Research Publications (Food Safety)

by Amir Zarrabi, Reza Ghasemi-Fasaei, Abdolmajid Ronaghi, Sedigheh Zeinali, Sedigheh Safarzadeh

by Matti Viluksela, Pertti Saurola, Juhani Koivusaari, Matts Finnlund, Anders Bignert, Riikka Airaksinen, Päivi Ruokojärvi, Matti Verta, Hannu Kiviranta, Jouni T. Tuomisto, Panu Rantakokko

by Layale Moussa, Hussein F. Hassan, Ioannis N. Savvaidis, Layal Karam

by Shinnosuke Sawano, Satoshi Kodera, Naoto Setoguchi, Kengo Tanabe, Shunichi Kushida, Junji Kanda, Mike Saji, Mamoru Nanasato, Hisataka Maki, Hideo Fujita, Nahoko Kato, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Minami Suzuki, Masao Takahashi, Naoko Sawada, Masao Yamasaki, Masataka Sato, Susumu Katsushika, Hiroki Shinohara, Norifumi Takeda, Katsuhito Fujiu, Masao Daimon, Hiroshi Akazawa, Hiroyuki Morita, Issei Komuro

by Fernanda Torres Quitete, Ananda Vitória Silva Teixeira, Thamara Cherem Peixoto, Bruna Cadete Martins, Geórgia Correa Atella, Angela de Castro Resende, Daniela de Barros Mucci, Fabiane Martins, Julio Beltrame Daleprane

by Daniel Ciccarone, Nicole Holm, Jeff Ondocsin, Allison Schlosser, Jason Fessel, Amanda Cowan, Sarah G. Mars

Background

Illicitly manufactured fentanyls and stimulants are implicated in the escalating US mortality from drug overdose. San Francisco, California (SF) has seen declining fentanyl injection while smoking has increased. Beliefs and behaviors surrounding this development are not well understood.

Methods

by Lingyun Li, Baoyan Li, Henghua Qu, Shan Tian, Zimeng Xu, Lulu Zhao, Xueqin Li, Baoyou Liu In the present study, we attempted to use melatonin combined with germination treatment to remove pesticide residues from contaminated grains. High levels of pesticide residues were detected in soybean seeds after soaking with chlorothalonil (10 mM) and malathion (1 mM) for 2 hours.

by Zahra Alinezhad, Mohammad Hashemi, Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany

Objective

Although milk and dairy products are almost complete food, they can contain toxic heavy elements with potential hazards for consumers. This review aims to provide a comprehensive report on the occurrence, concentration, and health risks of selected heavy metals in pasteurized and sterilized milk recorded worldwide.

Methods

by Erin A. Hull, Rebekah R. Stiling, Marco Barajas, Rebecca B. Neumann, Julian D. Olden, James E. Gawel Lake sediments store metal contaminants from historic pesticide and herbicide use and mining operations. Historical regional smelter operations in the Puget Sound lowlands have resulted in arsenic concentrations exceeding 200 μg As g-1 in urban lake sediments.

by Shary Tamara Schneider, Rudi Isbrandt, Heidrun Gehlen, Nina Langkabel, Diana Meemken The ‘positive list for equines’ (Regulation (EC) No 1950/2006) was implemented in the European Union in 2006. The drugs listed are approved for use in slaughter equines under certain conditions, although those drugs are not approved for use in livestock and are not listed in Table 1 of the annex to Regulation (EU) No 37/2010.

by Hilomi Iwai, Hideki Yamamoto Cattle-related injuries are a significant contributing factor in 84.3% of livestock-related incidents in Hokkaido Japan. The specific countermeasures to respond to its characteristics are needed because cattle move freely. This study examined the JA Kyosai mutual aid payment claim form data of the agricultural work-related incidents that occurred from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2016.

by Magdalena R. Raykova, Katie McGuire, William J. Peveler, Damion K. Corrigan, Fiona L. Henriquez, Andrew C. Ward Tetracycline antibiotics are used extensively in veterinary medicine, but the majority of the administrated dose is eliminated unmodified from the animal through various excretion routes including urine, faeces and milk. In dairy animals, limits on residues secreted in milk are strictly controlled by legislation.

by Ann-Katrin Heymann, Karina Schnabel, Fabian Billenkamp, Susanne Bühler, Jana Frahm, Susanne Kersten, Dirk von Soosten, Ulrich Meyer, Sven Dänicke Maternal exposure to various stimuli can influence pre- and postnatal development of the offspring. This potential has been discussed for glyphosate (GLY), active substance in some non-selective herbicides. Accordingly, present study investigated putative effects of GLY residues in rations on cows and their offspring.

by M. L. Dotaniya, M. C. Nagar, Amita Sharma, C. K. Dotaniya, Rajendiran S., V. B. Singh, R. K. Doutaniya, J. K. Saha Soil fertility management and crop productivity both are inter-related need extensive attention for sustainability. Industries are being built, which over time produces a lot of effluents containing heavy metal(s), which is then dumped on healthy soils and water bodies.

by Muhammad Waqas Mazhar, Muhammad Ishtiaq, Mehwish Maqbool, Muhammad Ajaib, Iqbal Hussain, Tanveer Hussain, Abida Parveen, Sumaira Thind, Tauqeer Sardar, Raheel Akram, Muhammad Azeem, Alia Gul Mung bean (Vigna radiata L.) grown under heavy metals such as cadmium stress shows poor growth patterns and yield attributes which can be extenuated by the application of calcium and organic manure to the contaminated soil.

by Felipe Pinheiro Vilela, Dália dos Prazeres Rodrigues, Marc William Allard, Juliana Pfrimer Falcão Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Infantis (S. Infantis) is a non-typhoid, zoonotic and foodborne serovar with worldwide distribution, and often associated with increasing antimicrobial resistance. Efflux pumps are antimicrobial resistance mechanisms able to promote and increase resistance levels to multiple distinct drug classes.

by M. Chaithra, T. Prameeladevi, L. Prasad, Aditi Kundu, S. N. Bhagyasree, S. Subramanian, Deeba Kamil A desirable substitute for chemical pesticides is mycopesticides. In the current investigation, rDNA-ITS (Internal transcribed spacer) and TEF (Transcriptional Elongation Factor) sequencing were used for molecular identification of six Beauveria bassiana strains.

by Thankhoe A. Rants’o, Divan G. van Greunen, C. Johan van der Westhuizen, Darren L. Riley, Jenny-Lee Panayides, Lizette L. Koekemoer, Robyn L. van Zyl Current studies on Anopheles anticholinesterase insecticides are focusing on identifying agents with high selectivity towards Anopheles over mammalian targets. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from electric eel is often used as the bioequivalent enzyme to study ligands designed for activity and inhibition in human.

by Durre Shahwar, Mohammad Yunus Khalil Ansari, Younghoon Park Lens culinaris is a proteinaceous food crop that is consumed worldwide for protein requirements. Mutation breeding has been used to improve protein content, yield, and related traits, as well as to select highly desirable mutants that are economically significant.

by Nehal A. Erfan, Mohamed S. Mahmoud, Hak Yong Kim, Nasser A. M. Barakat Nanofibrous morphology and the doping technique can overcome the problem of electron/hole fast recombination and improve the activity of titanium oxide-based photocatalysts. In this study, nanoparticulate and nanofibrous forms of CdTiO3-incorporated TiO2 were synthesized with different cadmium contents; the morphology and composition were determined by SEM, TEM, EDX, and XRD techniques.

by Michael Anger, Christian Wendelborn, Eva C. Winkler, Christoph Schickhardt Background Data Sharing is widely recognised as crucial for accelerating scientific research and improving its quality. However, data sharing is still not a common practice. Funding agencies tend to facilitate the sharing of research data by both providing incentives and requiring data sharing as part of their policies and conditions for awarding grants.

by Tahmina Islam, M. K. Reddy Non-essential toxic heavy metal like cadmium (Cd2+) interferes with the plant growth and development in many ways. Cd2+ travels via plant transportation system, specifically through xylem and may integrate into the food chain causing unfavorable condition in human health. Therefore, strategies to develop Cd2+ tolerance and less accumulation in the plant system require urgent attention.

by Carolyn B. Meyer, Timothy A. Walker, Alex B. Francisco, Emily B. Morrison, Joseph S. Meyer Current estimates of terrestrial bird losses across Europe from ingestion of lead ammunition are based on uncertain or generic assumptions. A method is needed to develop defensible European-specific estimates compatible with available data that does not require long-term field studies. We propose a 2-step method using carcass data and population models.

by Natakorn Nokchan, Thidathip Wongsurawat, Piroon Jenjaroenpun, Perapon Nitayanon, Chanwit Tribuddharat Background The increasing rate of antimicrobial-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae poses a considerable public health threat due to the difficulty in treating gonococcal infections.

by Ayushman Gadnayak, Budheswar Dehury, Ananya Nayak, Sudipta Jena, Ambika Sahoo, Pratap Chandra Panda, Asit Ray, Sanghamitra Nayak Inflammation is caused by a cascade of events, one of which is the metabolism of arachidonic acid, that begins with oxidation by the enzyme 5-lipoxygenase.