Research Publications (Food Safety)

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Fungi are significant contaminants and destroyers of spices. This study aimed at determining the mycoflora, mycotoxins, contaminants, and antimicrobial properties of some local spices; dawadawa (Parkia biglobosa), nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), turmeric (Curcuma longa), aniseed (Pimpinella anisum), ocimum (Ocimum basilicum), and clove (Syzygium aromaticum).

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. This study aimed to investigate the effect of soaking lettuce seeds in a lime oil emulsion at 0 (control), 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 μl/ml before growing them in a hydroponic plantation. After harvesting baby lettuce at Day 21, all lettuce was kept inside the refrigerator (4 ± 2°C) for the next 7 days. The microbiological quality and the antioxidant properties of lettuce were also investigated.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Non-typhoidal Salmonella serotypes continue to be major food safety and public health threats worldwide. In the era of emerging antimicrobial resistance, it is imperative to search for alternative strategies of infection control. Present study deals with passive protection of young chicks using polyclonal egg yolk antibodies (IgY).

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. ComBase is a widely used microbial modeling database. ComBase data can be used to develop and validate models and to test novel modeling methods like artificial neural networks (ANN) and acceptable prediction zones (APZ), which have been shown to outperform traditional methods.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Zearalenone (ZEN) is one of the most common mycotoxin contaminants worldwide. In this study, a phage-based direct competitive fluorescence immunosorbent assay (P-dcFLISA) was developed for the detection of ZEN. In this P-dcFLISA, phage mimotope was used to replace chemically synthesized antigens to improve the safety of experiments.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Although the intestinal lumen is a significant way to enter pathogens such as Salmonella, they face a dense microbiota in the gut lumen. This community confers health benefits. Probiotics enhance the colonization resistance and direct inhibition of pathogens, which are essential in reducing the incidence and duration of gastroenteritis and histopathological complications of enteric pathogens.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Engineered nanoparticles have been explored for their potential to serve as additives to foods, their packages, and contact surfaces because they are stable in a wide range of harsh environments and display inherent antimicrobial properties.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Foodborne illness outbreaks caused by consuming cantaloupe melon contaminated with Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli O157:H7 are recurrent. The objective of this work was to investigate the antimicrobial effect of the combination of chitosan (Q) and extracellular metabolites of Pediococcus pentosaceus CM175 (EmPp) on the surface of cantaloupe against E.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. In this study, the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method was applied to determine florfenicol residues (FF) in chicken meat. Gold nanoparticles were stabilized on the glass slides cost-effectively by “1-dodecanethiol.” Three factors, including “solvent types,” “spectroscopy times,” and “ ratio of gold nanoparticles and samples” were examined to optimize the spectrum acquisition.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. The washing step is necessary to remove biological and physical hazards from minimally processed vegetables. Nevertheless, the risk of foodborne diseases could persist even after washing due to postsanitizing contamination, and little is known about the antimicrobial effect of residual sanitizers.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. The effects of different antimicrobial applications against Salmonella enterica subs. enterica DSM 18522 strain in turkey breast slices kept under either aerobic or anaerobic-vacuum conditions for different keeping times of 30 min and 6 hr at 4°C were evaluated.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Electron beam technology may be integrated into the fresh produce wash water line, as an advanced oxidation process (AOP). However, prior to implementation, effectiveness of the technology must be assessed. Hydroxyl radical scavengers were used to quantify the role of yield of hydroxyl radicals in inactivation of the selected pathogen in aqueous solution.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView. Occurrences and contamination of Salmonella enterica on produce are a significant food safety issue. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of low-dose gamma radiation on survival and reductions of S. enterica on postharvest carrot and tomato. Irradiation treatments of 0–1 kGy were applied on produce, following pathogen inoculations in replicated experiments.

Journal of Food Safety, EarlyView.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021. Salmonella detection and isolation rely on different selective enrichment media, which can influence which serovars are detected. The objective of this study was to compare Salmonella recovery from broiler carcass rinses using three different selective enrichment protocols and three differential plating agars. Eight prechill broiler carcasses were collected at a commercial slaughter facility.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021. Culture-based Salmonella isolation consists of nonselective pre-enrichment, followed by selective enrichment in Rappaport–Vassiliadis (RV) or tetrathionate (TT) broths, and subsequent plating on selective indicator agar. This study aimed to assess the recovery of two strains belonging to serovars Montevideo (strain ATCC-8387) and Typhimurium (strain ATCC-14028) when grown together in different media.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021.

Journal of Food Safety, Volume 41, Issue 6, December 2021.