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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. Modelling the Dynamics of Microbial Population and Salmonella spp. in Milk Kefir

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Kefir is a fermented dairy product based on the fermentation of milk by bacteria and yeasts. It is produced by adding kefir grains, consisting of a consortium of microorganisms, to milk in order to start a natural fermentation (Garofalo et al., 2020).

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Salmonella

  2. Application of different orifices for hydrodynamic cavitational effects on deactivation of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus in milk

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Thermal processing reduces the nutritional value and flavour of milk due to the application of heat, although it has the benefits for safety and shelf life by eliminating microbes. Also, the growing preference of consumers for natural and minimally processed foods has led to an increase in the use of nonthermal milk processing techniques. Hydrodynamic processing (HC) is one such recent, inventive, scalable, and economically favourable nonthermal technique.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  3. The Cleanability of Laser Etched Surfaces with Repeated Fouling using Staphylococcus aureus and Milk

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Biofouling is a serious problem in the food industry, and one way to control biofouling is using topographically patterned surfaces. This in vitro study used a laser surface texturing process to produce six differently patterned topographies which were analysed for their topography and wettability with repeated fouling and cleaning.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Staphylococcus aureus

  4. A Comparison of Vegetable Leaves and Replicated Biomimetic Surfaces on the Binding of Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Biofouling in the food industry is a huge issue, and one possible way to reduce surface fouling is to understand how naturally cleaning surfaces based on biomimetic designs influence bacterial binding. Four self-cleaning leaves (Tenderheart cabbage, Cauliflower, White cabbage and Leek) were analysed for their surface properties and artificial replicates were produced.

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  5. Activity Enhancement of Trametes versicolor Aflatoxin B1-Degrading Enzyme (TV-AFB1D) by Molecular Docking and Site-Directed Mutagenesis Techniques

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Peizhou Yang, Shuhua Lu, Wei Xiao, Zhi Zheng, Suwei Jiang, Shaotong Jiang, Shuying Jiang, Jieshun Cheng, Danfeng Zhang

      • Aflatoxins
      • Natural toxins

  6. Thermal inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes in the Shaka agitated reciprocal retort: Influence of food matrix rheology and fat content

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Davy Verheyen, Ozan Altin, Dagbjørn Skipnes, Ferruh Erdogdu, Torstein Skåra, Jan F. Van Impe

      • Bacterial pathogens
      • Listeria monocytogenes

  7. Inactivation of Salmonella and Quality Changes in Wheat Flour after Pulsed Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Treatments

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Samir Subedi, Lihui Du, Amritha Prasad, Barun Yadav, M.S. Roopesh

      • Salmonella
      • Bacterial pathogens

  8. Experimental, heat transfer and microbial inactivation modeling of microwave pasteurization of carrot slices as an efficient and clean process

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Reza Roohi, Seyed Mohammad Bagher Hashemi

      • Bacillus cereus
      • Shigella
      • Staphylococcus aureus
      • Bacterial pathogens

  9. FOULING MITIGATION IN FOOD PROCESSES BY MODIFICATION OF HEAT TRANSFER SURFACES: A REVIEW

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Lukas Schnöing, Wolfgang Augustin, Stephan Scholl

  10. Virginiamycin Thermal Degradation Kinetics in a Model Matrix Simulating Distillation Conditions within a Commercial Fuel Ethanol Production Facility

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Audrey L. Walter, Yiwei Ma, Chi Chen, Fernando Sampedro, Dennis Bayrock, Pedro E. Urriola, Gerald C. Shurson

  11. Microwave fluidised bed drying of red LENTIL seeds: drying kinetics and reduction of Botrytis grey mold pathogen

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Saeedeh Taheri, Graham Brodie, Dorin Gupta

  12. FUZZY BASED RISK ASSESSMENT OF ABATTOIR OPERATIONS AND TREATMENT FACILITIES: A CASE STUDY OF ONITSHA NORTH/SOUTH LGA OF ANAMBRA STATE OF NIGERIA

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): E.C. Chukwuma, Abdul Rashid, G. Okafor, A.O. Nwoke

  13. Preparation and characterization of pectin fraction from pineapple peel as a natural plasticizer and material for biopolymer film

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Pattrathip Rodsamran, Rungsinee Sothornvit

  14. CFD simulation for designing a chlorine gaseous sanitizer treatment system

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Sang-Hyun Park, Won Choi, Sang-Soon Kim, Dong-Hyun Kang

  15. Combined effects of citric acid and pulsed light treatments to degrade B-aflatoxins in peanut

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Manal O. Abuagela, Basheer M. Iqdiam, Hussein Mostafa, Sara M. Marshall, Yavuz Yagiz, Maurice R. Marshall, Liwei Gu, Paul Sarnoski

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins

  16. Comparative analyses on a batch-type heat pump dryer using low GWP refrigerants

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Akhilesh Singh, Jahar Sarkar, Rashmi Rekha Sahoo

  17. Prior physicochemical stress exposures and subsequent UV-C resistance of E. coli O157:H7 in coconut liquid endosperm

    • Food and Bioproducts Processing

    • Author(s): Alonzo A. Gabriel, Angelica C. Musni

      • Bacterial pathogens