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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. Exploration of plant products and phytochemicals against aflatoxin toxicity in broiler chicken production: Present status

    • Toxicon

    • Author(s): Umaya Suganthi R, Y.C. Vijayalakshmi, V. Sejian

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  2. NMR evaluation of apple cubes and apple juice composition subjected to two cold plasma technologies

    • LWT

    • Author(s): Thayane R.B. Farias, Elenilson G. Alves Filho, Lorena M.A. Silva, Edy S. De Brito, Sueli Rodrigues, Fabiano A.N. Fernandes

  3. Novel Inhibitors of an Insect Pest Chitinase: Design and Optimization of 9-O-Aromatic and Heterocyclic Esters of Berberine

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • OfChi-h, a lepidopteran-exclusive glycoside hydrolase family 18 (GH18) chitinase from the agricultural insect pest Ostrinia furnacalis, is a promising molecular target candidate for pest control and management. Berberine (BER), a traditional Chinese medicine, binds to a wide variety of glycosyl hydrolases via an identical mechanism, showing potential as a pesticide lead compound. In this work, we found that BER was a moderate inhibitor of OfChi-h with a Ki of 16.1 μM.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Peppermint Essential Oil Suppresses Geotrichum citri-aurantii Growth by Destructing the Cell Structure, Internal Homeostasis, and Cell Cycle

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Peppermint essential oil (Peo) is an efficient antifungal agent, and 2.0 μL of Peo per milliliter culture medium can completely inhibit the mycelium growth and spore germination of Geotrichum citri-aurantii.

  5. Efficacy of Electrokinetics in Remediating Soft Clay Slurries Contaminated with Cadmium and Copper

    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

    • This study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of electrokinetics to remediate two identical soft kaolinite clay slurries with a water content of 70%. The first slurry was contaminated with copper at a concentration of 150 mg/kg of dry soil and the second with cadmium at the same concentration. The tests were performed in four identical electrokinetic columns (two for the electrokinetics tests and two for control) with a volume capacity of 14 L.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  6. Metal Toxicity Can Affect Dragonfly Nymphs and Ostracods Predation Rates and Food Selectivity: Ecological Implications on Food Webs

    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

    • Predation is known to play a prominent role in maintaining ecosystem structure and functioning. Despite metals being known to potentially affect predation in aquatic ecosystems, few studies have been conducted, so far, with the aim of evaluating this interplay. In the present study, the effects of four metal salts (copper, cadmium, mercury, and manganese) on the feeding rates and food preference of the dragonfly Tramea cophisa and of the ostracod Chlamydotheca sp.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. In Silico Analysis of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases in Bacteria

    • Antibiotics

    • The growing bacterial resistance to available β-lactam antibiotics is a very serious public health problem, especially due to the production of a wide range of β-lactamases. At present, clinically important bacteria are increasingly acquiring new elements of resistance to carbapenems and polymyxins, including extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), carbapenemases and phosphoethanolamine transferases of the MCR type.

  8. Identification of a plant endophytic growth‐promoting bacteria capable of inhibiting cadmium uptake in rice

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology

    • Journal of Applied Microbiology, Accepted Article. Aims
      The study aims to identify a novel plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), which contributes to promoting growth and reducing cadmium (Cd) concentration in rice under Cd-contaminated conditions.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  9. Deepoxy-deoxynivalenol (DOM-1), a derivate of deoxynivalenol (DON), exhibits less toxicity on intestinal barrier function, Campylobacter jejuni colonization and translocation in broiler chickens

    • Gut Pathogens

    • Background

      • Campylobacter
      • Bacterial pathogens

  10. Characterization of siderophore-producing microorganisms associated to plants from high-Andean heavy metal polluted soil from Callejón de Huaylas (Ancash, Perú)

    • Microbiological Research

    • Author(s): Carmen Tamariz-Angeles, Gabriela D. Huamán, Edson Palacios-Robles, Percy Olivera-Gonzales, Alberto Castañeda-Barreto

  11. Inhibitory effect of allyl and benzyl isothiocyanates on ochratoxin a producing fungi in grape and maize

    • Food Microbiology

    • Author(s): Bolei Yang, Li Li, Hairong Geng, Chenxi Zhang, Gang Wang, Shuo Yang, Sheng Gao, Yueju Zhao, Fuguo Xing

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Well-orientation strategy for direct binding of antibodies: Development of the immunochromatographic test using the antigen modified Fe2O3 nanoprobes for sensitive detection of aflatoxin B1

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Kunyi He, Tong Bu, Shuang Zhao, Feier Bai, Meng Zhang, Yongming Tian, Xinyu Sun, Mengna Dong, Li Wang

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  13. Development of regional water quality criteria of lead for protecting aquatic organism in Taihu Lake, China

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Lu Li, Fuhong Sun, Qun Liu, Xiaoli Zhao, Kang Song

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Status, Sources and Potential Risk of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soils from Hexi Corridor in Northwest China

    • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

    • The Hexi Corridor is the main commodity grain base in northwest China and plays a special role in ensuring food security in northwest China. However, the multiple pollution transport pathways of PAHs and complex and co-existing potential pollution sources around the study areas require a combination of pollution status, source identification, and risk assessment to explore pollution distribution and potential risks.

