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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. Ketoenamine Covalent Organic Framework Coating for Efficient Solid-Phase Microextraction of Trace Organochlorine Pesticides

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
    • Fiber coating is a key part of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) technology, and it determines the selectivity, sensitivity, and reproducibility of the analytical method. A ketoenamine covalent organic framework called Tp–Azo–COF with rich electronegative N atoms was prepared as an SPME coating in this work. The Tp–Azo–COF coating had a large surface area of 1218 m2 g–1 and good thermal and chemical stability, and it was applied for the extraction of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs).

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants
  2. Nanocellulose-Based Materials and Recent Application for Heavy Metal Removal

    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
    • Among numerous sustainable advanced nanomaterials, nanocellulose is receiving increasing attention for its utilization in water treatment technologies due to its various specific properties and functionalities. The term “nanocellulose” is used for cellulosic material having a nanoscopic scale (or nanoscale) for their dimensional characteristics. It can be obtained in three different forms, which are fibrous form, crystalline form, or bacterial form.

  3. Biomonitoring of Mycotoxins in Plasma of Patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease

    • Toxins
    • Exposure to environmental contaminants might play an important role in neurodegenerative disease pathogenesis, such as Parkinson´s disease (PD) and Alzheimer´s disease (AD). For the first time in Spain, the plasmatic levels of 19 mycotoxins from patients diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease (44 PD and 24 AD) and from their healthy companions (25) from La Rioja region were analyzed.

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins
  4. Ochratoxins in Wines: A Review of Their Occurrence in the Last Decade, Toxicity, and Exposure Risk in Humans

    • Toxins
    • Ochratoxins (OTs) are mycotoxins frequently found in wines, and their contamination can occur during any stage of the winemaking process. Ochratoxin A (OTA) has been the most widely reported and the only one whose concentrations are legislated in this beverage.

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins
  5. Bacterial Natural Product Drug Discovery for New Antibiotics: Strategies for Tackling the Problem of Antibiotic Resistance by Efficient Bioprospecting

    • Antibiotics
    • The problem of antibiotic resistance has become a challenge for our public health and society; it has allowed infectious diseases to re-emerge as a risk to human health. New antibiotics that are introduced to the market face the rise of resistant pathogens after a certain period of use. The relatively fast development of resistance against some antibiotics seems to be closely linked to their microbial origin and function in nature.

  6. Issue Information

    • Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
    • Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 3135-3135, July 2021.

  7. Distribution of virulence factors and its relatedness towards the antimicrobial response of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strains isolated from patients in Kolkata, India

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology
    • Journal of Applied Microbiology, Accepted Article. Aim

      • Bacterial pathogens
  8. Microfluidic rapid quantification of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium collected from chicken meat using immunomagnetic separation after formaldehyde treatment

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology
    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology, Accepted Article. Foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, which cause self-limiting gastroenteritis, are important in food safety and public health. Detection of Salmonella in complex food matrices is required for rapid and effective monitoring of contaminated food products. In this study, we collected Salmonella Typhimurium in chicken using immunomagnetic separation after formaldehyde treatment.

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens
  9. Minute-scale detection of SARS-CoV-2 using a low-cost biosensor composed of pencil graphite electrodes

    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • COVID-19 has led to over 3.47 million deaths worldwide and continues to devastate primarily middle- and low-income countries. High-frequency testing has been proposed as a potential solution to prevent outbreaks. However, current tests are not sufficiently low-cost, rapid, or scalable to enable broad COVID-19 testing. Here, we describe LEAD (Low-cost...

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants
  10. Differential Survival of Non-O157 Shiga Toxigenic Escherichia coli in Simulated Cattle Feedlot Runoff

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease
    • Environmental survival time is important when evaluating adverse health outcomes from foodborne pathogens. Although outbreaks associated with manure-impacted irrigation or runoff water are relatively infrequent, their broad scope, regulatory importance, and severe health outcomes highlight the need to better understand the environmental survival of manure-borne pathogens.

      • Bacterial pathogens
  11. ARHGEF26 enhances Salmonella invasion and inflammation in cells and mice

    • PLOS Pathogens
    • by Jeffrey S. Bourgeois, Liuyang Wang, Agustin F. Rabino, Jeffrey Everitt, Monica I. Alvarez, Sahezeel Awadia, Erika S. Wittchen, Rafael Garcia-Mata, Dennis C. Ko

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens
  12. Microbial contamination of harvested colostrum on Czech dairy farms

    • Journal of Dairy Science
    • The objective of this study was to perform a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of microbial contamination of harvested colostrum on 39 Czech dairy farms.

