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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. Use of the receptor binding assay for determination of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in bivalve molluscs from Great Britain and the assessment of method performance in oysters

    • Toxicon
    • Publication date: 15 June 2018
      Source:, Volume 148

      Author(s): Andrew D. Turner, Maggie Broadwater, Frances Van Dolah

      • Shellfish toxins
  2. Paralytic shellfish toxin producing Aphanizomenon gracile strains isolated from Lake Iznik, Turkey

    • Toxicon
    • Publication date: 15 June 2018
      Source:, Volume 148

      Author(s): Mete Yilmaz, Amanda J. Foss, Andrew I. Selwood, Mihriban Özen, Michael Boundy

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins
  3. Exposure assessment to paralytic shellfish toxins through the shellfish consumption in Korea

    • Food Research International
    • Publication date: June 2018
      , Volume 108

      Author(s): Choonshik Shin, Hyejin Jo, Sheen-Hee Kim, Gil-Jin Kang

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins
  4. Toxins, Vol. 10, Pages 141: Dose-Response Modelling of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) in Humans

    • Toxins
    • Toxins, Vol. 10, Pages 141: Dose-Response Modelling of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) in Humans

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins10040141

      Authors:
      Nathalie Arnich
      Anne Thébault

      • Natural toxins
      • Shellfish toxins
  5. Sources of paralytic shellfish toxin accumulation variability in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

    • Toxicon
    • Publication date: Available online 27 December 2017
      Source:

      Author(s): Émilien Pousse, Jonathan Flye-Sainte-Marie, Marianne Alunno-Bruscia, Hélène Hégaret, Fred Jean

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins
  6. Proton-pumping rhodopsins are abundantly expressed by microbial eukaryotes in a high-Arctic fjord

    • Environmental Microbiology
    • Summary

      • Shellfish toxins
  7. Toxins, Vol. 10, Pages 2: Tectus niloticus (Tegulidae, Gastropod) as a Novel Vector of Ciguatera Poisoning: Detection of Pacific Ciguatoxins in Toxic Samples from Nuku Hiva Island (French Polynesia)

    • Toxins
    • Toxins, Vol. 10, Pages 2: Tectus niloticus (Tegulidae, Gastropod) as a Novel Vector of Ciguatera Poisoning: Detection of Pacific Ciguatoxins in Toxic Samples from Nuku Hiva Island (French Polynesia)

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins10010002

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins
  8. Identifying protist consumers of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes in the surface ocean using stable isotope probing

    • Environmental Microbiology
    • Abstract

      • Shellfish toxins
  9. Evidence of increased toxic Alexandrium tamarense dinoflagellate blooms in the eastern Bering Sea in the summers of 2004 and 2005

    • PLOS ONE
    • Masafumi Natsuike, Rui Saito, Amane Fujiwara, Kohei Matsuno, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Naonobu Shiga, Toru Hirawake, Takashi Kikuchi, Shigeto Nishino, Ichiro Imai

      • Shellfish toxins
  10. Neosaxitoxin, a Paralytic Shellfish Poison toxin, effectively manages bucked shins pain, as a local long-acting pain blocker in an equine model

    • Toxicon
    • Publication date: Available online 13 November 2017
      Source:

      Author(s): Gricel Riquelme, Joaquín M. Sepúlveda, Zaki Al Ghumgham, Miguel del Campo, Cecilia Montero, Nestor Lagos

      • Shellfish toxins
  11. Paper-based microfluidic aptasensor for food safety

    • Journal of Food Safety
    • Abstract

      • Shellfish toxins
  12. Differential host mortality explains the effect of high temperature on the prevalence of a marine pathogen

    • PLOS ONE
    • Timothy J. Sullivan, Joseph E. Neigel

      • Shellfish toxins
  13. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 308: Profiling of Extracellular Toxins Associated with Diarrhetic Shellfish Poison in Prorocentrum lima Culture Medium by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Mass Spectrometry

    • Toxins
    • Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 308: Profiling of Extracellular Toxins Associated with Diarrhetic Shellfish Poison in Prorocentrum lima Culture Medium by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Mass Spectrometry

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins9100308

      Authors:
      Lei Pan
      Junhui Chen
      Huihui Shen
      Xiuping He
      Guangjiu Li
      Xincheng Song
      Deshan Zhou
      Chengjun Sun

      • Shellfish toxins
  14. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 250: The Preparation and Identification of a Monoclonal Antibody against Domoic Acid and Establishment of Detection by Indirect Competitive ELISA

    • Toxins
    • Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 250: The Preparation and Identification of a Monoclonal Antibody against Domoic Acid and Establishment of Detection by Indirect Competitive ELISA

      Toxins doi: 10.3390/toxins9080250

      Authors:
      Abdullah Saeed
      Sumei Ling
      Jun Yuan
      Shihua Wang

      • Shellfish toxins
  15. Effect of CO2-induced seawater acidification on growth, photosynthesis and inorganic carbon acquisition of the harmful bloom-forming marine microalga, Karenia mikimotoi

    • PLOS ONE
    • Shunxin Hu, Bin Zhou, You Wang, Ying Wang, Xinxin Zhang, Yan Zhao, Xinyu Zhao, Xuexi Tang

      • Shellfish toxins
  16. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 213: Whole Transcriptomic Analysis Provides Insights into Molecular Mechanisms for Toxin Biosynthesis in a Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium catenella (ACHK-T)

    • Toxins
    • Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), a group of neurotoxic alkaloids, are the most potent biotoxins for aquatic ecosystems and human health. Marine dinoflagellates and freshwater cyanobacteria are two producers of PSTs. The biosynthesis mechanism of PSTs has been well elucidated in cyanobacteria; however, it remains ambiguous in dinoflagellates.

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins
  17. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 205: Biooxidation of Ciguatoxins Leads to Species-Specific Toxin Profiles

    • Toxins
    • Ciguatoxins (CTXs) contaminate fish worldwide and cause the foodborne illness ciguatera. In the Pacific, these toxins are produced by the dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, which accumulates in fish through the food chain and undergoes oxidative modification, giving rise to numerous analogs.

      • Shellfish toxins
      • Natural toxins
  18. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 206: Development and Validation of a Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method Coupled with Dispersive Solid-Phase Extraction for Simultaneous Quantification of Eight Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins in Shellfish

    • Toxins
    • In this study, a high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method was developed for simultaneous determination of eight paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins, including saxitoxin (STX), neosaxitoxin (NEO), gonyautoxins (GTX1–4) and the N-sulfo carbamoyl toxins C1 and C2, in sea shellfish.

      • Shellfish toxins
  19. Proposed Biotransformation Pathways for New Metabolitesof Paralytic Shellfish Toxins Based on Field and Experimental MusselSamples

    • Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
    • A seafood poisoning event occurred in Qinhuangdao, China, in April 2016. Subsequently, the causative mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) were harvested and analyzed to reveal a high concentration [∼10 758 μg of saxitoxin (STX) equiv kg–1] of paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs), including gonyautoxin (GTX)1/4 and GTX2/3, as well as new metabolites 11-hydroxy-STX (M2), 11,11-dihydroxy-STX (M4), open-ring 11,11-dihydroxy-STX (M6), 11-hydroxy-neosaxitoxin (NEO) (M8), and 11,11-dihydroxy-NEO (M10).

      • Shellfish toxins
  20. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 190: Prevalence, Variability and Bioconcentration of Saxitoxin-Group in Different Marine Species Present in the Food Chain

    • Toxins
    • The saxitoxin-group (STX-group) corresponds to toxic metabolites produced by cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates of the genera Alexandrium, Gymnodinium, and Pyrodinium. Over the last decade, it has been possible to extrapolate the areas contaminated with the STX-group worldwide, including Chile, a phenomenon that has affected ≈35% of the Southern Pacific coast territory, generating a high economic impact.

      • Shellfish toxins
  21. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 95: Multiple Stressors at the Land-Sea Interface: Cyanotoxins at the Land-Sea Interface in the Southern California Bight

    • Toxins
    • Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater ecosystems have received considerable attention in recent years, but their occurrence and potential importance at the land-sea interface has not been widely recognized. Here we present the results of a survey of discrete samples conducted in more than fifty brackish water sites along the coastline of southern California.

      • Shellfish toxins
  22. Toxins, Vol. 9, Pages 73: Acute Toxicities of the Saxitoxin Congeners Gonyautoxin 5, Gonyautoxin 6, Decarbamoyl Gonyautoxin 2&3, Decarbamoyl Neosaxitoxin, C-1&2 and C-3&4 to Mice by Various Routes of Administration

    • Toxins
    • Paralytic shellfish poisoning results from consumption of seafood naturally contaminated by saxitoxin and its congeners, the paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs). The levels of such toxins are regulated internationally, and maximum permitted concentrations in seafood have been established in many countries. A mouse bioassay is an approved method for estimating the levels of PSTs in seafood, but this is now being superseded in many countries by instrumental methods of analysis.

      • Natural toxins
      • Shellfish toxins
  23. Development and validation of an accurate and sensitive LC-ESI-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins in shellfish and tunicate

    • Food Control
    • Publication date: July 2017
      , Volume 77

      Author(s): Choonshik Shin, Haerim Jang, Hyejin Jo, Hye-Jeong Kim, Dong-Sul Kim, Jin-Hwan Hong

      • Shellfish toxins
  24. In vitro bioaccessibility of the marine biotoxins okadaic acid, dinophysistoxin-2 and their 7-O-acyl fatty acid ester derivatives in raw and steamed shellfish

    • Food and Chemical Toxicology
    • Publication date: Available online 12 January 2017
      Food and Chemical Toxicology

      Author(s): Diana Manita, Ricardo N. Alves, Ana Catarina Braga, Fabiola Fogaça, António Marques, Pedro Reis Costa

      • Shellfish toxins
  25. Climatic regulation of the neurotoxin domoic acid [Environmental Sciences]

    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • Domoic acid is a potent neurotoxin produced by certain marine microalgae that can accumulate in the foodweb, posing a health threat to human seafood consumers and wildlife in coastal regions worldwide. Evidence of climatic regulation of domoic acid in shellfish over the past 20 y in the Northern California Current...

      • Shellfish toxins