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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. Nondestructive testing methods for pesticide residue in food commodities: A review

    • Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
    • Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, EarlyView. Pesticides play an important role in increasing the overall yield and productivity of agricultural foods by controlling pests, insects, and numerous plant-related diseases. However, the overuse of pesticides has resulted in pesticide contamination of food products and water bodies, as well as disruption of ecological and environmental systems.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  2. Determination of Multi-pesticides Residues in Jasmine Flower and Its Scented Tea

    • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
    • For minor crops such as jasmine, the lack of pesticide registration and maximum residue limits are important issues that need to be solved in order to facilitate trading and ensure food safety. Meanwhile, reliable and quick analytical methods for multi-pesticide residues in these commodities are few, but required by various stakeholders.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  3. Automatic detection of pesticide residues on the surface of lettuce leaves using images of feature wavelengths spectrum

    • Frontiers in Plant Science
    • The inappropriate application of pesticides to vegetable crops often results in environmental pollution, which seriously impacts the environment and human health. Given that current methods of pesticide residue detection are associated with issues such as low accuracy, high equipment cost, and complex flow, this study puts forward a new method for detecting pesticide residues on lettuce leaves.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  4. Analysis of veterinary drug- and pesticide residues in pig muscle by LC-QTOF-MS

    • Food Control
    • A liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) method for screening, quantification and identification of veterinary drugs (antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, anthelmintics, coccidiostatics and tranquilizers) and pesticide residues was validated in pig (porcine) muscle.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Pesticide residues
  5. Sample Preparation Approach by In Situ Formation of Supramolecular Solvent Microextraction for Enrichment of Neonicotinoid Insecticide Residues

    • Food Analytical Methods
    • An effective microextraction, namely, in situ formation of supramolecular solvent (SUPRAS) method, was investigated for the determination of neonicotinoid insecticides prior to high performance liquid chromatographic analysis. The microextraction method has been utilized for the first time in the literature for separation and preconcentration of neonicotinoid insecticides.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  6. Collection of Data on Pesticides in Maize and Tomato in Africa: Protocol for Africa Pesticide Residue Survey Study

    • Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
    • Pesticide use has grown rapidly in West Africa over the past decades. Regulatory capacity has not kept pace with the rapid proliferation of pesticide products and on-farm use. As a result, health and environmental impacts from the growing use of pesticides, despite their potential importance to food safety, remain largely unmonitored, underreported, and poorly understood by key stakeholders.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
      • Produce Safety
      • Post Harvest
      • Pre Harvest
  7. Efficient fabrication of pH-modified graphene nano-adsorbent for effective determination and monitoring of multi-class pesticide residues in market-fresh vegetables by GC-MS

    • Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
    • Toxic pesticide residues in edible vegetables cause major health risks for consumers, hence quantifying them is essential. However, simultaneous and trace level determination of xenobiotic residues of various classes in complex food matrices is still a challenging analytical task.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  8. Pesticide Residues and Unauthorized Dyes as Adulteration Markers in Chilli Pepper and Tomato

    • International Journal of Food Science
    • To assess the contamination of processed chilli pepper and tomatoes, a report over the past four decades since the establishment of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) was retrieved and analysed. Out of the 887 notification reports assessed for eligibility, 446 were found regarding chilli pepper and tomato contamination. This study identified India as the country of origin with the highest number of reported cases relating to chilli pepper contamination.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  9. Terminal residue of fungicides in agro-products from north China: Assessment of human exposure potential

    • Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
    • The excessive and unreasonable use of fungicides can inevitably lead to increased residues in food and ultimately cause harm to human health. To detect the residues of 8 fungicides in agro-products from 2018-2021 in Hebei province China, the method with modified QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe) by Ultra performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectroscopy (UPLC-MS/MS) was developed.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  10. Levels of Contamination by Pesticide Residues, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in Honeys Retailed in Europe

    • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
    • Honey is consumed worldwide because of its nutritional, therapeutic and medicinal properties. Generally, honey should reach the consumer in a pure form, but it is often contaminated in various ways. Thus, this study was designed to check for the presence of pesticide residues, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) levels, and the content of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) in selected European honeys (26 samples) obtained from shops.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  11. Determination of 301 pesticide residues in tropical fruits imported to Turkey using LC–MS/MS and GC-MS

    • Food Control
    • This study was carried out to detect pesticide residues in tropical fruits. QuEChERS method was validated to determine 301 different pesticides in high water content commodities and high acid content commodities by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Matrix effects were determined for all pesticides in banana, blueberry, lime, mango, and pineapple.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  12. Multiresidue analysis of pesticides in four different pomegranate cultivars: Investigating matrix effect variability by GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS

    • Food Chemistry
    • Matrix effect (ME) is unavoidable in multiresidue pesticide analysis, even when using highly advanced instruments, and differences in MEs can affect residue analytical accuracy due to pomegranate cultivar composition variations.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  13. Wide-Scope Multi-residue analysis of pesticides in beef by gas chromatography coupled with quadrupole Orbitrap mass spectrometry

    • Food Chemistry
    • Increasing pesticide contamination in foods of animal origin has made the wide-scope multi-residue analysis of pesticides an international concern. By using 191 pesticides, this study investigates a sensitive and reliable method for multi-residue analysis of pesticides in beef to determine the extent of the application of this method. The QuEChERS method was employed to extract and purify the pesticides as C18 was utilized as the absorbents.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  14. Occurrence and risk exposure assessment of multiple pesticide residues in edible mint in China

    • Journal of Food Composition and Analysis
    • In China, the status and risks of pesticide residues in edible mint is essentially unknown. In this study, we evaluated the residual status and associated risks of 208 pesticides in edible mints. Among the 16 pesticide residues detected, there were eight fungicides, six insecticides, and two herbicides, with difenoconazole exhibiting the highest detection rate of 25.55%. A proportion of 53.28% of the mint samples were detected with at least one pesticide residue.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  15. A novel bacterial strain Burkholderia sp. F25 capable of degrading diffusible signal factor signal shows strong biocontrol potential

    • Frontiers in Plant Science
    • Vast quantities of synthetic pesticides have been widely applied in various fields to kill plant pathogens, resulting in increased pathogen resistance and decreased effectiveness of such chemicals. In addition, the increased presence of pesticide residues affects living organisms and the environment largely on a global scale.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  16. Plants control the structure of mycorrhizal and pathogenic fungal communities in soil in a 50-year maize monoculture experiment

    • Plant and Soil
    • Aims Saprotrophic soil fungi participate in biomass mineralization, inhibit pathogen development and promote plant growth. Pathogens accumulate in soil and decrease crop yields. The structure of fungal communities is determined mainly by the organic matter content and pH of soil.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  17. Development of QuEChERS-based multiresidue analytical methods to determine pesticides in corn, grapes and alfalfa

    • Food Chemistry
    • Analytical methods based on QuEChERS and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry were developed for the determination of 42 polar and semi-polar pesticides in three representative vegetable matrices, viz. corn, grapes and alfalfa. A 26-2 fractional factorial experimental design was used to cost-effectively optimize the extraction procedure. The optimal analytical approaches were validated in terms of linearity, sensitivity, trueness, and precision.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  18. The involvement of organic acids in soil fertility, plant health and environment sustainability

    • Archives of Microbiology
    • Increasing demand for safe food by an ever-growing human population emphasizes the urgency for increasing crop yields and reducing the losses caused by abiotic and biotic stresses; a partial solution to this problem is to develop a better understanding of plant–microbe interactions. Plant roots continuously release a wide range of compounds including organic acids in root exudates.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  19. Rapid screening of 420 pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables using ultra high performance liquid chromatography combined with quadrupole-time of flight mass spectrometry

    • Food Science and Human Wellness
    • A new method for screening and identification 420 pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables by ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole-time of flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-Q-TOF/MS) were developed. The samples were extracted with acetonitrile/acetic acid (99:1, V/V), and clean-up by SinChERS-Nano (single-step, cheap, effective, rugged, safe, nano) column, determined by UPLC-Q-TOF/MS.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  20. Integrated physiological, metabolomic, and proteome analysis of Alpinia officinarum Hance essential oil inhibits the growth of Fusarium oxysporum of Panax notoginseng

    • Frontiers in Microbiology
    • Fusarium oxysporum is the main pathogen of Panax notoginseng root rot, and chemical fungicides remain the primary measures to control the disease. Plant essential oil (EO) is a volatile plant secondary metabolic product that does not produce any residue to replace chemical pesticide. To comprehensively understand the antifungal mechanism of Alpinia officinarum Hance EO, the physiological indicators, proteome and metabolome were analyzed using F.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  21. Development of a polyurethane‐coated thin film solid phase microextraction device for multi‐residue monitoring of pesticides in fruit and tea beverages

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. A novel solid phase microextraction device coated with an efficient and cheap thin film of polyurethane was developed for trace determination of 13 widely used pesticides in fruit and tea beverages. A round-shaped polyurethane film covering the bottom of a glass vial was fabricated as the sorbent to exhibit a superior capacity of preconcentrating target compounds and reducing matrix interferences.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  22. The in silico and in vitro analysis of donepezil derivatives for Anopheles acetylcholinesterase inhibition

    • PLOS ONE
    • 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.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals
      • Pesticide residues
  23. Controllable assembly of high sticky and flexibility surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate for on-site target pesticide residues detection

    • Food Chemistry
    • Pesticide residues in fruit and vegetable constitute a great threat to mankind's health, and a technique of rapid, cost-effective, ultra-sensitive and non-destructive analysis is especially critical for on-site detection in practical application. A strategy was utilized to fabricate highly viscous and flexible WPU@AgNPs sticky tape for the rapid extraction and Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) assay of thiabendazole residues on the surface of fruits.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  24. Research on weed identification method in rice fields based on UAV remote sensing

    • Frontiers in Plant Science
    • Rice is the world’s most important food crop and is of great importance to ensure world food security. In the rice cultivation process, weeds are a key factor that affects rice production. Weeds in the field compete with rice for sunlight, water, nutrients, and other resources, thus affecting the quality and yield of rice. The chemical treatment of weeds in rice fields using herbicides suffers from the problem of sloppy herbicide application methods.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  25. Evaluation of matrix effects for pesticide residue analysis by QuEChERs coupled with UHPLC-MS/MS in complex herbal matrix

    • Food Chemistry
    • Matrix effects (MEs) can heavily affect the accuracy and reproducibility of a pesticide residue analysis method, especially in complex matrices such as herbs. Therefore, it is of great importance to assess MEs of pesticides in herbal matrices. In this research, the MEs of 28 pesticides and their metabolites in five types of herbs representing different medicinal parts were evaluated by UHPLC-MS/MS analysis after QuEChERs pretreatment.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues