inthavong, Thierry Guerin, Marion Hulin

      • Chemical contaminants

  2. The occurrence and co-occurrence of aflatoxin and fumonisin along the maize value chain in southwest Nigeria

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 11 May 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Nikita Saha Turna, Oluwatoyin Ademola, Adewale Obadina, Felicia Wu

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins

  3. The mycotoxin patulin: An updated short review on occurrence, toxicity and analytical challenges

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 28 April 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Arnau Vidal, Salma Ouhibi, Ridha Gali, Abderrazzek Hedhili, Sarah De Saeger, Marthe De Boevre

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  4. The characteristics, occurrence, and toxicological effects of patulin

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 25 April 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Iman Saleh, Ipek Goktepe

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  5. Aflatoxin, fumonisin, ochratoxin, zearalenone and deoxynivalenol biomarkers in human biological fluids: A systematic literature review, 2001–2018

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 26 April 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Belqes Ahmad Al-Jaal, Morana Jaganjac, Andrei Barcaru, Peter Horvatovich, Aishah Latiff

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  6. Estimates of dietary exposure of Spanish population to packaging contaminants from cereal based foods contained in plastic materials

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 8 April 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Verónica García Ibarra, Raquel Sendón, Juana Bustos, Perfecto Paseiro Losada, Ana Rodríguez Bernaldo de Quirós

      Abstract

      Food packaging may be a potential source of contamination, through the migration of chemicals from the packaging into the food, thus food consumption is an important route of human exposure to packaging contaminants.

  7. Mycotoxins in uncooked and plate-ready household food from rural northern Nigeria

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 6 April 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Chibundu N. Ezekiel, Michael Sulyok, Isaac M. Ogara, Wilfred A. Abia, Benedikt Warth, Bojan Šarkanj, Paul C. Turner, Rudolf Krska

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  8. Assessment of mycotoxin exposure and risk characterization using occurrence data in foods and urinary biomarkers in Brazil

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 27 March 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Larissa T. Franco, Tânia Petta, George E. Rottinghaus, Keliani Bordin, Gilmar A. Gomes, Paula Alvito, Ricardo Assunção, Carlos A.F. Oliveira

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  9. Mushroom ethanolic extracts as cosmeceuticals ingredients: Safety and ex vivo skin permeation studies

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 25 March 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Oludemi Taofiq, Francisca Rodrigues, Lillian Barros, Maria F. Barreiro, Isabel C.F.R. Ferreira, M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira

  10. Cyanidin-3-O-glucoside promotes progesterone secretion by improving cells viability and mitochondrial function in cadmium-sulfate-damaged R2C cells

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 23 March 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Xia Li, Jun-Li Lu, Jian-Xia Sun, Xin-Wei Jiang, Xu-Sheng Li, Ye Li, Rui Jiao, Ling-Min Tian, Wei-Bin Bai

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  11. Probiotic Bacillus subtilis CW14 reduces disruption of the epithelial barrier and toxicity of ochratoxin A to Caco-2 cells

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 11 February 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Mengxue Peng, Jiawei Liu, Zhihong Liang

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Health risk assessment of acrylamide in bread in Iran using LC-MS/MS

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 10 February 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Samira Eslamizad, Farzad Kobarfard, Christina Tsitsimpikou, Aristides M. Tsatsakis, Kimia Tabib, Hassan Yazdanpanah

      • Chemical contaminants

  13. Serum Bisphenol A concentrations in men with idiopathic infertility

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 7 February 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Christina Mantzouki, Despoina Bliatka, Paschalia K. Iliadou, Alexandra Margeli, Ioannis Papassotiriou, George Mastorakos, Eleni Kousta, Dimitrios G. Goulis

      Abstract
      Background

      Bisphenol A (BPA) has been associated with male reproductive dysfunction. However, few studies have assessed BPA according to the cause of male infertility.

      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Cytotoxicity against fish and mammalian cell lines and endocrine activity of the mycotoxins beauvericin, deoxynivalenol and ochratoxin-A

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 1 February 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): V. García-Herranz, A. Valdehita, J.M. Navvas, M.L. Fernández-Cruz

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  15. Importance of antibiotic residues in animal food

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 30 January 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Merve Bacanli, Nurşen Başaran

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Insights into cellular metabolic pathways of the combined toxicity responses of Caco-2 cells exposed to deoxynivalenol, zearalenone and Aflatoxin B1

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 19 January 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Jian Ji, Qiuyun Wang, Hao Wu, Shuang Xia, Hongyan Guo, Ivana Blaženović, Yinzhi Zhang, Xiulan Sun

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  17. Inorganic arsenic induces pyroptosis and pancreatic β cells dysfunction through stimulating the IRE1α/TNF-α pathway and protective effect of taurine

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 18 January 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Pei Pei, Xiaofeng Yao, Liping Jiang, Tianming Qiu, Ningning Wang, Lei Yang, Ni Gao, Zhidong Wang, Guang Yang, Xiaofang Liu, Shuang Liu, Xue Jia, Ye Tao, Sen Wei, Xiance Sun

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Further analysis of rat myocardium contractility changes associated with a subchronic lead intoxication

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 8 January 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Yuri L. Protsenko, Boris A. Katsnelson, Svetlana V. Klinova, Oleg N. Lookin, Alexander A. Balakin, Larisa V. Nikitina, Oksana P. Gerzen, Salavat R. Nabiev, Ilzira A. Minigalieva, Larisa I. Privalova, Vladimir B. Gurvich, Marina P. Sutunkova, Leonid B. Katsnelson

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. The relationship between zinc intake and cadmium burden is influenced by smoking status

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 4 January 2019

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Kijoon Kim, Melissa M. Melough, Terrence M. Vance, Dongwoo Kim, Hwayoung Noh, Sung I. Koo, Ock K. Chun

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Intestinal epithelial cell apoptosis due to a hemolytic toxin from Vibrio vulnificus and protection by a 36 kDa glycoprotein from Rhus verniciflua Stokes

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 25 December 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Young-Min Lee, Jong Pil Park, Kye-Taek Lim, Sei-Jung Lee

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  21. Cadmium, lead and mercury in muscle tissue of gilthead seabream and seabass: Risk evaluation for consumers

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 18 December 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Elisavet A. Renieri, Irina V. Safenkova, Athanasios Κ. Alegakis, Elvira S. Slutskaya, Venetia Kokaraki, Maroudio Kentouri, Boris B. Dzantiev, Aristidis M. Tsatsakis

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Presence of aiiA homologue genes encoding for N-Acyl homoserine lactone-degrading enzyme in aflatoxin B1-decontaminating Bacillus strains with potential use as feed additives

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 14 December 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): M.L. González Pereyra, M.P. Martínez, L.R. Cavaglieri

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  23. Aqueous bark extract of Terminalia arjuna protects against cadmium-induced hepatic and cardiac injuries in male Wistar rats through antioxidative mechanisms

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 7 December 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Bharati Bhattacharjee, Palash Kumar Pal, Arnab Kumar Ghosh, Sanatan Mishra, Aindrila Chattopadhyay, Debasish Bandyopadhyay

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  24. Presence of unreported carcinogens, Aflatoxins and their hydroxylated metabolites, in industrialized Oaxaca cheese from Mexico City

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 20 November 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Magda Carvajal-Moreno, Manuel Vargas-Ortiz, Estela Hernández-Camarillo, Silvia Ruiz-Velasco, Francisco Rojo-Calleja

      • Hepatitis
      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins
      • Viruses

  25. Chemical-specific maximum allowable levels for pesticide residues in dietary supplements

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 20 November 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): R.E. Adams, J.A. Brickel, V.S. Bhat

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants