Research Publications (Food Safety)

Abstract Establishing efficient methods to combat bacterial biofilms is a major concern. Natural compounds, such as essential oils derived from plants, are among the favored and recommended strategies for combatting bacteria and their biofilm. Therefore, we evaluated the antibiofilm properties of peppermint oil as well as the activities by which it kills bacteria generally and particularly their biofilms.

The present study aimed to elaborate a review of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria in soil, food, aquatic environments, cattle, poultry, and swine farms in Brazil. Initially, the literature database for published papers from 2012 to 2023 was Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), U.S. National Library of Medicine (PubMed), and Google Scholar, through the descriptors: antimicrobial resistance, resistance profile, multidrug resistance, environmental bacteria, and pathogenic bacteria.

Spices are widely used in daily life such as diet and have certain activity. Especially in China, spices have been mainly used as condiments for thousands of years in order to improve the sensory quality of food; in addition, they and their derivatives can also be used as preservatives.

When bacterial pathogens enter the gut, they encounter a complex milieu of signaling molecules and metabolites produced by host and microbial cells or derived from external sources such as the diet. This metabolomic landscape varies throughout the gut, thus establishing a biogeographical gradient of signals that may be sensed by pathogens and resident bacteria alike.

Background: Probiotics are generally considered as safe, but infections may rarely occur in vulnerable patients. Alternatives to live microorganisms to manage dysbiosis may be of interest in these patients. Reuterin is a complex component system exhibiting broad spectrum antimicrobial activity and a possible candidate substance in these cases.

Sulfate Transport Anti-Sigma antagonist domains (Pfam01740) are found in all branches of life, from eubacteria to mammals, as a conserved fold encoded by highly divergent amino acid sequences. These domains are present as part of larger SLC26/SulP anion transporters, where the STAS domain is associated with transmembrane anchoring of the larger multidomain protein.

Glucose oxidase (GOx) with high enzyme activity at low temperature (4°C) is potentially useful for food preservation, especially for aquatic products preservation. A cold-active GOx with approximately 83% similarity to known protein sequences, was isolated from Penicillium sp. MX3343 and expressed in Pichia pastoris X33. Through high cell density fermentation, the yield of recombinant enzyme (named GOxP5) reached 458.6 U/mL.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the antibacterial effect of Chinese wild blueberry extract and its fractions against Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella Enteritidis, and Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Chinese wild blueberry (Vaccinium uliginosum) crude extract (BBE) was obtained using methanol extraction, and sugars plus organic acids (F1), phenolics fraction (F2), and anthocyanins plus proanthocyanidins (F3) fractions were separated using C‐18 Sep‐Pak columns.

The microbiological quality of ready-to-eat (RTE) foods from school cafeterias in Chongqing, China, was evaluated in comparison to a guideline published by a provincial health commission.

The sessile biofilms of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes have increasingly become a critical threat in seafood safety. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of modified atmospheres on the formation ability of V. parahaemolyticus and L. monocytogenes biofilms.

The objective of this study was to determine whether seeds of Brassica oleracea var. italica (i.e. broccoli, an edible plant) produce defensins that inhibit phytopathogenic fungi and pathogenic bacteria of clinical significance. Crude extracts obtained from broccoli seeds were fractioned by molecular exclusion techniques and analyzed by liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry.

Fresh foods are vulnerable to foodborne pathogens which cause foodborne illness and endanger people’s life and safety. The rapid detection of foodborne pathogens is crucial for food safety surveillance. An in situ-synthesized gene chip for the detection of foodborne pathogens on fresh-cut fruits and vegetables was developed.

Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, Shigella flexneri, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio cholerae, Clostridium botulinum type A, Bacillus cereus, Clostridium perfringens Alpha toxin, and Yersinia enterocolitica are 11 common foodborne pathogens. Traditional bacterial culture methods for detecting pathogens are time‐consuming and labor‐intensive.

Author(s): Nguyen Nhat Minh Phuong, Thien Trung Le, John Van Camp, Katleen Raes

In this study, the antibacterial properties of Pimpinella anisum essential oil (PAO) were evaluated against six food‐related bacteria. Afterward, the effects of different concentrations of PAO on microbial, chemical, and organoleptic properties of minced beef were evaluated during refrigerated storage.

The mechanisms of inactivation against Gram‐negative bacteria (GNB) including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, and Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Gram‐positive bacteria (GPB) involving Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus, by dielectric barrier discharge cold atmospheric plasma were elucidated. Both GNB and GPB were exposed to treatment with cold plasma produced from argon/oxygen mixture (90:10) as the working gas for different treatment times (1, 2.5, and 5 min).

The gut microbiome is critical in providing resistance against colonization by exogenous microorganisms. The mechanisms via which the gut microbiota provide colonization resistance (CR) have not been fully elucidated, but they include secretion of antimicrobial products, nutrient competition, support of gut barrier integrity, and bacteriophage deployment.

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The control of Listeria monocytogenes biofilm formation using lactocin AL705 bacteriocin at sub‐minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) through an antiquorum sensing strategy, was preliminarily investigated.

Available online 13 March 2019

Author(s): F.F. Parlapani, S. Michailidou, D.A. Anagnostopoulos, S. Koromilas, K. Kios, K. Pasentsis, F. Psomopoulos, A. Argiriou, S.A. Haroutounian, I.S. Boziaris

Publication date: Available online 23 January 2019

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies

Author(s): Oladipupo Odunayo Olatunde, Soottawat Benjakul, Kitiya Vongkamjan

Available online 18 December 2018

Author(s): Ying Li, Xiaoyan Pei, Jun Yan, Danru Liu, Huaning Zhang, Bo Yu, Ning Li, Dajin Yang

Tonya M. Santaus, Shan Li, Paula Ladd, Amanda Harvey, Shannon Cole, O. Colin Stine, Chris D. Geddes

Available online 11 July 2018

Author(s): Xiao-hong Sun, Tong-tong Zhou, Cai-hong Wei, Wei-qing Lan, Yong Zhao, Ying-jie Pan, Vivian C.H. Wu

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