  13. Both sampling seasonality and geographic origin contribute significantly to variations in raw milk microbiota, but sampling seasonality is the more determining factor

    • Journal of Dairy Science
    • Accurately profiling and characterizing factors shaping raw milk microbiota would provide practical information for detecting microbial contamination and unusual changes in milk. The current work was an observational study aiming to profile the microbiota of raw milk collected across wide geographic regions in China in different seasons and to investigate the contribution of geographical, seasonal, and environmental factors in shaping the raw milk microbiota.

  14. Microbial Food Safety in China: Past, Present, and Future

    • Foodborne Pathogens and Disease
    • Food safety is a major public health issue worldwide, especially in heavily populated countries such as China. As in other countries, the predominant food safety issues in China are foodborne diseases caused by microbial pathogens. Hence, this review provides a systematic overview on microbial food safety in the past, present, and future in China.

  15. Contributions of integrated aflatoxin management strategies to achieve the sustainable development goals in various African countries

    • Global Food Security
    • Author(s): Alejandro Ortega-Beltran, Ranajit Bandyopadhyay

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins
  16. Impact of ultraviolet-C and peroxyacetic acid against murine norovirus on stainless steel and lettuce

    • Food Control
    • Author(s): Yoah Moon, Sangha Han, Jeong won Son, Si Hong Park, Sang-Do Ha

      • Norovirus
      • Viruses
  17. Predictive models for the effect of environmental factors on the abundance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in oyster farms in Taiwan using extreme gradient boosting

    • Food Control
    • Author(s): Nodali Ndraha, Hsin-I Hsiao, Yi-Zeng Hsieh, Abani K. Pradhan

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens
  18. Inactivation of Salmonella in ready-to-eat cabbage slices packaged in a plastic container using an integrated in-package treatment of hydrogen peroxide and cold plasma

    • Food Control
    • Author(s): Ye Eun Kim, Sea C. Min

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens
  19. Peroxyacetic acid and chlorine dioxide unlike chlorine induce viable but non-culturable (VBNC) stage of Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in wash water

    • Food Microbiology
    • Author(s): Pilar Truchado, Maria I. Gil, Ana Allende

      • Listeria monocytogenes
      • Bacterial pathogens
  20. Cold plasma: Microbial inactivation and effects on quality attributes of fresh and minimally processed fruits and Ready-To-Eat vegetables

    • Trends in Food Science & Technology
    • Author(s): Lili Mao, Pranita Mhaske, Xin Zing, Stefan Kasapis, Mahsa Majzoobi, Asgar Farahnaky

  21. Review article: Food safety culture from the perspective of the Australian horticulture industry

    • Trends in Food Science & Technology
    • Author(s): Elizabeth J. Frankish, Graham McAlpine, Deon Mahoney, Bisi Oladele, Pieternel A. Luning, Thomas Ross, John P. Bowman, Hayriye Bozkurt

  22. Contribution of strigolactone in plant physiology, hormonal interaction and abiotic stresses

    • Planta
    • Strigolactones (SLs) are carotenoid-derived molecules, which regulate various developmental and adaptation processes in plants. These are engaged in different aspects of growth such as development of root, leaf senescence, shoot branching, etc. Plants grown under nutrient-deficient conditions enhance SL production that facilitates root architecture and symbiosis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, as a result increases nutrient uptake.

  23. Plasma cytokines during acute human fascioliasis

    • Parasitology Research
    • Fascioliasis is a foodborne trematode endemic worldwide. Children under 15 years have the highest prevalence of infection. We hypothesized that acute fascioliasis would be associated with more pronounced cytokine changes than in chronic disease or no helminth infections. To test this hypothesis, 33 children who lived in the Peruvian highlands were classified into 3 groups: acute fascioliasis, chronic fascioliasis, and no helminth infection.

  24. Mycotoxins as Emerging Contaminants. Introduction to the Special Issue “Rapid Detection of Mycotoxin Contamination”

    • Toxins
    • Concerns for human and environmental health regarding mycotoxins are predominantly raised in connection with their occurrence in food and feed (especially in grains) [1,2]. Thus, mycotoxin contamination is an emerging problem in agriculture. These toxic secondary metabolites produced by some fungal species belong to chemically diverse groups of low molecular weight fungal metabolites with a range of toxic effects including genotoxicity and endocrine disruption [3,4,5,6].

  25. Co-Existence of Certain ESBLs, MBLs and Plasmid Mediated Quinolone Resistance Genes among MDR E. coli Isolated from Different Clinical Specimens in Egypt

    • Antibiotics
    • The emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) strains and even pan drug resistant (PDR) strains is alarming. In this study, we studied the resistance pattern of E. coli pathogens recovered from patients with different infections in different hospitals in Minia, Egypt and the co-existence of different resistance determinants. E. coli was the most prevalent among patients suffering from urinary tract infections (62%), while they were the least isolated from eye infections (10%).

      • Bacterial pathogens