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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. Individual and combined impact of microplastics and lead acetate on the freshwater shrimp (Caridina fossarum): Biochemical effects and physiological responses

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Microplastics and heavy metals pollution is recognised as a major problem affecting aquatic ecosystems.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  2. Mass fluxes of dissolved arsenic discharging to the Meghna River are sufficient to account for the mass of arsenic in riverbank sediments

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Shallow (<30 m) reducing groundwater commonly contains abundant dissolved arsenic (As) in Bangladesh. We hypothesize that dissolved As in iron (Fe)-rich groundwater discharging to rivers is trapped onto Fe(III)-oxyhydroxides which precipitate in shallow riverbank sediments under the influence of tidal fluctuations.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  3. Environmental tracers and groundwater residence time indicators reveal controls of arsenic accumulation rates beneath a rapidly developing urban area in Patna, India

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  4. A novel co-processed olive tree leaves biomass for lead adsorption from contaminated water

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Olive farming is one of the key agricultural activities in Jordan, where nearly 70% of the cultivated land in Jordan is covered with olive trees. Olive harvesting generates massive quantities of agricultural waste which will be an environmental burden if not managed properly. The present study introduces the use of novel co-processed biomass extracted from the olive tree leaves for the adsorption of lead from contaminated water.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  5. The efficient removal of bisphenol A from aqueous solution using an assembled nanocomposite of zero-valent iron nanoparticles/graphene oxide/copper: Adsorption isotherms, kinetic, and thermodynamic studies

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Shokoufeh Yousefinia, Mahmoud Reza Sohrabi, Fereshteh Motiee, Mehran Davallo

      • Chemical contaminants

  6. Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in conventional drinking water treatment processes

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Isabel Gutierrez-Urbano, Maria Villen-Guzman, Rocio Perez Recuerda, Jose M. Rodriguez-Maroto

      • Chemical contaminants

  7. Mesoporous activated carbon as a green adsorbent for the removal of heavy metals and Congo red: Characterization, adsorption kinetics, and isotherm studies

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Sujata Mandal, Jose Calderon, Sreekar B. Marpu, Mohammad A. Omary, Sheldon Q. Shi

  8. Effectiveness of two lightweight aggregates for the removal of heavy metals from contaminated urban stormwater

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Concepcion Pla, David Benavente, Javier Valdes-Abellan, Zdenka Kovacova

  9. Field-scale demonstration of in situ immobilization of heavy metals by injecting iron oxide nanoparticle adsorption barriers in groundwater

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Sadjad Mohammadian, Beate Krok, Andreas Fritzsche, Carlo Bianco, Tiziana Tosco, Ekain Cagigal, Bruno Mata, Veronica Gonzalez, Maria Diez-Ortiz, Vanesa Ramos, Daniela Montalvo, Erik Smolders, Rajandrea Sethi, Rainer U. Meckenstock

  10. Review on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) migration from wastewater

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Gajendra Kumar Gaurav, Tariq Mehmood, Manoj Kumar, Liu Cheng, Kuppusamy Sathishkumar, Amit Kumar, Deepak Yadav

      • Chemical contaminants

  11. Reactive transport modeling of pollutants in heterogeneous layered paddy soils: a) Cadmium migration and vertical distributions

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Han Zhang, Shujia Ke, Shihong Zhang, Jingai Shao, Hanping Chen

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  12. Effectiveness of groundwater heavy metal pollution indices studies by deep-learning

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Sudhakar Singha, Srinivas Pasupuleti, Soumya S. Singha, Suresh Kumar

  13. Reactive particle-tracking solutions to a benchmark problem on heavy metal cycling in lake sediments

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Michael J. Schmidt, Stephen D. Pankavich, Alexis Navarre-Sitchler, Nicholas B. Engdahl, Diogo Bolster, David A. Benson

  14. Long-term geophysical monitoring of an abandoned dumpsite area in a Guarani Aquifer recharge zone

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Alice Kimie Martins Morita, Natalia de Souza Pelinson, Vagner Roberto Elis, Edson Wendland

  15. The application of surfactant colloidal gas aphrons to remediate contaminated soil: A review

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Wei Tao, Changgen Mei, Nurhidayah Hamzah

  16. Remediation of BTEX plume in a continuous flow model using zeolite-PRB

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Abdorreza Vaezihir, Mohammad Bagher Bayanlou, Zeinab Ahmadnezhad, Ghodrat Barzegari

  17. Reactive transport modeling of produced water disposal into dolomite saline aquifers: Controls of barium transport

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Javier Vilcáez

  18. Assessment of zeolite and compost-zeolite mixture as permeable reactive materials for the removal of lead from a model acidic groundwater

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Obiri-Nyarko Franklin, Kwiatkowska-Malina Jolanta, Malina Grzegorz, Wołowiec Krzysztof

      • Heavy Metals
      • Chemical contaminants

  19. Nano-TiO2 enhances the adsorption of Cd(II) on biological soil crusts under mildly acidic conditions

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Xiaolin Kuang, Jihai Shao, Liang Peng, Huijuan Song, Xiangdong Wei, Si Luo, Ji-dong Gu

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Heavy Metals

  20. New insights from modelling and estimation of mass transfer parameters in fixed-bed adsorption of Bisphenol A onto carbon materials

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): A.B. Hernández-Abreu, S. Álvarez-Torrellas, V.I. Águeda, M. Larriba, J.A. Delgado, P.A. Calvo, J. García

      • Chemical contaminants

  21. Immobilization of Pb, Cu and Zn in contaminated soil using ball milling technique

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Wen-yi Yuan, Wei-tong Xu, Jiong-li Zheng, Xiao-yan Wang, Qi-wu Zhang

  22. Performance of polymer-enhanced KMnO4 delivery for remediation of TCE contaminated heterogeneous aquifer: A bench-scale visualization

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Jingru Lian, Yufeng Fu, Chao Guo, Yu He, Chuanyu Qin

  23. Preparation of hydroxyapatite nanostructures with different morphologies and adsorption behavior on seven heavy metals ions

    • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

    • Author(s): Xueyan Zou, Yanbao Zhao, Zhijun Zhang