Research Publications (Food Safety)

Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Accepted Article. Fluid bed drying with temperatures of 70-130 °C, together with a coating system based on a zinc oxide nanoparticle (n-ZnO) solution, were investigated for control of fungal growth in paddy before storage. A mathematical model to find suitable conditions for this process was developed.

Journal of Basic Microbiology, EarlyView. Sustainable agriculture and humanity's civilization rest upon valuable natural resources such as earth and water, which have gone maximal exploitation and have been deteriorated by human activities. Heavy metals are natural components and one of the major pollutants of our environment, with a high atomic number and five times the density of water.

Journal of Basic Microbiology, EarlyView. Microalgae have been publicized for their diversified dominance responsiveness and bioaccumulation potential toward pollutants in an ecosystem. Also, algal's incredible capability as biocatalysts in environmental appliances has been well elucidated owing to their robustness and simple nutritional demand.

Algae are photosynthetic eukaryotic (micro-)organisms, lacking roots, leaves, and other organs that are typical for land plants. They live in freshwater, marine, or terrestrial habitats. Together with the cyanobacteria they contribute to about half of global carbon fixation. As primary producers, they are at the basis of many food webs and they are involved in biogeochemical processes.

Genus Ocimum of Labiatae is well known in all traditional medicinal systems like Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy. The pharmaceutical activities of different species of Ocimum attributed to all plant parts. Roots are the most significant vital organ of the plant, as they absorb water and nutrients from soil and transport to aerial parts of the plants.

Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) causes viral hepatitis in humans worldwide, while a subset of HEV species, avian HEV, causes hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome in chickens. To date, there are few reports on the host proteins interacting with HEV and being involved in viral infection. Previous pull-down assay combining mass spectrometry indicated that cell division control protein 42 (CDC42), a member belonging to the Rho GTPase family, was pulled down by avian HEV capsid protein.

The microbes in human bile are closely related to gallbladder health and other potential disorders. Although the bile microbial community has been investigated by recent studies using amplicon or metagenomic sequencing technologies, the genomic information of the microbial species resident in bile is rarely reported.

Cadmium (Cd) ranks seventh on the list of most significant potential threats to human health based on its suspected toxicity and the possibility of exposure to it. It has been reported that some bacterial exopolysaccharides (EPSs) have the ability to bind heavy metal ions. We therefore investigated the capacity of eight EPS-producing lactobacilli to adsorb Cd in the present study, and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum BGAN8 was chosen as the best candidate.

With the widespread use of antibacterial drugs and increasing number of immunocompromised patients, pulmonary fungal infections are becoming more common. However, the incidence of pulmonary fungal and bacterial co-infection is rarely reported.

Author(s): Alessandra M. Gasperini, Angel Medina, Naresh Magan

Author(s): Kohei Takeoka, Hiroki Abe, Kento Koyama, Shigenobu Koseki

Author(s): Dongsheng Sun, Yifang Liu, Jason Grant, Yanyu Long, Xiaojuan Wang, Chaoping Xie

Edible vegetable oils are essential components of our daily diet that are widely consumed in great amounts worldwide. The present study evaluated the concentration of aflatoxins (AFTs) in highly consumed vegetable oils (including peanut, olive, corn, soya bean, linseed, sesame, palm, canola, sunflower, and coconut) through a systematic review and meta-analytic approach.

The aim of this study was to prepare Plantago major seed gum (PMSG)-based nanocomposite active films by the addition of fennel essential oil (FEO) as active agent and nanoclay as reinforcing additive. The effect of FEO (0–8%) and nanoclay (0–5%) on the properties of PMSG films was evaluated using the response surface methodology. Moisture absorption, water vapor permeability, and water contact angle of films decreased by increasing FEO content.

In recent years, with industrial pollution and the application of agricultural fertilizers with high cadmium (Cd) content, soil Cd pollution has become increasingly serious. A large amount of Cd is discharged into the environment, greatly endangering the stability of the ecological environment and human health. The use of microorganisms to induce Cd precipitation and mineralization is an important bioremediation method.

Adsorption of the carcinogen aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) onto agro-waste-based materials is a promising alternative over conventional inorganic binders. In the current study, two unmodified adsorbents were eco-friendly prepared from kale and lettuce agro-wastes. A dynamic gastrointestinal tract-simulated model was utilized to evaluate the removal efficiency of the sorptive materials (0.5%, w/w) when added to an AFB1-contaminated diet (100 µg AFB1/kg).

Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Kentucky is frequently isolated from poultry, dairy and beef cattle, the environment and people with clinical salmonellosis globally. However, the sources of this serovar and its diversity and antimicrobial resistance capacities remain poorly described in many regions. To further understand the genetic diversity and antimicrobial sensitivity patterns among S.

Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView. Zearalenone (ZEA) is one of the most major food contaminants in cereal crops worldwide, risking health of both livestock and humans. This study aimed to assess the cytotoxicity and the underlying mechanism of ZEA on thymic epithelial cells. By using proteomics analysis, we identified 596 differentially expressed proteins in MTEC1 cells upon zearalenone exposure, of which 245 were upregulated and 351 were downregulated.

Author(s): Koentadi Hadinoto, Javiera Barrales Astorga, Hassan Masood, Renwu Zhou, David Alam, Patrick J. Cullen, Stuart Prescott, Francisco J. Trujillo

Author(s): Yuhao Wu, Jiayi Sun, Xiaolin Huang, Weihua Lai, Yonghua Xiong

Background
Immunochromatographic test strip (ICTS) has become one of the most widely used rapid diagnostics platforms for the point-of-care testing of various contaminant residues in food. However, traditional gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-based ICTSs suffer limited sensitivity ranged from ng/mL to μg/mL, thus severely hindering them from meeting the increasing demand for trace target detection.

Author(s): Ioulia Koukou, Tina Dahl Devitt, Paw Dalgaard

Author(s): Seyedeh Fatemeh Ahmadi, Mohammad Hojjatoleslamy, Hossein Kiani, Hooman Molavi

Author(s): Ornicha Champrasert, Caroline Orifila, Prisana Suwannaporn

Author(s): Peiyong Li, Mingyue Zhang, Guijuan Hao, Shuhong Sun Pullorum disease is characterized by white diarrhea resulting from infection by S. Pullorum, but arthritis associated with S. Pullorum infection has become increasingly frequent recently, especially in Chinese native chicken flocks. In this study, we isolated and identified 4 S. Pullorum strains from the Qingjiaoma chicken breeders with arthritis symptoms.