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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. From pond to table: Differences in breeding and consumption affect the balance between dietary risk of residual cadmium and uptake benefits of nutrients in Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Yuan Gui, Qian Wang, Jianmin Zou, Xi Chen, Chao Song, Jiazhang Chen

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Allicin Ameliorates Intestinal Barrier Damage via Microbiota-Regulated Short-Chain Fatty Acids-TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB Cascade Response in Acrylamide-Induced Rats

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Acrylamide (AA) is a heat-induced toxicant, which can cause severe damage to health. In the present study, SD rats were used to investigate the potential therapeutic effects of allicin dietary supplementation in the rats with AA-induced intestinal injury. The elevated expression of occludin, claudin-1, zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1), mucin 2, and mucin 3 indicated that oral allicin alleviated the intestinal epithelial barrier breakage induced by AA, compared with the AA-treated group.

      • Shigella
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Knowledge and Behavioral Habits to Reduce Mycotoxin Dietary Exposure at Household Level in a Cohort of German University Students

    • Toxins

    • Mycotoxins pose a health concern for humans. Therefore, strategies at pre- and post-harvest and maximum levels for food have been implemented, aimed to minimize the risk of dietary exposure. Yet, consumers’ dietary habits and life style play a substantial role in overall exposure.

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  4. Detection of Residual Antibiotics and Their Differential Distribution in Broiler Chicken Tissues Using Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay

    • Antibiotics

    • The aim of this study was to estimate the residue levels of five commonly used antibiotics in poultry tissue samples using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). A total of 200 samples that comprised breast and liver (100 each) were collected from five poultry farms randomly selected from Muscat regions. The samples were analyzed for enrofloxacin (ENR), gentamicin (GEN), oxytetracycline (OTC), sulfamethazine (SMZ), and tylosin (TYL) residue concentrations.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  5. Verification of TRI3 Acetylation of Trichodermol to Trichodermin in the Plant Endophyte Trichoderma taxi

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Trichodermin, a trichothecene first isolated in Trichoderma species, is a sesquiterpenoid antibiotic that exhibits significant inhibitory activity to the growth of many pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans, Rhizoctonia solani, and Botrytis cinerea by inhibiting the peptidyl transferase involved in eukaryotic protein synthesis.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Chemical contaminants

  6. Residual Levels of Five Pesticides in Peanut oil Processing and Chips Frying

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

    • Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, Accepted Article. BACKGROUND
      Pesticide contamination in oil crops and processed products is an important food safety concern. The study was aimed to investigate the pesticide residue changes in peanut oil press processing and chips frying.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues

  7. Persistent activation of Nrf2 promotes a vicious cycle of oxidative stress and autophagy inhibition in cadmium-induced kidney injury

    • Toxicology

    • Author(s): Rui-Feng Fan, Kou-Kou Tang, Zhen-Yong Wang, Lin Wang

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  8. Antifungal Activity of Biocontrol Agents In Vitro and Potential Application to Reduce Mycotoxins (Aflatoxin B1 and Ochratoxin A)

    • Toxins

    • Food bio-preservatives are requested as substituents of chemical pesticides in food. The aim of this study was to carry out a screening of twenty biocontrol agents (BCAs) for their potential fungicidal activity in vitro. Twenty BCAs were tested against ten pathogenic fungi. Some of the cell-free supernatants (CFS) tested showed in vitro antifungal activity versus pathogenic fungi.

      • Pesticide residues
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Natural toxins

  9. Determination of sulfonamides in milk and egg samples by HPLC with mesoporous polymelamine‐formaldehyde as magnetic solid phase extraction adsorbent

    • Journal of Separation Science

    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. In this work, magnetic mesoporous polymelamine-formaldehyde composites were synthesized via a facile Schiff base reaction. The magnetic mesoporous polymelamine-formaldehyde composites combined both the properties of mesoporous polymelamine-formaldehyde and the magnetism of NH2-SiO2@Fe3O4 nanoparticles, possessing high specific surface area (150.66 m2 g–1) and good magnetism (24.50 emu g–1).

      • Chemical contaminants

  10. Alanine-scanning mutagenesis of protein mannosyl-transferase from Streptomyces coelicolor reveals strong activity-stability correlation

    • Microbiology

    • In , protein O-mannosyl transferase (Pmt)-mediated protein O-glycosylation has an important role in cell envelope physiology. In

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  11. Effect of Activated Carbon in Thin Sand Caps Challenged with Ongoing PCB Inputs from Sediment Deposition: PCB Uptake in Clams (Mercenaria mercenaria) and Passive Samplers

    • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

    • Ongoing inputs, in the form of sediment deposition along with associated dissolved contaminants, have challenged the assessment of cap performance at contaminated sediment sites. To address this issue, thin 2–3 cm layer sand caps amended with activated carbon (AC) were investigated for the remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated marine sediments using 90-day mesocosms.

      • Chemical contaminants

  12. Evaluation of specific import provisions for food products from third countries based on an analysis of RASFF notifications on pesticide residues

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Paula Kuchheuser, Marc Birringer

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  13. Trends of pesticide residues in foods imported to the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2020

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Arzu Mert, Aiming Qi, Aiden Bygrave, Henrik Stotz

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Plasma membrane-localized protein BcHIPP16 promotes the uptake of copper and cadmium in planta

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Mengyang Niu, Changjian Bao, Junyi Zhan, Xiaomeng Yue, Jianwen Zou, Nana Su, Jin Cui

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  15. Material studies for the recycling of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG)

    • Waste Management & Research

    • This study investigates the feasibility of material recycling for retrieved gillnets from the Baltic Sea collected during a campaign of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Germany. Fragments from the material were analysed by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy revealing polyamide 6 (PA6), polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in net material, swim lines and sink lines, respectively.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  16. Nitrogeniibacter aestuarii sp. nov., a Novel Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium Affiliated to the Family Zoogloeaceae and Phylogeny of the Family Zoogloeaceae Revisited

    • Frontiers in Microbiology

    • Members of the family Zoogloeaceae within the order Rhodocyclales are found to play vital roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems by participating in biofloc formation in activated sludge, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation, and nitrogen metabolism, such as denitrification and nitrogen fixation. Here, two bacterial strains designated H1-1-2AT and ZN11-R3-1 affiliated to the family Zoogloeaceae were isolated from coastal wetland habitats.

      • Chemical contaminants

  17. MiR-155 promotes cadmium-induced autophagy in rat hepatocytes by suppressing Rheb expression

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Hui Zou, Ling Wang, Jianya Zhao, Yan Yuan, Tao Wang, Jianchun Bian, Zongping Liu

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  18. Potassium enhances cadmium resistance ability of Panax notoginseng by brassinolide signaling pathway-regulated cell wall pectin metabolism

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Pengfei Liu, Zhengqiang Jin, Chunyan Dai, Lanping Guo, Xiuming Cui, Ye Yang

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  19. Role of Nramp transporter genes of Spirodela polyrhiza in cadmium accumulation

    • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

    • Author(s): Yan Chen, Gaojie Li, Jingjing Yang, Xuyao Zhao, Zuoliang Sun, Hongwei Hou

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  20. Overview of a bioremediation tool: organophosphorus hydrolase and its significant application in the food, environmental, and therapy fields

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

    • Abstract

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Carbon–Silica Composites from Sago Waste for the Removal of Chromium, Lead, and Copper from Aqueous Solution: Kinetic and Equilibrium Isotherm Studies

    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

    • Utilizing agricultural wastes into value-added products of a low-cost adsorbent has become of interest in recent years. In this study, sago-silica composite with a ratio of 80:20 (w/w%) was prepared via chemical grafting of abundantly available sago waste and rice husk.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  22. Optimization of 204 veterinary drug residues method and establishing their mass spectrum library

    • International Journal of Food Properties

    • A multi-class multi-residue analytical method was validated in this paper for simultaneously identifying 204 veterinary drugs in pork by UPLC-QTRAP MS/MS, including sulfonamides, quinolones, β-agonists, and nitroimidazoles. MRM-IDA-EPI mode of QTRAP was used to establish a secondary mass spectrum library of these 204 veterinary drugs, which could enhance the qualitative analysis of suspect substances.

      • Antibiotic residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  23. Prediction of municipality-level winter wheat yield based on meteorological data using machine learning in Hokkaido, Japan

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Keach Murakami, Seiji Shimoda, Yasuhiro Kominami, Manabu Nemoto, Satoshi Inoue

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  24. Methylmercury chronic exposure affects the expression of DNA single-strand break repair genes, induces oxidative stress, and chromosomal abnormalities in young dyslipidemic APOE knockout mice

    • Toxicology

    • Author(s): Cássia R. Roque, Letícia R. Sampaio, Mayumi N. Ito, Daniel V. Pinto, Juan S.R. Caminha, Paulo I.G. Nunes, Ramon S. Raposo, Flávia A. Santos, Cláudia C. Windmöller, Maria Elena Crespo-Lopez, Jacqueline I. Alvarez-Leite, Reinaldo B. Oriá, Ronald F. Pinheiro

      • Chemical contaminants

  25. First Report on Anti-TSWV Activities of Quinazolinone Derivatives Containing a Dithioacetal Moiety

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

    • Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is a plant virus with strong infectivity and destructive power. Given the lack of effective control agents, TSWV causes significant economic damage to several vegetables and ornamental plants worldwide. In this study, we designed and synthesized a series of novel quinazolinone derivatives containing a dithioacetal moiety and evaluated their antiviral activity in vitro and in vivo against TSWV. Some candidate compounds showed good anti-TSWV activity.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants