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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. Heavy Metals Content in Great Shearwater ( Ardenna Gravis ): Accumulation, Distribution and Biomarkers of Effect in Different Tissues

    • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

    • The purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness of Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) as a bioindicator for biomonitoring programs for metal pollution. Three different metals were analysed in liver, kidney, and feathers, including cadmium, lead, and zinc. Glutathione-S-transferase, malondialdehyde, reduced glutathione, and catalase were assessed as oxidative stress biomarkers. Sex-related trends in metal accumulation also were evaluated.

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  2. Unsubstituted and Methylated PAHs in Surface Sediment of Urban Rivers in the Red River Delta (Hanoi, Vietnam): Concentrations, Profiles, Sources, and Ecological Risk Assessment

    • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

    • Unsubstituted and methylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (22 PAHs and 17 Me-PAHs) were examined in surface sediments collected from the Red River and four inner-city rivers of Hanoi City, Vietnam. Concentrations of total PAHs and Me-PAHs ranged from 52 to 920 (median 710) and from 70 to 2600 (median 1000) ng/g dry weight in samples of dry and wet seasons, respectively.

      • Chemical contaminants

  3. Functional evaluation of a recombinant fungal immunomodulatory protein from L. rhinocerus produced in P. pastoris and E. coli host expression systems

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology


      • Bacterial pathogens

  4. Enzymatic degradation of xyloglucans by Aspergillus species: a comparative view of this genus

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology


  5. Roles of ompA of Citrobacter werkmanii in bacterial growth, biocide resistance, biofilm formation and swimming motility

    • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology


  6. Further Insights into the Toxicity of Bacillus cytotoxicus Based on Toxin Gene Profiling and Vero Cell Cytotoxicity Assays

    • Toxins

    • Bacillus cytotoxicus belongs to the Bacillus cereus group that also comprises the foodborne pathogen Bacillus cereus sensu stricto, Bacillus anthracis causing anthrax, as well as the biopesticide Bacillus thuringiensis. The first B. cytotoxicus was isolated in the context of a severe food poisoning outbreak leading to fatal cases of diarrheal disease.

      • Bacillus cereus
      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Molecular Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Shiga toxin-producing E. coli Isolated from Different Sources

    • Antibiotics

    • Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is an enteric pathogen associated with human gastroenteritis outbreaks. Extensive use of antibiotics in agriculture selects resistant bacteria that may enter the food chain and potentially causes foodborne illnesses in humans that are less likely to respond to treatment with conventional antibiotics.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

  8. Clonal Lineages, Antimicrobial Resistance, and PVL Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus Associated to Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections from Ambulatory Patients in Portugal

    • Antibiotics

    • Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a leading cause of skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) in the community. In this study, we characterized a collection of 34 S. aureus from SSTIs in ambulatory patients in Portugal and analyzed the presence of Panton–Valentine leucocidin (PVL)-encoding genes and antibiotic-resistance profile, which was correlated with genetic determinants, plasmid carriage, and clonal lineage.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  9. Determination of aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, ochratoxin A and zearalenone in organic wheat flour under different storage conditions

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology

    • International Journal of Food Science & Technology, Accepted Article. Samples of flour derived from an organic wheat seed cultivated in the region Abruzzo (Central Italy) were examined for detection of aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, ochratoxin A and zearalenone after storage in presence of oxygen or under vacuum, for one year.

      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  10. Brassinosteroid Signaling, Crosstalk and, Physiological Functions in Plants Under Heavy Metal Stress

    • Frontiers in Plant Science

    • Brassinosteroids (BRs) are group of plant steroidal hormones that modulate developmental processes and also have pivotal role in stress management. Biosynthesis of BRs takes place through established early C-6 and late C-6 oxidation pathways and the C-22 hydroxylation pathway triggered by activation of the DWF4 gene that acts on multiple intermediates.

  11. Phage susceptibility testing and infectious titer determination through wide-field lensless monitoring of phage plaque growth

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Prisca Perlemoine, Pierre R. Marcoux, Emmanuel Picard, Emmanuel Hadji, Marc Zelsmann, Grégoire Mugnier, Aurélie Marchet, Grégory Resch, Larry O’Connell, Eric Lacot

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  12. Characterization of the robust humoral immune response to GSK2618960, a humanized anti-IL-7 receptor monoclonal antibody, observed in healthy subjects in a Phase 1 study

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Karen Liao, Keguan Chen, Sara Brett, Andrew Gehman, Ann M. Schwartz, George R. Gunn, Stephen L. DeWall

  13. Pre-screening workers to overcome bias amplification in online labour markets

    • PLOS ONE

    • by Ans Vercammen, Alexandru Marcoci, Mark Burgman

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  14. Simultaneous determination of 74 pesticide residues in Panax notoginseng by QuEChERS coupled with gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

    • Food Science and Human Wellness

    • Author(s): Huijun Li, Jieshan Wu, Chao Chen, Wenfeng Xin, Wensheng Zhang

      • Pesticide residues
      • Chemical contaminants

  15. A Fluorescence Biosensor Based on Single-Stranded DNA and Carbon Quantum Dots for Acrylamide Detection

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Qingyi Wei, Peiyao Zhang, Ting Liu, Hongbin Pu, Da-Wen Sun

      • Chemical contaminants

  16. A novel aptasensing method for detecting bisphenol A using the catalytic effect of the Fe3O4/Au nanoparticles on the reduction reaction of the silver ions

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Fatemeh Farahbakhsh, Esmaeil Heydari-Bafrooei, Mehdi Ahmadi, Seyedeh Hoda Hekmatara, Mohammad Sabet

      • Chemical contaminants

  17. Two-color, ultra-sensitive fluorescent strategy for ochratoxin A detection based on hybridization chain reaction and DNA tweezers

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Ge Wu, Zhengwei Xiong, Suk-Heung Oh, Yanrong Ren, Qiang Wang, Lizhu Yang

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  18. Roles of ERK/Akt signals in mitochondria-dependent and endoplasmic reticulum stress-triggered neuronal cell apoptosis induced by 4-methyl-2,4-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)pent-1-ene, a major active metabolite of bisphenol A

    • Toxicology

    • Author(s): Chun-Fa Huang, Shing-Hwa Liu, Chin-Chuan Su, Kai-Min Fang, Cheng-Chieh Yen, Ching-Yao Yang, Feng-Cheng Tang, Jui-Ming Liu, Chin-Ching Wu, Kuan-I Lee, Ya-Wen Chen

      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Concentrations of zearalenone and its metabolites in female wild boars from woodlands and farmlands

    • Toxicon

    • Author(s): Jakub Pałubicki, Robert Kosicki, Magdalena Twarużek, Iwona Ałtyn, Jan Grajewski

      • Mycotoxins
      • Natural toxins

  20. Isolation and identification of fungi found in contaminated fermented milk and antifungal activity of vanillin

    • Food Science and Human Wellness

    • Author(s): Xu Pei, Mekonen Tekliye, Mingsheng Dong

  21. Resveratrol influences the pathogenesis of Aeromonas hydrophila by inhibiting production of aerolysin and biofilm

    • Food Control

    • Author(s): Jing Dong, Lushan Zhang, Yongtao Liu, Shun Zhou, Yibin Yang, Ning Xu, Qiuhong Yang, Xiaohui Ai

      • Bacterial pathogens

  22. Colorimetric aptasensor for on-site detection of oxytetracycline antibiotic in milk

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Komal Birader, Pankaj Kumar, T. Yathirajarao, Jeannie Alice Barla, Shashidhar Reddy, Pankaj Suman

  23. Multianalyte method for the determination of regulated emerging and modified mycotoxins in milk: QuEChERS extraction followed by UHPLC–MS/MS analysis

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Jesús M. González-Jartín, Inés Rodríguez-Cañás, Amparo Alfonso, María J. Sainz, Mercedes R. Vieytes, Ana Gomes, Isabel Ramos, Luis M. Botana

  24. Corrigendum to “Mycotoxins in maize harvested in Republic of Serbia in the period 2012–2015. Part 1: Regulated mycotoxins and its derivatives” [Food Chem. 312 (2020) 126034]

    • Food Chemistry

    • Author(s): Jovana Kos, Elizabet Janić Hajnal, Alexandra Malachová, David Steiner, Milena Stranska, Rudolf Krska, Birgit Poschmaier, Michael Sulyok

  25. Research Note: Characterization of antibiotic resistant phenotypes and linked genes of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from healthy broiler chickens, Karnataka, India

    • Poultry Science

    • Author(s): Khyati Bhardwaj, Suchitra Shenoy M, Dr. Shrikala Baliga, Dr. Unnikrishnan B, Dr. Vasanth Kumar Shetty

      • Bacterial pathogens