Research Publications (Food Safety)

Author(s): Jiawei Shen, Hui Wang, Chengfeng Zhu, Maofeng Zhang, Fei Shang, Ting Xue

Author(s): Alfonso Narváez, Luigi Castaldo, Luana Izzo, Noelia Pallarés, Yelko Rodríguez-Carrasco, Alberto Ritieni

Author(s): Sihui Liang, Hairong Dai, Chunmin Wang, Huayin Zhang, Jian Li, Qian Xu, Qiuping Zhang

Author(s): Holly Ekner, Kristian Dreij, Ioannis Sadiktsis

Author(s): Felice Panebianco, Vincenzo Nava, Filippo Giarratana, Teresa Gervasi, Nicola Cicero

Author(s): Junzheng Sun, Xuanjing Jiang, Yihui Chen, Mengshi Lin, Jinyan Tang, Qin Lin, Ling Fang, Meiling Li, Yen-Con Hung, Hetong Lin

Author(s): Lingjuan Wang, Shanyu Bao, Xiaolong Liu, Fan Wang, Jinwei Zhang, Pengyu Dang, Fengli Wang, Bin Li, Yi Lin

Author(s): Peng Chen, Shengtao Ma, Yan Yang, Zenghua Qi, Yujie Wang, Guiying Li, Jianhui Tang, Yingxin Yu

Multidrug-resistant bacteria represent a global health problem increasingly leading to infections that are untreatable with our existing antibiotic arsenal. Therefore, it is critical to identify novel effective antimicrobials. Venoms represent an underexplored source of potential antibiotic molecules.

Several outbreaks of shigatoxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in the past decade linked to flour and flour-associated products have raised concerns that the consumption of raw flour represents a public health risk as a vehicle for foodborne pathogens. The extent to which consumers know and understand they should not consume raw flour is unclear. In the fall of 2019, the U.S.

A mixed culture of different isolates of Salmonella serovar I 4,[5], 12:i:- was compared to a mixed culture of reference Salmonella serovars as well as non-pathogenic Escherichia coli surrogates.. The two groups of Salmonella were compared for their resistance to commonly used pork carcass interventions, survival in ground pork and thermal resistance in ground pork.

The process of washing tomatoes in dump (flume) tanks has been identified as a potential source of cross-contamination.

The present study was conducted to reveal the concentrations and patterns of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in seven species of freshwater aquatic products ( procambarus clarkii, ctenopharyngodon idellus, parabramis pekinensis, hypophthalmichthys molitrix, cyprinus carpioio, aristichthys nobilis, carassius auratus ) collected from freshwater aquaculture farms around Changsha, China.

Non-essential and toxic for all living organisms, cadmium (Cd) is a trace element to which a significant part of the world population is chronically overexposed through the consumption of food made from cereals, tubers or vegetables (Clemens et al. 2013). Cadmium in these plant products comes from the soil, through root absorption and translocation to the harvested organs (Sterckeman and Thomine 2020).

Imipenem is the most efficient antibiotic against Acinetobacter baumannii infection, but new research has shown that the organism has also developed resistance to this agent. A. baumannii isolates from a total of 110 clinical samples were identified by multiplex PCR. The antibacterial activity of Syzygium aromaticum multiple extracts was assessed following the GC-Mass spectra analysis.

This study investigated the ability of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from milk to form biofilm, through detection of adhesion genes, investigating exopolysaccharide (EPS) production and biofilm formation on polystyrene (PS) and stainless steel (SS) surfaces, and by quantifying the expression of ebpS and cna genes under different temperatures and culture media. Among the 31 isolates, the adhesion genes ebpS and cna were found in 81% and 61% of the isolates, respectively.

The discharge of untreated hospital and domestic wastewater into receiving water bodies is still a prevalent practice in developing countries.

Environmental Microbiology Reports, EarlyView. Summary

Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Accepted Article. Abstract

Journal of Applied Microbiology, Accepted Article. Abstract
Aims
To develop an oxygen sensor based method for testing total aerobic viable counts (TVC) in raw meat samples and cattle carcass swabs, which is rapid, simple, affordable, provides good sensitivity and analytical performance and allows on-site use.

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive, intracellular pathogen responsible for the highly fatal foodborne illness listeriosis. Establishing intracellular infections requires the coordinated expressions of a variety of virulence factors, such as the pore-forming toxin listeriolysin O (LLO), in response to various intra- and extracellular signals. For example, we previously reported that L.

Antimalarial drug resistance has emerged as a major threat to global malaria control efforts, particularly in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).

Autism spectrum disorder, which is characterized by impaired social communication and stereotypic behaviors, affects 1%–2% of children. Although prenatal exposure to toxicants has been associated with autistic behaviors, most studies have been focused on shifts in mean behavior scores. We used Bayesian quantile regression to assess the associations between log2-transformed toxicant concentrations and autistic behaviors across the distribution of behaviors.

Author(s): Juliana Gonzalez, Jimena Soledad Cadona, Claudio Marcelo Zotta, Silvina Lavayén, Roberto Vidal, Nora Lía Padola, Andrea Mariel Sanso, Ana Victoria Bustamante