      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Clearance of Gram-Negative Bacterial Pathogens from the Ocular Surface by Predatory Bacteria

    • Antibiotics

    • It was previously demonstrated that predatory bacteria are able to efficiently eliminate Gram-negative pathogens including antibiotic-resistant and biofilm-associated bacteria. In this proof-of-concept study we evaluated whether two species of predatory bacteria, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Micavibrio aeruginosavorus, were able to alter the survival of Gram-negative pathogens on the ocular surface.

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  16. Modifying TIMER to generate a slow-folding DsRed derivative for optimal use in quickly-dividing bacteria

    • PLOS Pathogens

    • by Pavan Patel, Brendan J. O’Hara, Emily Aunins, Kimberly M. Davis

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Yersinia

  17. Determination of the frequency, species distribution and antimicrobial resistance of staphylococci isolated from dogs and their owners in Trinidad

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Sharianne Suepaul, Karla Georges, Chandrashekhar Unakal, Filip Boyen, Jamie Sookhoo, Khalil Ashraph, Anisah Yusuf, Patrick Butaye

      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  18. Environmental prevalence of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 in Bangladesh coincides with V. cholerae non-O1 non-O139 genetic variants which overproduce autoinducer-2

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Iftekhar Bin Naser, Tushar Ahmed Shishir, Shah Nayeem Faruque, M. Mozammel Hoque, Anamul Hasan, Shah M. Faruque

      • Vibrio
      • Bacterial pathogens

  19. Soil concentrations, compositional profiles, sources and bioavailability of polychlorinated dibenzo dioxins/furans, polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in open municipal dumpsites of Chennai city, India

    • Waste Management

    • Author(s): Sancho Rajan, K. Ronnie Rex, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Juan Muñoz-Arnanz, Begoña Jiménez, Paromita Chakraborty

      • Dioxins
      • Chemical contaminants

  20. Investigation of pesticide residue removal effect of gelatinized starch using surface-enhanced Raman scattering mapping

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Jie Tang, Qiong Zhang, Jie Zhou, Huichao Fang, Haifeng Yang, Feng Wang

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Comparison of serological and molecular techniques to detect Toxoplasma gondii in free-range chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus)

    • Veterinary Parasitology

    • Author(s): Ana Flávia Minutti, Fernando Emmanuel Gonçalves Vieira, João Pedro Sasse, Thais Agostinho Martins, Mércia de Seixas, Sérgio Tosi Cardim, Luiz Daniel de Barros, João Luis Garcia

      • Toxoplasma gondii
      • Parasites

  22. Magnetic amino-functionalized metal-organic frameworks as a novel solid support in ionic liquids-based effervescent tablets for efficient extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in milks

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Peipei Zhou, Rui Wang, Ru Fan, Xiaoran Yang, He Mei, Huaiyu Chen, Huili Wang, Zhenfeng Wang, Xuedong Wang

      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Network response of two cherry tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) cultivars to Cadmium stress as revealed by transcriptome analysis

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Lihong Su, Yongdong Xie, Zhongqun He, Jianwei Zhang, Yi Tang, Xiaoting Zhou

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  24. Impact of deoxynivalenol on intestinal explants of broiler chickens: an ex vivo model to assess antimycotoxins additives

    • Toxicon

    • Author(s): Vinicius Duarte, Adriano Olnei Mallmann, Diogo Liberalesso, Cristina Tonial Simões, Luciane Tourem Gressler, Franciéli Adriane Molossi, Ana Paula Frederico Rodrigues Loureiro Bracarense, Carlos Augusto Mallmann

  25. Acrylamide Induces Abnormal mtDNA Expression by Causing Mitochondrial ROS Accumulation, Biogenesis, and Dynamics Disorders

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Acrylamide, a well-documented neurotoxicant, is commonly found as a byproduct of the Maillard reaction in carbohydrate-rich foods. Numerous studies have indicated that acrylamide-induced apoptosis accompanied by mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to its neurotoxicity. However, the mechanisms of how acrylamide causes mitochondrial impairment is not well understood.

      • Chemical contaminants