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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. Plant essential oils and components on growth of spoilage yeasts in microbiological media and a model salad dressing

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2016
      , Volume 65

      Author(s): Emefa A. Monu, Chayapa Techathuvanan, Audra Wallis, Faith J. Critzer, P. Michael Davidson

  2. Inhibitory effects of a novel antimicrobial peptide from kefir against Escherichia coli

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2016
      , Volume 65

      Author(s): Jianyin Miao, Guo Liu, Chang Ke, Weihao Fan, Chaozhu Li, Yanhui Chen, William Dixon, Mingyue Song, Yong Cao, Hang Xiao

      • Bacterial pathogens

  3. Estimated exposure to zearalenone, ochratoxin A and aflatoxin B1 through the consume of bakery products and pasta considering effects of food processing

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 22 January 2016
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Emilli Keller Bol, Letícia Araujo, Flávio Fonseca Veras, Juliane Elisa Welke

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  4. Risk assessment of the cumulative acute exposure of Hungarian population to organophosphorus pesticide residues with regard to consumers of plant based foods

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 22 January 2016
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Andrea Zentai, István J. Szabó, Kata Kerekes, Árpád Ambrus

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  5. A predictive growth model of Aeromonas hydrophila on chicken breasts under various storage temperatures

    • LWT

    • Publication date: June 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 69

      Author(s): Sungdae Yang, Shin Young Park, Sang-Do Ha

      • Bacterial pathogens

  6. Direct Dynamic Kinetic Analysis and Computer Simulation of Growth of Clostridium perfringens in Cooked Turkey during Cooling

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      This research applied a new 1-step methodology to directly construct a tertiary model that describes the growth of Clostridium perfringens in cooked turkey meat under dynamically cooling conditions. The kinetic parameters of the growth models were determined by numerical analysis and optimization using multiple dynamic growth curves.

      • Clostridium perfringens
      • Bacterial pathogens

  7. Mycotoxins in Bovine Milk and Dairy Products: A Review

    • Journal of Food Science

    • Abstract

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  8. The Salmonella In Silico Typing Resource (SISTR): An Open Web-Accessible Tool for Rapidly Typing and Subtyping Draft Salmonella Genome Assemblies

    • PLOS ONE

    • Catherine E. Yoshida, Peter Kruczkiewicz, Chad R. Laing, Erika J. Lingohr, Victor P. J. Gannon, John H. E. Nash, Eduardo N. Taboada

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. Standardized Escherichia coli O157:H7 Exposure Studies in Cattle Provide Evidence that Bovine Factors Do Not Drive Increased Summertime Colonization [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The increased summertime prevalence of cattle carriage of enterohemorrhagic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) is associated with the increased summertime incidence of human infection. The mechanism driving the seasonality of STEC O157 carriage among cattle is unknown. We conducted experimental challenge trials to distinguish whether factors extrinsic or intrinsic to cattle underlie the seasonality of STEC O157 colonization.

      • Escherichia coli O157:H7
      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Tolerance of Listeria monocytogenes to Quaternary Ammonium Sanitizers Is Mediated by a Novel Efflux Pump Encoded by emrE [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • A novel genomic island (LGI1) was discovered in Listeria monocytogenes isolates responsible for the deadliest listeriosis outbreak in Canada, in 2008. To investigate the functional role of LGI1, the outbreak strain 08-5578 was exposed to food chain-relevant stresses, and the expression of 16 LGI1 genes was measured. LGI1 genes with putative efflux (L.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  11. Determination of Evolutionary Relationships of Outbreak-Associated Listeria monocytogenes Strains of Serotypes 1/2a and 1/2b by Whole-Genome Sequencing [Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • We used whole-genome sequencing to determine evolutionary relationships among 20 outbreak-associated clinical isolates of Listeria monocytogenes serotypes 1/2a and 1/2b. Isolates from 6 of 11 outbreaks fell outside the clonal groups or "epidemic clones" that have been previously associated with outbreaks, suggesting that epidemic potential may be widespread in L. monocytogenes and is not limited to the recognized epidemic clones.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  12. Purification and Host Specificity of Predatory Halobacteriovorax Isolates from Seawater [Environmental Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Halobacteriovorax (formerly Bacteriovorax) is a small predatory bacterium found in the marine environment and modulates bacterial pathogens in shellfish. Four strains of Halobacteriovorax originally isolated in Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 host cells were separated from their prey by an enrichment-filtration-dilution technique for specificity testing in other bacteria.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  13. Processing-Dependent and Clonal Contamination Patterns of Listeria monocytogenes in the Cured Ham Food Chain Revealed by Genetic Analysis [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • The quantitative and qualitative patterns of environmental contamination by Listeria monocytogenes were investigated in the production chain of dry-cured Parma ham. Standard arrays of surfaces were sampled in processing facilities during a single visit per plant in the three compartments of the food chain, i.e., ham production (19 plants) and postproduction, which was divided into deboning (43 plants) and slicing (25 plants) steps.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  14. A Livestock-Associated, Multidrug-Resistant, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clonal Complex 97 Lineage Spreading in Dairy Cattle and Pigs in Italy [Public and Environmental Health Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Pandemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clonal complex 97 (CC97) lineages originated from livestock-to-human host jumps. In recent years, CC97 has become one of the major MRSA lineages detected in Italian farmed animals. The aim of this study was to characterize and analyze differences in MRSA and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) mainly of swine and bovine origins.

