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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. Determination of acrylamide levels in potato crisps and other snacks and exposure risk assessment through a Margin of Exposure approach

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: October 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 108, Part A

      Author(s): Francesco Esposito, Antonio Nardone, Evelina Fasano, Maria Triassi, Teresa Cirillo

      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Acrylamide-forming potential of cereals, legumes and roots and tubers analyzed by UPLC-UV

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: October 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 108, Part A

      Author(s): Joseph H.Y. Galani, Nilesh J. Patel, Jayant G. Talati

      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Transfer of zearalenone to the reproductive system of female rainbow trout spawners: A potential risk for aquaculture and fish consumers?

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: September 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 107, Part A

      Author(s): Maciej Woźny, Kazimierz Obremski, Tomasz Zalewski, Maren Mommens, Alicja Łakomiak, Paweł Brzuzan

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  4. Transcriptional profiling of male F344 rats suggests the involvement of calcium signaling in the mode of action of acrylamide-induced thyroid cancer

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: September 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 107, Part A

      Author(s): Nikolai L. Chepelev, Rémi Gagné, Timothy Maynor, Byron Kuo, Cheryl A. Hobbs, Leslie Recio, Carole L. Yauk

      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Health risk assessment of heavy metals via dietary intake of five pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) cultivars collected from different geographical sites of Iran

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: September 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 107, Part A

      Author(s): Seyedeh Faezeh Taghizadeh, Gholamhossein Davarynejad, Javad Asili, Seyed Hossein Nemati, Ramin Rezaee, Marina Goumenou, Aristides M. Tsatsakis, Gholamreza Karimi

  6. Development and application of a population physiologically based pharmacokinetic model for penicillin G in swine and cattle for food safety assessment

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: September 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 107, Part A

      Author(s): Miao Li, Ronette Gehring, Jim E. Riviere, Zhoumeng Lin

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Concentrations of environmental organic contaminants in meat and meat products and human dietary exposure: A review

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: September 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 107, Part A

      Author(s): José L. Domingo

  8. Coatings in food contact materials: Potential source of genotoxic contaminants?

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Birgit Mertens, M. Van Bossuyt, S. Fraselle, M.N. Blaude, T. Vanhaecke, V. Rogiers, L. Verschaeve, E. Van Hoeck

  9. Current health risk assessment practice for dietary cadmium: Data from different countries

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Soisungwan Satarug, David A. Vesey, Glenda C. Gobe

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  10. High dose tetrabromobisphenol A impairs hippocampal neurogenesis and memory retention

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Ah Hyun Kim, Hye Jeong Chun, Seulah Lee, Hyung Sik Kim, Jaewon Lee

      • Chemical contaminants

  11. Co-occurrence of aflatoxins and ochratoxin A in dried fruits in Iran: Dietary exposure risk assessment

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Ali Heshmati, Tahereh Zohrevand, Amin Mousavi Khaneghah, Amir Sasan Mozaffari Nejad, Anderson S. Sant’Ana

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Metabolism and pharmacokinetics of zearalenone following oral and intravenous administration in juvenile female pigs

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Stefanie C. Fleck, Mona I. Churchwell, Daniel R. Doerge

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  13. Chemically characterized Mentha cardiaca L. essential oil as plant based preservative in view of efficacy against biodeteriorating fungi of dry fruits, aflatoxin secretion, lipid peroxidation and safety profile assessment

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Abhishek Kumar Dwivedy, Bhanu Prakash, Chandan Singh Chanotiya, Deepa Bisht, Nawal Kishore Dubey

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  14. Acrylamide-induced neurotoxicity in primary astrocytes and microglia: Roles of the Nrf2-ARE and NF-κB pathways

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 106, Part A

      Author(s): Mengyao Zhao, Fu Sheng Lewis Wang, Xiaosong Hu, Fang Chen, Hing Man Chan

      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Quantifying dietary exposure to pesticide residues using spraying journal data

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: July 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 105

      Author(s): Martin Olof Larsson, Vibe Sloth Nielsen, Christian Ørsted Brandt, Niels Bjerre, Frank Laporte, Nina Cedergreen

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Risk assessment of methylmercury in five European countries considering the national seafood consumption patterns

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: June 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 104

      Author(s): Silke Jacobs, Isabelle Sioen, Liesbeth Jacxsens, José L. Domingo, Jens J. Sloth, António Marques, Wim Verbeke

      • Chemical contaminants

  17. DNA methylation in lung tissues of mouse offspring exposed in utero to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 2 May 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Trevor J. Fish, Abby D. Benninghoff

      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Evaluation of the bioactive extract of actinomyces isolated from the Egyptian environment against aflatoxin B1-induce cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and oxidative stress in the liver of rats

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: July 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 105

      Author(s): Aziza A. El-Nekeety, Asmaa S. Salman, Amal S. Hathout, Bassem A. Sabry, Sekena H. Abdel-Aziem, Nabila S. Hassan, Mosaad A. Abdel-Wahhab

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  19. Effects of individual and combined toxicity of bisphenol A, dibutyl phthalate and cadmium on oxidative stress and genotoxicity in HepG 2 cells

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: July 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 105

      Author(s): Xiaohui Li, Pinghe Yin, Ling Zhao

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Arsenic, cadmium, mercury, sodium, and potassium concentrations in common foods and estimated daily intake of the population in Valdivia (Chile) using a total diet study

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 16 March 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Ociel Muñoz, Pedro Zamorano, Olga Garcia, José Miguel Bastías

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Joint toxicity of chlorpyrifos and cadmium on the oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage in neuronal cells

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 9 March 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Ming-Yuan Xu, Pan Wang, Ying-Jian Sun, Lin Yang, Yi-Jun Wu

      • Heavy Metals
      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Safety assessment of contaminants of emerging concern in seafood: Contributions of the ECsafeSEAFOOD project

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 6 March 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Marques António, Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz, Kit Granby







  23. The need to revisit ochratoxin a risk in light of diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease prevalence

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 2 March 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Chen Chen, Felicia Wu

      • Natural toxins
      • Mycotoxins

  24. Safety evaluation of soybean protein isolate oxidized by a hydroxyl radical-generating system

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 20 February 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Xingyu Hao, Hongyang Sun, Wei Liu, Liang Li, Hongyu Zhao, Yanhua Li, Dan Zhang, Meili Shao

  25. Individual and combined effects of Aflatoxin B1, Deoxynivalenol and Zearalenone on HepG2 and RAW 264.7 cell lines

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 20 February 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Hongyuan Zhou, Saji George, Crystal Hay, Joel Lee, He Qian, Xiulan Sun

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins