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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. Porous poly(bismaleimide‐co‐divinylbenzene) microspheres as dispersive solid‐phase extraction adsorbent coupled to high‐performance liquid chromatography for the determination of triazine herbicide residues in vegetable samples

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • In this work, monodisperse and nano‐porous poly(bismaleimide‐co‐divinylbenzene) microspheres with large specific surface area (427.6 m2/g) and rich pore structure were prepared by one‐pot self‐stable precipitation polymerization of 2,2′‐bis[4‐(4‐maleimidophenoxy) phenyl] propane and divinylbenzene. The prepared poly(bismaleimide‐co‐divinylbenzene) microspheres were employed as dispersive solid‐phase extraction (DSPE) adsorbent for the extraction of triazine herbicides.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  2. Deep eutectic solvent–based pressurized liquid extraction combined with dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction of organophosphorus pesticide residues in egg powder prior to high‐performance liquid chromatography analysis

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Herein, a deep eutectic solvent (DES)‐based miniaturized pressurized liquid extraction in combination with DES‐based dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (DLLME) was developed for the extraction of organophosphorus pesticides (parathion–methyl, triazophos, parathion, diazinon, and phoxim) from egg powder samples prior to their analysis by a high‐performance liquid chromatography‐diode array detector.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  3. Comparison of filter membranes in the analysis of 183 veterinary and other drugs by liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Although filtration is one of the most common steps in sample preparation for chemical analysis, filter membrane materials can leach contaminants and/or retain some analytes in the filtered solutions. In multiclass, multiresidue analysis of veterinary drugs, it is challenging to find one type of filter membrane that does not retain at least some of the analytes before injection in ultrahigh‐performance liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC‐MS/MS).

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
  4. Evaluation of supercritical fluid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of pesticide residues in grain

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • A supercritical fluid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry (SFC‐MS/MS) technique was developed for the rapid and simultaneous detection of nine pesticides (carbendazim, isoprocarb, paclobutrazol, isoprothiolane, flusilazole, quinalphos, piperonylbutoxide, propargite, and bioresmethrin) in rice, wheat, and maize. The cereal samples were extracted with a solution of 0.5% acetic acid in acetonitrile and purified using quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe method.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  5. Development and validation of a sensitive ultra‐high‐performance liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry method for quantitative analysis of bambermycin in livestock and aquatic products: Implications for food safety control and regulatory enforcem

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • A sensitive and accurate analytical method was developed and validated to detect bambermycin, a commonly used antibiotic in animal feed and livestock. The presence of bambermycin residues in food products can pose health risks to consumers, emphasizing the need for a sensitive and accurate analytical method.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
  6. Microwave‐assisted extraction in closed vessel in food analysis

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Microwave‐assisted extraction (MAE) is an important technique in analytical chemistry. It offers several advantages over traditional extraction methods, such as improved extraction efficiency, shorter extraction times, reduced solvent consumption, and enhanced analyte recovery.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Antibiotic residues
      • Pesticide residues
  7. Rapid identification of chemical constituents in Hugan tablets by ultra‐performance liquid chromatography‐quadrupole‐exactive orbitrap mass spectrometry

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Hugan tablet is a Chinese medicine preparation. It is composed of Bupleuri Radix, Artemisiae Scopariae Herba, Isatidis Radix, Schisandrae Chinensis Fructus, Suis Fellis Pulvis, and Vigna radiata L. It has the effects of dispersing stagnated liver qi, strengthening the spleen and eliminating food to be used for the treatment of chronic hepatitis and early cirrhosis.

      • Viruses
      • Hepatitis
  8. Recent advances in application and progress of advanced materials as adsorbents in sample preparation for plant growth regulators

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Plant growth regulators are a class of physiologically active substances that could modify or regulate basic physiological processes in the plant and defense against abiotic and biotic stresses, including natural plant growth regulators and synthetic ones.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  9. Development of deep eutectic solvent–based microwave‐assisted extraction combined with temperature controlled ionic liquid–based liquid phase microextraction for extraction of aflatoxins from cheese samples

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, EarlyView. In this study, for the first time, a deep eutectic solvent-based microwave-assisted extraction was combined with ionic liquid–based temperature controlled liquid phase microextraction for the extraction of several aflatoxins from cheese samples.

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
  10. 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
  11. Application of a Cholesterol‐Based Stationary Phase for the Analysis of Brevetoxins

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. A high-performance liquid chromatography protocol for the analysis of brevetoxins has been developed using a silica hydride-based cholesterol column. Brevetoxins are neurotoxins produced by harmful algae that have additional potential as drugs for a number of illnesses/diseases. To develop the optimum conditions, a number of different experimental approaches were tested.

