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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. Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015

    • Environmental Research

    • Publication date: May 2019

      Environmental Research, Volume 172

      Author(s): Clark Carrington, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Herman J. Gibb, P. Michael Bolger

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  2. Nontargeted Detection Methods for Food Safety and Integrity

    • Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

    • Nontargeted workflows for chemical hazard analyses are highly desirable in the food safety and integrity fields to ensure human health. Two different analytical strategies, nontargeted metabolomics and chemical database filtering, can be used to screen unknown contaminants in food matrices. Sufficient mass and chromatographic resolutions are necessary for the detection of compounds and subsequent componentization and interpretation of candidate ions.

  3. The Human Fecal Microbiota Metabolizes Foodborne Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines by Reuterin Conjugation and Further Transformations

    • Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

    • Scope

      Heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs) are process‐induced food contaminants with high mutagenic and/or carcinogenic potential. Although the human gut microbiota is known to affect the metabolism of dietary constituents, its impact on HAA metabolism and toxicity has been little studied. Here, we investigated the glycerol‐dependent metabolism of seven foodborne HAAs (AαC, Trp‐P‐1, harman, norharman, PhIP, MeIQx, and MeIQ) by human fecal microbiota.

  4. Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 114: Developmental Toxicity of Mycotoxin Fumonisin B1 in Animal Embryogenesis: An Overview

    • Toxins

    • Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 114: Developmental Toxicity of Mycotoxin Fumonisin B1 in Animal Embryogenesis: An Overview

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11020114

      Authors:
      Lumsangkul
      Chiang
      Lo
      Fan
      Ju

  5. Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 56: Simultaneous Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Multi-Class Chemical Contaminants in Maize and Peanut with One-Stop Sample Preparation

    • Toxins

    • Toxins, Vol. 11, Pages 56: Simultaneous Lateral Flow Immunoassay for Multi-Class Chemical Contaminants in Maize and Peanut with One-Stop Sample Preparation

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins11010056

      Authors:
      Du Wang
      Jianguo Zhu
      Zhaowei Zhang
      Qi Zhang
      Wen Zhang
      Li Yu
      Jun Jiang
      Xiaomei Chen
      Xuefang Wang
      Peiwu Li

      • Pesticide residues
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Natural toxins

  6. Untargeted food chemical safety assessment: A proof-of-concept on two analytical platforms and contamination scenarios of tea

    • Food Control

    • Available online 7 December 2018

      Author(s): Grégoire Delaporte, Mathieu Cladière, Valérie Camel

  7. Influence of microbial and chemical contaminants on the yield and quality of ethanol from wheat grains

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Volume 0, Issue ja, -Not available-.

  8. Assessing the combined toxicity of the natural toxins, aflatoxin B1, fumonisin B1 and microcystin-LR by high content analysis

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 22 September 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Julie P. Meneely, Jana Hajšlová, Rudolf Krska, Christopher T. Elliott

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  9. Fusarium mycotoxins and in vitro species-specific approach with porcine intestinal and brain in vitro barriers: A review

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 22 September 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): A. Bertero, L.J. Spicer, F. Caloni

      Abstract

      Fusarium mycotoxins, such as fumonisins, trichothecenes, zearalenone and emerging fusariotoxins, common contaminants of feed and food, have received increased interest, due to the possible impact on animal and human health.

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  10. Relative potency of fifteen pyrrolizidine alkaloids to induce DNA damage as measured by micronucleus induction in HepaRG human liver cells

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 17 August 2018

      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Ashley Allemang, Catherine Mahony, Cathy Lester, Stefan Pfuhler

      • Natural toxins

  11. Aflatoxin M 1 levels in different marketed milk products in Nairobi, Kenya

    • Mycotoxin Research

    • Abstract

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Risk-based monitoring of chemical substances in food: Prioritization by decision trees

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2018
      , Volume 93

      Author(s): E.D. van Asselt, M.Y. Noordam, M.G. Pikkemaat, F.O. Dorgelo

  13. Effects of steaming on contaminants of emerging concern levels in seafood

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: August 2018
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 118