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  15. Validation of a Previously Developed Geospatial Model That Predicts the Prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in New York State Produce Fields [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Technological advancements, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), have made it possible to predict the likelihood of foodborne pathogen contamination in produce production environments using geospatial models. Yet, few studies have examined the validity and robustness of such models.

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Influence of oxyR on Growth, Biofilm Formation, and Mobility of Vibrio parahaemolyticus [Food Microbiology]

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

    • Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a common marine food-borne enteropathogen. In this study, we examined the antioxidative activity, growth, biofilm formation, and cell mobility of an oxyR deletion mutant and its genetically complementary strain of V. parahaemolyticus. oxyR is the regulator of catalase and ahpC genes. Protection against extrinsic H2O2 and against the organic peroxides cumene hydroperoxide and tert-butyl hydroperoxide was weaker in the deletion mutant than in its parent strain.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  17. Sensitive Detection of Organophosphorus Pesticidesin Medicinal Plants Using Ultrasound-Assisted Dispersive Liquid–LiquidMicroextraction Combined with Sweeping Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • A simple, rapid, and sensitive method using ultrasound-assisted dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (UA-DLLME) combined with sweeping micellar electrokinetic chromatography (sweeping-MEKC) has been developed for the determination of nine organophosphorus pesticides (chlorfenvinphos, parathion, quinalphos, fenitrothion, azinphos-ethyl, parathion-methyl, fensulfothion, methidathion, and paraoxon). The important parameters that affect the UA-DLLME and sweeping efficiency were investigated.

  18. Sensitive Detection of Organophosphorus Pesticides in Medicinal Plants Using Ultrasound-Assisted Dispersive Liquid–Liquid Microextraction Combined with Sweeping Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Prospecting for the incidence of genes involved in ochratoxin and fumonisin biosynthesis in Brazilian strains of Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus welwitschiae

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 16 March 2016
      , Volume 221

      Author(s): Fernanda Pelisson Massi, Daniele Sartori, Larissa de Souza Ferranti, Beatriz Thie Iamanaka, Marta Hiromi Taniwaki, Maria Lucia Carneiro Vieira, Maria Helena Pelegrinelli Fungaro

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  20. Characterization of antimicrobial lipopeptides produced by Bacillus sp. LM7 isolated from chungkookjang, a Korean traditional fermented soybean food

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 16 March 2016
      , Volume 221

      Author(s): Mi-Hwa Lee, Jiyeon Lee, Young-Do Nam, Jong Suk Lee, Myung-Ji Seo, Sung-Hun Yi

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Bacillus cereus

  21. Development of a food safety information database for Greater China

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: July 2016
      , Volume 65

      Author(s): Shanquan Chen, Dandan Huang, Wenyan Nong, Hoi Shan Kwan

  22. Changes in contents of trichothecenes during commercial grain milling

    • LWT

    • Publication date: June 2016
      Source:LWT - Food Science and Technology, Volume 69

      Author(s): Kinga Stuper-Szablewska, Tomasz Szablewski, Maciej Buśko, Juliusz Perkowski

  23. Short communication: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in bulk tank milk of dairy cows and effect of swine population density

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • Publication date: Available online 21 January 2016


      Author(s): C. Locatelli, P. Cremonesi, L. Bertocchi, M.G. Zanoni, A. Barberio, I. Drigo, G. Varisco, B. Castiglioni, V. Bronzo, P. Moroni

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  24. Evaluation of probiotic properties of Lactobacillus plantarum WLPL04 isolated from human breast milk

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • Publication date: Available online 21 January 2016


      Author(s): Meiling Jiang, Fen Zhang, Cuixiang Wan, Yonghua Xiong, Nagendra P. Shah, Hua Wei, Xueying Tao

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Shigella
      • Cronobacter
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Bacillus cereus

  25. Udder infections with Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus dysgalactiae, and Streptococcus uberis at calving in dairy herds with suboptimal udder health

    • Journal of Dairy Science

    • Publication date: Available online 21 January 2016


      Author(s): Å. Lundberg, A-K. Nyman, A. Aspán, S. Börjesson, H. Ericsson Unnerstad, K. Persson Waller

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens