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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. Preliminary Estimation of Deoxynivalenol Excretion through a 24 h Pilot Study

    • Toxins

    • A duplicate diet study was designed to explore the occurrence of 15 Fusarium mycotoxins in the 24 h-diet consumed by one volunteer as well as the levels of mycotoxins in his 24 h-collected urine. The employed methodology involved solvent extraction at high ionic strength followed by dispersive solid phase extraction and gas chromatography determination coupled to mass spectrometry in tandem. Satisfactory results in method performance were achieved.

  2. Concentration- and roughness-dependent antibacterial and antifungal activities of CuO thin films and their Cu ion cytotoxicity and elution behavior

    • Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

    • Abstract

  3. Generation of a CRISPR database for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis complex and role of CRISPR based immunity in conjugation

    • Environmental Microbiology

    • The CRISPR/Cas system is used by bacteria and archaea against invading conjugative plasmids or bacteriophages. Central to this immunity system are genomic CRISPR loci that contain fragments of invading DNA. These are maintained as spacers in the CRISPR loci between direct repeats and the spacer composition in any bacterium reflects its evolutionary history. We analyzed the CRISPR locus sequences of 335 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis complex strains.

  4. Multiple mycotoxin co-occurrence in maize grown in three agro-ecological zones of Tanzania

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2015
      , Volume 54
      Author(s): Analice Kamala , Johana Ortiz , Martin Kimanya , Geert Haesaert , Silvana Donoso , Bendantuguka Tiisekwa , Bruno De Meulenaer

  5. Phenotype Shift from Atypical Scrapie to CH1641 following Experimental Transmission in Sheep

    • PLOS ONE

    • Marion M. Simmons, S. Jo Moore, Richard Lockey, Melanie J Chaplin, Timm Konold, Christopher Vickery, John Spiropoulos

  6. Recognition of Coxiella burnetii by Toll-like Receptors and Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain-like Receptors

    • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

    • Background. Infection with Coxiella burnetii can lead to acute and chronic Q fever. Toll-like receptor 1 (TLR1), TLR2, TLR4, TLR6, nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain receptor 1 (NOD1), NOD2, and the mitogen-activated protein kinases are central in the innate immune response against microorganisms, but little is known about their role in the recognition of C. burnetii in humans.

  7. Impact of Genotype-Specific Herd Immunity on the Circulatory Dynamism of Norovirus: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study of Viral Acute Gastroenteritis

    • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

    • Human norovirus is a major cause of viral acute gastroenteritis worldwide. However, the transition of endemic norovirus genotypes remains poorly understood. The characteristics of natural immunity against norovirus are unclear because few studies have been performed in the natural infection setting.

  8. Effect of melamine toxicity on tetrahymena thermophila proliferation and metallothionein expression

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology

    • Publication date: Available online 23 February 2015
      Food and Chemical Toxicology
      Author(s): Wei Li , Hua Li , Jie Zhang , Xuewen Tian

  9. Acquisition of extended-spectrum cephalosporin- and colistin-resistant Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype Newport by pilgrims during Hajj

    • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

    • Publication date: Available online 23 February 2015

      Author(s): Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitan , Ndèye Méry Dia , Philippe Gautret , Samir Benkouiten , Khadidja Belhouchat , Tassadit Drali , Philippe Parola , Philippe Brouqui , Ziad Memish , Didier Raoult , Jean-Marc Rolain

  10. Significanceof Ochratoxin A in Breakfast Cerealsfrom the United States

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Ochratoxin A (OTA) has been found in all major cereal grains including oat, wheat, and barley worldwide and considered as a potential concern in food safety. A total of 489 samples of corn-, rice-, wheat-, and oat-based breakfast cereal were collected from U.S. retail marketplaces over a two-year period, and OTA was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Overall, 205 samples (42%) were contaminated with OTA in the range from 0.10 to 9.30 ng/g.

  11. A novel active packaging for extending the shelf-life of fresh mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2015
      , Volume 54
      Author(s): Magdalena Wrona , Karim Bentayeb , Cristina Nerín

  12. Antibacterial activity of Oregano, Rosmarinus and Thymus essential oils against Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes in beef meatballs

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2015
      , Volume 54
      Author(s): G. Pesavento , C. Calonico , A.R. Bilia , M. Barnabei , F. Calesini , R. Addona , L. Mencarelli , L. Carmagnini , M.C. Di Martino , A. Lo Nostro

  13. Voltammetry pulse array developed to determine the antioxidant activity of camu–camu (Myrciaria dubia (H.B.K.) McVaug) and tumbo (Passiflora mollisima (Kunth) L.H. Bailey) juices employing voltammetric electronic tongues

