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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. Evaluating combined toxicity of binary heavy metals to the cyanobacterium Microcystis: A theoretical non-linear combined toxicity assessment method

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Cheng Gao, Li Gao, Pengfei Duan, Haiming Wu, Ming Li

  2. Biochar-assisted transformation of engineered-cerium oxide nanoparticles: Effect on wheat growth, photosynthetic traits and cerium accumulation

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Qumber Abbas, Guijian Liu, Balal Yousaf, Muhammad Ubaid Ali, Habib Ullah, Mehr Ahmed Mujtaba Munir, Rafay Ahmed, Abdul Rehman

  3. The single/co-adsorption characteristics and microscopic adsorption mechanism of biochar-montmorillonite composite adsorbent for pharmaceutical emerging organic contaminant atenolol and lead ions

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Chenlu Fu, Hongling Zhang, Mingzhu Xia, Wu Lei, Fengyun Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Urinary bisphenol A concentration is correlated with poorer oocyte retrieval and embryo implantation outcomes in patients with tubal factor infertility undergoing in vitro fertilisation

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Juan Shen, Quanmin Kang, Yuchan Mao, Mu Yuan, Fang Le, Xinyun Yang, Xiangrong Xu, Fan Jin

      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Toxicity of soil labile aluminum fractions and aluminum species in soil water extracts on the rhizosphere bacterial community of tall fescue

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Hong Niu, Yifei Leng, Shangmin Ran, Maurice Amee, Dongyun Du, Jie Sun, Ke Chen, Song Hong

  6. The effects of exogenous organic acids on the growth, photosynthesis and cellular ultrastructure of Salix variegata Franch. Under Cd stress

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Hong-Chun Chen, Song-Lin Zhang, Ke-Jun Wu, Rui Li, Xin-Rui He, Dan-Ni He, Chao Huang, Hong Wei

  7. New insights into cadmium stressful-conditions: Role of ethylene on selenium-mediated antioxidant enzymes

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Leticia Rodrigues Alves, André Rodrigues dos Reis, Emilaine Rocha Prado, José Lavres, Georgia Bertoni Pompeu, Ricardo Antunes Azevedo, Priscila Lupino Gratão

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  8. The health concern of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a notorious e-waste recycling site

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Jingchun Shi, Li Xiang, Hemi Luan, Yanfu Wei, Helong Ren, Pengcheng Chen

      • Chemical contaminants

  9. Impact assessment of azulene and chromium on growth and metabolites of wheat and chilli cultivars under biosurfactant augmentation

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Ratan Singh, Dheeraj Rathore

  10. Occurrence, speciation and fate of mercury in the sewage sludge of China

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Liu Cheng, Li Wang, Yuanmeng Geng, Ning Wang, Yuxiang Mao, Yong Cai

      • Chemical contaminants

  11. Oxidative DNA damage and multi-organ pathologies in male mice subchronically treated with aflatoxin B1

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Hongyuan Zhou, Jiaman Wang, Liang Ma, Lu Chen, Ting Guo, Yuhao Zhang, Hongjie Dai, Yong Yu

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  12. Occurrence of antibiotics and their associations with antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial communities in Guangdong coastal areas

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Kaihang Xu, Jun Wang, Han Gong, Yizheng Li, Lei Zhou, Muting Yan

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  13. Transcriptome analysis reveals comprehensive responses to cadmium stress in maize inoculated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Longjiang Gu, Manli Zhao, Min Ge, Suwen Zhu, Beijiu Cheng, Xiaoyu Li

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Blockage of ROS-ERK-DLP1 signaling and mitochondrial fission alleviates Cr(VI)-induced mitochondrial dysfunction in L02 hepatocytes

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Yujing Zhang, Yu Ma, Ningjuan Liang, Yuehui Liang, Chan Lu, Fang Xiao

  15. Determination of bisphenol analogues in food-contact plastics using diode array detector, charged aerosol detector and evaporative light-scattering detector

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Huiyu Wang, Shanjun Song, Mingwu Shao, Yan Gao, Chen Yang, Ya Li, Weihua Wang, Yajuan He, Penghui Li

      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Quantification of Cl-PAHs and their parent compounds in fish by improved ASE method and stable isotope dilution GC-MS

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Jun Tan, Xianbo Lu, Lei Fu, Guoshun Yang, Jiping Chen

      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Roles of mtDNA damage and disordered Ca2+ homeostasis in the joint toxicities of cadmium and BDE209

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Lixin Wang, Miaomiao Zheng, Shuping Zhang, Chuan Zhao, Weijun Kang, Ke Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  18. Might the interspecies interaction between fish and shrimps change the pattern of their avoidance response to contamination?

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Cristiano V.M. Araújo, João Rodolfo S. Pontes, Julián Blasco

  19. Effects of corn straw on dissipation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and potential application of backpropagation artificial neural network prediction model for PAHs bioremediation

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Huanyu Bao, Jinfeng Wang, Jiao Li, He Zhang, Fuyong Wu

      • Chemical contaminants

  20. The role of volatiles in Rhizobium tolerance to cadmium: Effects of aldehydes and alcohols on growth and biochemical endpoints

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Diana Matos, Carina Sá, Paulo Cardoso, Adília Pires, Sílvia M. Rocha, Etelvina Figueira

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Analysis of tail coiling activity of zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryos allows for the differentiation of neurotoxicants with different modes of action

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Florian Zindler, Franziska Beedgen, Diana Brandt, Madeleine Steiner, Daniel Stengel, Lisa Baumann, Thomas Braunbeck

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. A pilot study of mothers and infants reveals fetal sex differences in the placental transfer efficiency of heavy metals

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Xueyan Li, Aijing Li, Wenjuan Zhang, Xiaowei Liu, Yong Liang, Xinglei Yao, Maoyong Song

  23. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in oriental magpie-robins from e-waste, urban, and rural sites: Site-specific biomagnification of POPs

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Ling Mo, Xiaobo Zheng, Chunyou Zhu, Yuxin Sun, Lehuan Yu, Xiaojun Luo, Bixian Mai

      • Chemical contaminants

  24. Biopriming with Piriformospora indica ameliorates cadmium stress in rice by lowering oxidative stress and cell death in root cells

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Surbhi Dabral, Yashaswee, Ajit Varma, Devendra Kumar Choudhary, Rajeev Nayan Bahuguna, Manoj Nath

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  25. How Serratia marcescens HB-4 absorbs cadmium and its implication on phytoremediation

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Yakui Chen, Qifa Zhu, Xiangzhou Dong, Weiwei Huang, Chenyu Du, Diannan Lu

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Bacterial pathogens