      • Natural toxins
      • Shellfish toxins
  12. The presence and transfer characteristics of aflatoxins in medicinal herbs: From raw materials to edible dispensing granules

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. In this study, a sensitive and accurate immunoaffinity columns coupled with high performance liquid chromatography method was established to monitor the presence of aflatoxins—aflatoxin B1, aflatoxin B2, aflatoxin G1, and aflatoxin G2—in different medicinal herbs. The proposed method was found to be suitable for the detection of aflatoxins in eight kinds of herbs and their corresponding granules.

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
  13. Evaluation of green silicone surfactant‐based vortex assisted dispersive liquid‐liquid microextraction for sample preparation of organophosphorus pesticide residues in honey and fruit sample

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. A vortex assisted surfactant enhanced emulsification liquid-liquid microextraction based on non-ionic silicone surfactant was successfully developed for the determination of organophosphorus pesticides in food samples coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  14. Multi‐residue analysis of 206 pesticides in grass forage by the one‐step quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe method combined with ultrahigh‐performance liquid chromatography quadrupole orbitrap mass spectrometry

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. A novel method for detecting pesticide multi-residue in grass forage (alfalfa and oat) was established based on the one-step automatic extraction and purification technology of quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe combined with ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole Orbitrap high-resolution mass spectrometry.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  15. Ethanol‐ammonium sulfate system based modified quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe method for the determination of four neonicotinoid pesticide and metabolite residues in two canned fruits

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. As the pesticide and its metabolite residues in processed fruits could become a significant route of human exposure. The work presented herein focuses on developing a feasible quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe method with improved extraction and cleanup system for the determination of imidacloprid, acetamiprid, thiamethoxam and clothianidin (metabolite of thiamethoxam) in canned fruits.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  16. Application of calcium oxide as an efficient phase separation agent in temperature–induced counter current homogenous liquid–liquid extraction of aflatoxins from dried fruit chips followed by HPLC–MS/MS determination

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. A temperature–induced counter current homogenous liquid–liquid extraction procedure performed in a burette has been proposed for the isolation of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, and G2 from various fruit chip samples. In this method, a homogenous solution of deionized water and cyclohexyl amine is added onto the solid sample and the resulted mixture is vortexed.

      • Natural toxins
      • Aflatoxins
      • Mycotoxins
  17. Biomass‐derived porous material synthesized by one‐step calcination method for the magnetic solid phase extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls in water

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. Recent findings unfold that biomass materials with the micro/mesoporous structure were often treated as adsorbents for organic substances. In this work, one-step calcination method was adopted in the preparation of magnetic porous green bean biomass material. It has the properties of magnetism and porosity after the addition of Co(NO3)2 and high temperature calcination.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Dioxins
  18. Multi‐residue screening of pesticides in Panax Ginseng C. A. Meyer by ultra‐high‐performance liquid chromatography with quadrupole time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. In this study, an efficient screening method based on a modified quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe extraction method combined with ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry was established for the determination of 90 pesticides residues in Panax Ginseng.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  19. Zeolitic imidazolate framework‐8 as a dispersive solid phase extraction sorbent for simultaneous determination of 145 pesticide residues in polyphenol‐rich plants

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article. Many plants showed higher polyphenol content, which caused the matrix effect and made the analysis of trace pesticide residues highly challenging. A common approach to improving matrix effects is to purify pesticides through the use of sorbents, but this requires a combination of multiple sorbents and extensive use.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  20. Selective magnetic solid‐phase extraction of amide herbicides from fish samples coupled with ultra‐high‐performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, EarlyView.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  21. Phenylboronic acid‐functionalized cross‐linked chitosan magnetic adsorbents for the magnetic solid‐phase extraction of benzoylurea pesticides

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, EarlyView.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  22. Recent advances in the extraction of triazine herbicides from water samples

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 113-133, January 2022.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  23. The pesticide residue analysis in commodities with high content of chlorophyll based on the quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe method: A review

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 149-165, January 2022.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  24. Capillary electrophoresis applied for the determination of acidity constants and limiting electrophoretic mobilities of ionizable herbicides including glyphosate and its metabolites and for their simultaneous separation

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, Accepted Article.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues
  25. Development of a green miniaturized quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe approach in tandem with temperature‐assisted solidification of floating menthol droplet for analysis of multiclass pesticide residues in milk

    • Journal of Separation Science
    • Journal of Separation Science, EarlyView.

      • Chemical contaminants
      • Pesticide residues