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2015
      , Volume 54
      Author(s): Edwin O. Baldeón , Miguel Alcañiz , Rafa Masot , Esteban M. Fuentes , José M. Barat , Raúl Grau

  14. Influence of oak origin and ageing conditions on wine spoilage by Brettanomyces yeasts

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2015
      , Volume 54
      Author(s): P. Rubio , P. Garijo , P. Santamaría , R. López , J. Martínez , A.R. Gutiérrez

  15. Characterisation of L. monocytogenes strains isolated from salad vegetables

    • International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health

    • Seventy-one strains of L. monocytogenes isolated from raw salad vegetables consumed in the minimally processed state in Malaysia were characterised by serotyping, random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction analysis (RAPD-PCR) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Based on serotyping, only one strain belonged to serotype 4 while the rest were from serotype 1. RAPD-PCR typing was carried out using two primers, i.e., OPAR-8 and GEN 1-50-09.

  16. Food Safety Review in the State of Kuwait as a part of Arab Gulf Area

    • International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health

    • The Food Safety Review (FSR) is a partnership between industry, government, academia, and the consumer. The reason for our review is to increase consistency among local health departments and their interpretations of the state food service rules.

  17. Screening for antibiotic residues in swine and poultry tissues using the STAR test

    • International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health

    • During a 12-month period, 138 tissue samples (muscle, liver, kidney) were screened for antibiotic residues (ARs), using the five-plate STAR test. Samples positive to one or more antibiotics were detected in 33.9% of the chicken samples and in 26% of the pig samples.

  18. Improvement of food safety for older adults participating in congregate meal sites

    • International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health

    • The elderly population in the USA is rapidly growing and is expected to reach 72 million people by 2030, more than double the number in 2000. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to contract foodborne illness and therefore they experience more health complications from food contamination.

  19. Heavy metal whole-cell biosensors using eukaryotic microorganisms: an updated critical review

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Juan-Carlos Gutierrez, Francisco Amaro and Ana Martin-Gonzalez This review analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of using eukaryotic microorganisms to design whole-cell biosensors (WCBs) for monitoring environmental heavy metal pollution in soil or aquatic habitats. Basic considerations for designing a eukaryotic WCB are also shown.

  20. Factors affecting cell population density during enrichment and subsequent molecular detection of Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli O157:H7 on lettuce contaminated during field production

    • Food Control

    • Publication date: August 2015
      , Volume 54
      Author(s): Gabriela Lopez-Velasco , Alejandro Tomas-Callejas , Adrian O. Sbodio , Xuan Pham , Polly Wei , Dawit Diribsa , Trevor V. Suslow

  21. Traceback Investigation for Salmonella Contamination at Egg Processing Plants in South Korea: Prevalence, Antibiotic Resistance, and Epidemiological Tracing by Rep-PCR Fingerprinting

    • Journal of Food Science

    • We conducted a survey of Salmonella from 8 egg-breaking plants and a farm to determine the prevalence and the source of the bacteriaThe contents of 2400 shell eggs (20 eggs per pool), 75 pasteurized liquid egg products, and 120 unpasteurized liquid egg products from 8 egg-breaking plants in South Korea were examined.

  22. Biofilms of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium isolated from the processing of ricotta and the control of these pathogens through cleaning and sanitization procedures

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 4 May 2015
      , Volume 200
      Author(s): Meg da Silva Fernandes , Dirce Yorika Kabuki , Arnaldo Yoshiteru Kuaye

  23. In vitro evaluation of the activity of thiosemicarbazone derivatives against mycotoxigenic fungi affecting cereals

    • International Journal of Food Microbiology

    • Publication date: 4 May 2015
      , Volume 200
      Author(s): Francesca Degola , Caterina Morcia , Franco Bisceglie , Francesca Mussi , Giorgio Tumino , Roberta Ghizzoni , Giorgio Pelosi , Valeria Terzi , Annamaria Buschini , Francesco Maria Restivo , Tiziana Lodi

  24. Predominant Campylobacter jejuni Sequence Types Persist in Finnish Chicken Production

    • PLOS ONE

    • Ann-Katrin Llarena, Adeline Huneau, Marjaana Hakkinen, Marja-Liisa Hänninen

  25. Novel sequence types of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli isolated from cattle

    • Letters in Applied Microbiology

    • The objective of this study was to assess the genetic diversity of non-O157 STEC isolates from cattle. Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) was used to identify and compare the sequence types (STs) of 43 non-O157 STEC cattle isolates using the EcMLST database curated by the STEC Center at Michigan State University. For the 43 isolates, 19 STs were identified and 10 of those STs were novel compared to those in EcMLST. For the 43 isolates, 19 different serotypes were identified.