Research Publications (Food Safety)

Author(s): Zhenbo Xu, Ziqi Liu, Thanapop Soteyome, Jingjing Hua, Liang Zhang, Yanyan Li, Lei Yuan, Yanrui Ye, Zhao Cai, Liang Yang, Ling Chen, Janette M. Harro, Birthe Veno Kjellerup, Junyan Liu

Author(s): Esther De Rycke, Astrid Foubert, Peter Dubruel, Oleg I. Bol'hakov, Sarah De Saeger, Natalia Beloglazova

Author(s): Zhe-Yu Yang, Wei-Liang Chen

Author(s): Amin N. Olaimat, Mahmoud Abu Ghoush, Murad Al-Holy, Haneen Abu Hilal, Anas A. Al-Nabulsi, Tareq M. Osaili, Mutamed Ayyash, Richard A. Holley

Author(s): Qing Chen, Yaxin Liu, Ziyi Zhang, Ke Li, Bin Liu, Tianli Yue

Author(s): Bowen Chen, Jiaming Huang, Yang Liu, Haiquan Liu, Yong Zhao, Jing Jing Wang

Author(s): Jade Derrick, Philippa Hollinghurst, Sarah O'Brien, Nicola Elviss, David J. Allen, Miren Iturriza-Gómara

Author(s): Wenxuan Dong, Gang Liu, Kanglei Zhang, Yun Tan, Hui Zou, Yan Yuan, Jianhong Gu, Ruilong Song, Jiaqiao Zhu, Zongping Liu

Author(s): Fasih Ullah Haider, Jeffrey A. Coulter, Sardar Alam Cheema, Muhammad Farooq, Jun Wu, Renzhi Zhang, Guo Shuaijie, Cai Liqun

Author(s): Tingting Fan, Yanli Xie, Weibin Ma

Author(s): A.M. Ashcraft, M.E. Coles, L.C. Beer, B.D.M. Graham, G. Tellez-Isaias, B. Wooming, B.M. Hargis

Author(s): Tuomas Pylkkö, Polina Ilina, Päivi Tammela

Author(s): Xiongyi Miao, Yupei Hao, Hongwei Liu, Zhouqing Xie, Dan Miao, Xudong He

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are a type of natural phytotoxin that contaminate food and feed and become an environmental health risk to humans and livestock. PAs exert toxicity that requires metabolic activation by cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A, and case reports showed that fetuses are quite susceptible to PAs toxicity.

The pathogen Salmonella enterica is a leading cause of infection worldwide. Nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) serovars typically cause inflammatory diarrhea in healthy individuals, and can cause bacteremia in immunocompromised patients, children, and the elderly. Management of NTS infection poses a challenge because antibiotic treatment prolongs fecal shedding of the pathogen and is thus not recommended for most patients.

Enteric infection with Shigella spp. can lead to symptoms ranging from acute watery diarrhea to sudden, severe dysentery. Approximately 212 000 diarrheal deaths annually are attributed to Shigella with a disproportionate impact in low-resource countries. The impact in under-resourced countries was illustrated by a reanalysis of the Global Enteric Multicenter Study which found that Shigella was the leading pathogen associated with moderate-to severe diarrhea in children under 5 years old.

Used oyster shells are considered a waste product of the seafood industry. Herein, we hypothesize that oyster shells can be used as a raw ingredient to synthesize effective sorbents.

This work aims at isolating a fungal source for l-asparaginase production to be applied in reducing acrylamide levels in coffee beans at non-cytotoxic levels. An l-asparaginase-producing fungus was isolated from an agricultural soil sample and identified as Penicillium crustosum NMKA 511.

The aquatic environment is constantly exposed to chemical pollutants from agriculture and the urban environment. In this study, the effects of Bisphenol A, Naphthalene, and Butachlor on metabolic and antioxidant enzymes of goldfish were investigated during subacute exposure. The samples (n = 144, 100.97 ± 31.47 g) were distributed randomly in 12 glass aquaria (70 L) with a stocking density of 12 fish for each.

Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) is a hydroxylated metabolite of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) that can be excreted in milk of cows after consuming contaminated feed. The aim of this study consisted of a field monitoring to assess the contamination levels of AFB1 in 60 feed samples from two feeding systems for high-yielding dairy cows and of AFM1 in the corresponding raw milk samples.

The insect gut is home to a wide range of microorganisms, including several bacterial species. Such bacterial symbionts provide various benefits to their insect hosts. One of such services is providing metabolites that resist infections. Little data are available about gut-inhabiting bacteria for several insect groups.

Multiple mycotoxins were tested in milled rice samples (n = 200) from traders at different milling points within the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya. Traders provided the names of the cultivar, village where paddy was cultivated, sampling locality, miller, and month of paddy harvest between 2018 and 2019.

Maize silage, which in Europe is the main feed for dairy cattle in winter, can be contaminated by mycotoxins. Mycotoxigenic Fusarium spp. originating from field infections may survive in badly sealed silages or re-infect at the cutting edge during feed-out. In this way, mycotoxins produced in the field may persist during the silage process. In addition, typical silage fungi such as Penicillium spp. and Aspergillus spp. survive in silage conditions and produce mycotoxins.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. From the first notification reporting to the WHO a cluster of coronavirus in Wuhan City (China), over 114 million cases of SARS‐CoV‐2 have been confirmed, with more than 2,530,000 deaths, and over 400,000 new cases and 10,000 deaths daily. Numerous viruses are susceptible to contaminate crops during growth, harvesting, handling, marketing and minimally processing, and these steps share one common factor which is human.

Cadmium (Cd) pollution in soils is an increasing problem worldwide, and it affects crop production and safety. We identified Cd-tolerant and -sensitive cultivars by testing 258 accessions of Medicago truncatula at seedling stage, using the relative root growth (RRG) as an indicator of Cd tolerance.