      Author(s): Vera Barbosa, Ana Luísa Maulvault, Ricardo N. Alves, Christian Kwadijk, Michiel Kotterman, Alice Tediosi, Margarita Fernández-Tejedor, Jens J. Sloth, Kit Granby, Rie R. Rasmussen, Johan Robbens, Bavo De Witte, Laura Trabalón, José O. Fernandes, Sara C. Cunha, António Marques

  14. Public perceptions and worry about food safety hazards and risks in Ghana

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: November 2018
      , Volume 93

      Author(s): Rose Omari, Godfred K. Frempong, Winifred Arthur

      • Pesticide residues
      • Aflatoxins
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Natural toxins

  15. High Fundamental Frequency Quartz Crystal Microbalance (HFF-QCM) immunosensor for pesticide detection in honey

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: October 2018
      , Volume 92

      Author(s): Lourdes Cervera-Chiner, Marisol Juan-Borrás, Camen March, Antonio Arnau, Isabel Escriche, Ángel Montoya, Yolanda Jiménez

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Microbiological, chemical and physical quality of drinking water for commercial turkeys: a cross-sectional study

    • Poultry Science

    • AbstractDrinking water for poultry is not subject to particular microbiological, chemical and physical requirements, thereby representing a potential transmission route for pathogenic microorganisms and contaminants and/or becoming unsuitable for water-administered medications.

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Food safety using NMR-based metabolomics: Assessment of the Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, from the Mediterranean Sea

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

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

      Author(s): Tiziana Cappello, Alessia Giannetto, Vincenzo Parrino, Giuseppe De Marco, Angela Mauceri, Maria Maisano

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues

  18. At the Intersection of Urbanization, Water, and FoodSecurity: Determination of Select Contaminants of Emerging Concernin Mussels and Oysters from Hong Kong

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Aquaculture, which is growing 3–5 times faster than terrestrial agriculture, will play an important role to meet future global food production needs. However, over 80% of global sewage production is returned to the environment untreated or poorly treated. In developing nations, these nontraditional waters of diverse quality are being recycled for aquaculture, yet chemical residues are differentially studied.

  19. Molecularly Imprinted Polymer as an Antibody Substitutionin Pseudo-immunoassays for Chemical Contaminants in Food and EnvironmentalSamples

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • The chemical contaminants in food and the environment are quite harmful to food safety and human health. Rapid, accurate, and cheap detection can effectively control the potential risks derived from these chemical contaminants. Among all detection methods, the immunoassay based on the specific interaction of antibody–analyte is one of the most widely used techniques in the field.

  20. Use of an Efficient Measurement Uncertainty ApproachTo Compare Room Temperature and Cryogenic Sample Processing in theAnalysis of Chemical Contaminants in Foods

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • In this study, analytical results were compared when using different approaches to bulk food sample comminution, consisting of a vertical chopper (Blixer) at room temperature and dry ice cryogenic conditions, followed by further subsample processing (20 g) using liquid nitrogen cryogenic conditions (cryomill).

  21. Facing Challenges in Real-Life Application of Surface-EnhancedRaman Scattering: Design and Nanofabrication of Surface-Enhanced RamanScattering Substrates for Rapid Field Test of Food Contaminants

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is capable of detecting a single molecule with high specificity and has become a promising technique for rapid chemical analysis of agricultural products and foods. With a deeper understanding of the SERS effect and advances in nanofabrication technology, SERS is now on the edge of going out of the laboratory and becoming a sophisticated analytical tool to fulfill various real-world tasks.

  22. Exposure assessment for dioxin-like PCBs intake from organic and conventional meat integrating cooking and digestion effects

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: December 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 110

      Author(s): Jessica Tressou, Nadia Ben Abdallah, Christelle Planche, Gaud Dervilly-Pinel, Pierre Sans, Erwan Engel, Isabelle Albert

      • Dioxins
      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Synergistic effect of sodium hypochlorite and ultrasound bath in the decontamination of fresh arugulas

    • Journal of Food Safety

    • Abstract

  24. 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

  25. Temporal patterns of Deepwater Horizon impacts on the benthic infauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope

    • PLOS ONE

    • Michael G. Reuscher, Jeffrey G. Baguley, Nathan Conrad-Forrest, Cynthia Cooksey, Jeffrey L. Hyland, Christopher Lewis, Paul A. Montagna, Robert W. Ricker, Melissa Rohal, Travis Washburn

      • Chemical contaminants