Research Publications (Food Safety)

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. In today's market environment, an aging society is recognized as one of the megatrends in the world. The demographic change in the world population age structure has driven a huge demand in healthcare products as well as services that include the technological innovation for the health and wellness of the elderly.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cultures used in food fermentation are often dried to reduce transportation costs and facilitate handling during use. Dried LAB ferments are generally lyophilized to ensure high cell viability. Spray drying has come to the forefront as a promising technique due to its versatility and lower associated energy costs.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Grape phenolic compounds undergo various types of transformations during winemaking under the influences of yeasts, which further impacts the sensory attributes, thus the quality of wine. Understanding the roles of yeasts in phenolics transformation is important for controlling wine quality through fermentation culture selection.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Food additives, often used to guarantee the texture, shelf-life, taste, and appearance of processed foods, have gained widespread attention due to their increased link to the growing incidence of chronic diseases. As one of the most common additives, carrageenans have been used in human diets for hundreds of years.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Fish and fishery products (FFP) are highly perishable due to their high nutritional value and moisture content. The spoilage is mainly caused by microorganisms and chemical reactions, especially lipid oxidation, leading to losses in quality and market value. Microbiological and lipid deteriorations of fishery-derived products directly lower their nutritive value and pose the risk of toxicity for human health.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. As one of the three major vegetable oils in the world, rapeseed oil is appreciated for its high nutritional value and characteristic flavor. Flavor is an essential attribute, determining rapeseed oil quality and consumer acceptance.

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Spore-forming bacteria are resistant to stress conditions owing to their ability to form highly resistant dormant spores. These spores can survive adverse environmental conditions in nature, as well as decontamination processes in the food and related industries. Bacterial spores may return to their vegetative state through a process called germination.

Author(s): Harleen Kaur Dhaliwal, Michael Gänzle, M.S. Roopesh

Author(s): Araceli Bolívar, Fatih Tarlak, Jean Carlos Correia Peres Costa, Manuel Cejudo-Gómez, Sara Bover-Cid, Gonzalo Zurera, Fernando Pérez-Rodríguez

Author(s): Kaiwen Feng, Ting Li, Cuizhu Ye, Xiaoyu Gao, Tan Yang, Xuehua Liang, Xianglin Yue, Shuangyan Ding, Qiuling Dong, Mingqi Yang, Chunhong Xiong, Ganhui Huang, Jinsheng Zhang

Author(s): Shirin Eyvazi, Behzad Baradaran, Ahad Mokhtarzadeh, Miguel de la Guardia

Background
There is a demand for easy, rapid and affordable analysis of biological contaminants in foods to guarantee their safety and quality. Most analysis of food contaminants is commonly performed in a limited number of samples in centralized laboratories by an expert technician. Therefore, developing of alternative techniques such as portable biosensors is of great significance.

Author(s): Maja A. Zaczek-Moczydlowska, Azadeh Beizaei, Michael Dillion, Katrina Campbell

Author(s): Shuai Zheng, Xingsheng Yang, Bo Zhang, Siyun Cheng, Han han, Qing Jin, Chongwen Wang, Rui Xiao

To explore the seasonal variability and associated health risks of dissolved trace elements (TEs), a total of 45 water samples (15 samples in each season) were collected from the Seti River Basin during pre-monsoon, monsoon, and post-monsoon seasons.

The co-occurrence of multiple mycotoxins, including aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), zearalenone (ZEN) and deoxynivalenol (DON), widely exists in cereal-based animal feed and food. At present, most reported mycotoxins degrading enzymes target only a certain type of mycotoxins. Therefore, it is of great significance for mining enzymes involved in the simultaneous degradation of different types of mycotoxins.

Plant Pathology, Accepted Article. Previous studies demonstrated that a reduction in germination of Colletotrichum alienum conidia could be achieved following treatment with cold plasma (CP) or incubation with plasma-activated water (PAW). In this study, the mode of action of CP and PAW on C. alienum conidia was explored using transmission electron microscopy.

Pyrethroid pesticides are frequently used for household insect control of insects and in agriculture and livestock. Flumethrin is a pyrethroid that is used against ectoparasites in many animals. The goal of this study was to evaluate the cytotoxic, apoptotic, genotoxic, and estrogenic effects of flumethrin on the mammalian breast cancer cell line (MCF-7). Compared with control groups, a dose-dependent decrease was observed in cell viability at concentrations of 100 µM and higher.

ABSTRACT Douglas Channel and the adjacent Hecate Strait (British Columbia, Canada) are part of a proposed route to ship diluted bitumen (dilbit). This study presents how two types of dilbit naturally degrade in this environment by using an in situ microcosm design based on dilbit-coated beads. We show that dilbit-associated n-alkanes were microbially biodegraded with estimated half-lives of 57–69 days.

by Tatjana Reuter, Felix Scharte, Rico Franzkoch, Viktoria Liss, Michael Hensel

Author(s): Eswaramoorthy Thirumalaikumar, Chinnadurai Lelin, Ramamoorthy Sathishkumar, Sugumar Vimal, Setty Balakrishnan Anand, Mariavincent Michael Babu, Thavasimuthu Citarasu

Author(s): Muyang Li, Wei Liu, Wenqiu Liu, Mengyan Bi, Zhaojie Cui

Author(s): He Yu, Miao Wang, Jing Cao, Yongxin She, Yongan Zhu, Jiaming Ye, A.M. Abd El-Aty, Ahmet Hacımüftüoğlu, Jing Wang, Shuibing Lao

Author(s): Jiaqing Feng, Juanjuan Feng, Herman Maloko Loussala, Sen Han, Xiangping Ji, Chunying Li, Haili Sun, Min Sun

Author(s): Yue Ben, Mengzhu Cheng, Lihong Wang, Qing Zhou, Zhenbiao Yang, Xiaohua Huang

Author(s): R.H.A. Pereira, W.J. Keijok, A.R. Prado, J.P. Oliveira, M.C.C. Guimarães