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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. Food Sensing: Aptamer-Based Trapping of Bacillus cereus Spores with Specific Detection via Real Time PCR in Milk

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Bacillus cereus

  2. Fabricating Upconversion Fluorescent Probes for RapidlySensing Foodborne Pathogens

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Rare earth-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have promising potential in the field of food safety because of their unique frequency upconverting capability and high detection sensitivity. Here, we report a rapid and sensitive UCNP-based bacterium-sensing strategy using Escherichia coli. Highly fluorescent and water-soluble UCNPs were fabricated and conjugated with antibodies against E. coli for use as fluorescent probes. The E.

  3. Sewage Sludge Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH)Decontamination Technique Based on the Utilization of a LipopeptideBiosurfactant Extracted from Corn Steep Liquor

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • A decontamination technique based on the utilization of a lipopeptide biosurfactant extracted from corn steep liquor has been developed to eliminate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from sewage sludge. High concentrations of PAHs were used during experiments observing that 408.3 mg/kg of naphthalene was almost completely mobilized and biodegraded, only 1.7% of naphthalene remained in the sewage sludge, whereas anthracene and pyrene were reduced up to 51.7 and 69.4%, respectively.

  4. Sewage Sludge Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Decontamination Technique Based on the Utilization of a Lipopeptide Biosurfactant Extracted from Corn Steep Liquor

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • TOC Graphic

      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Significanceof Ochratoxin A in Breakfast Cerealsfrom the United States

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Ochratoxin A (OTA) has been found in all major cereal grains including oat, wheat, and barley worldwide and considered as a potential concern in food safety. A total of 489 samples of corn-, rice-, wheat-, and oat-based breakfast cereal were collected from U.S. retail marketplaces over a two-year period, and OTA was determined by high-performance liquid chromatography. Overall, 205 samples (42%) were contaminated with OTA in the range from 0.10 to 9.30 ng/g.

  6. InternationalHarmonization of Food Safety Assessmentof Pesticide Residues

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • This paper summarizes the development of principles and methods applied within the program of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius during the past 50 years for the safety assessment of pesticide residues in food and feed and establishing maximum residue limits (MRLs) to promote free international trade and assure the safety of consumers.

  7. GlobalHarmonization of Maximum Residue Limits forPesticides

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Árpád Ambrus and Yong Zhen Yang

  8. Multi-mycotoxinAnalysis of Finished Grain and NutProducts Using Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography and PositiveElectrospray Ionization–Quadrupole Orbital Ion Trap High-ResolutionMass Spectrometry

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography using positive electrospray ionization and quadrupole orbital ion trap high-resolution mass spectrometry was evaluated for analyzing mycotoxins in finished cereal and nut products. Optimizing the orbital ion trap mass analyzer in full-scan mode using mycotoxin-fortified matrix extracts gave mass accuracies, δM, of <±2.0 ppm at 70 000 full width at half maximum (FWHM) mass resolution (RFWHM).