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... Swine are often asymptomatic carriers of Salmonella spp., a leading cause of human bacterial foodborne disease. Vaccination against Salmonella is effective for protecting animal health and enhancing food safety. However, with >2500 Salmonella serovars, current vaccines for swine offer limited cross-protection against heterologous serovars. Also, existing vaccines can interfere with surveillance pr ...
Tolerable Upper Intake Level; World Health Organization; adults; bioavailability; body weight; children; diet; food safety; lactation; nutrient requirements; phytic acid; pregnancy; zinc
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... Large discrepancies exist among the dietary zinc recommendations set by expert groups. To describe the basis for the differences in the dietary zinc recommendations set by the World Health Organization, the US Institute of Medicine, the International Zinc Nutrition Consultative Group, and the European Food Safety Agency. We compared the sources of the data, the concepts, and methods used by the 4 ...
... Based on the conclusions of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the four polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH4) chrysene (Chr), benzo(a)anthracene (BaA), benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), and benzo(b)fluoranthene (BbF) are new markers for the occurrence of PAHs in food. Vegetable oils are extremely easily contaminated by PAHs, due to the raw material pollution and the imperfections of processing techn ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Food and Agriculture Organization; Listeria; Protozoa; Salmonella; Toxoplasma gondii; World Health Organization; chickens; databases; food animals; food safety; foodborne illness; goats; humans; lambs; markets; meta-analysis; microbiological risk assessment; models; parasites; pathogens; public health; sows; United States
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... Toxoplasma gondii is a widely distributed protozoan parasite. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that T. gondii is one of three pathogens (along with Salmonella and Listeria), that together account for >70% of all deaths due to foodborne illness in the United States. Food animals are reservoirs for T. gondii and act as one of the sources for parasite transmission to humans. Ba ...
... In this study, a bibliometric analysis was performed to evaluate the global scientific production on oyster research from the period of 1991 to 2014. This analysis was based on the Science Citation Index Expanded database. A total of 11,493 publications were identified, and two main aspects were analysed: (1) publication performance and (2) research emphases and trends. The result indicated the an ...
... Food safety problems caused by tetracycline antibiotics residues are a significant concern due to their great risk to human health even at trace levels. In the current work, a highly sensitive and selective determination of similar chemical composition tetracycline (TC) and doxycycline (DC) antibiotics in milk samples was developed by offline solid phase extraction using β-cyclodextrin functionali ...
... A fast and facile method for the fabrication of magnetic molecularly imprinted stir-bars (MMIP-SB) has been developed, using a combination of imprinting technology and magnetite. Magnetite was prepared in the laboratory from the raw and embedded into molecularly imprinted polymers through a process of bulk polymerization. This novel design was applied to the analysis of aflatoxins, one of the most ...
... β-agonists are phenylethanolamines with different substituent groups on the aromatic ring and the terminal amino group which have the effect of nutrition redistribution and can accumulate in body tissues causing acute or chronic poisoning when consumed. Therefore, it is very important to establish a fast screening method for the detection of several kinds of β-agonists in food safety control. In t ...
European Union; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Fusarium verticillioides; absorption; aflatoxin B1; chemometrics; corn; data collection; decision support systems; deoxynivalenol; food safety; fungal diseases of plants; models; peanuts; plant pathogenic fungi; principal component analysis; rapid methods; spectral analysis
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... The rapid identification of mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol and aflatoxin B ₁ in agricultural commodities is an ongoing concern for food importers and processors. While sophisticated chromatography-based methods are well established for regulatory testing by food safety authorities, few techniques exist to provide a rapid assessment for traders. This study advances the development of a mid-infra ...
alpha-chlorohydrin; control methods; cooking fats and oils; esters; food safety; lipids; methodology; quality control; technicians; transesterification; variance
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... Currently, there are three official AOCS indirect methods for the detection and quantification of 2‐ and 3‐chloropropane‐1,2‐diol‐(2‐MCPDe/3‐MCPDe) and glycidyl esters (GE). The complete analysis for methods which allow separate detection and quantification of these three analytes is time consuming (>16 h) and because of extensive manual sample preparation, the chances for error are significant an ...
... Developing rapid and sensitive methods for the detection of pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 remains a major challenge in food safety. The present study attempts to develop an immunofluorescence technique that uses Protein-A-coated, magnetic beads as the platform. The immunofluorescence technique described here is a direct detection method in which E. coli O157:H7 cells are labeled with tetrame ...
Nematoda; ambient temperature; animal and human health; fish; food safety; frozen fish; hosts; hydrochloric acid; nematode larvae; odors; parasites; sequence analysis; New South Wales
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... The infection of fish with zoonotic nematodes, particularly anisakid nematodes is of great interest to many researchers who study food safety, human or animal health or who use them as biological tags for stock assessment studies. Accurate examination of fish for infection with anisakid larvae is crucial in making accurate estimates of their occurrence, abundance and prevalence in their fish hosts ...
... Palytoxin (PLTX) and its analogues have been detected as seafood contaminants associated with a series of human foodborne poisonings. Due to a number of fatalities ascribed to the ingestion of PLTX-contaminated marine organisms, the development of methods for its detection in seafood has been recommended by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Due to its feasibility, the spectrophotometric h ...
Food and Drug Administration; analytical methods; carbon; cost effectiveness; dried milk; fluorescence; fluorescent dyes; food safety; melamine; mercury; nanotechnology; raw milk
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... We have proposed here a facile, simple, and cost-effective turn-on assay for melamine with carbon nanodots (C-dots) as a fluorescence reader. Melamine is prone to coordinate with Hg²⁺ due to the presence of a multi-nitrogen heterocyclic ring. This property is the cause for the anti-quenching ability of Hg²⁺ to C-dots through decreasing the interaction between Hg²⁺ and C-dots. By this method, a det ...
... Multi-analyte immunoassays have attracted increasing attention due to their short assay times, low sample consumption, and reduced detection costs per assay. In this work, we describe a homologous and high-throughput multi-wavelength fluorescence polarization immunoassay (MWFPIA) for the multiplexed detection of mycotoxins. Three typical Fusarium mycotoxins, deoxynivalenol (DON), T-2 toxin and fum ...
... Indospicine (l-2-amino-6-amidinohexanoic acid) is a natural hepatotoxin found in all parts of some Indigofera plants such as Indigofera linnaei and Indigofera spicata. Several studies have documented a susceptibility to this hepatotoxin in different species of animals, including cattle, sheep, dogs, and rats, which are associated with mild to severe liver disease after prolonged ingestion. However ...
... To determine the reliability of food safety studies carried out in rodents with genetically modified (GM) crops, a Food Safety Study Reliability Tool (FSSRTool) was adapted from the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods’ (ECVAM) ToxRTool. Reliability was defined as the inherent quality of the study with regard to use of standardized testing methodology, full documentation of ex ...
Luca Fasolato; Lisa Carraro; Pierantonio Facco; Barbara Cardazzo; Stefania Balzan; Agnese Taticchi; Nadia Andrea Andreani; Filomena Montemurro; Maria Elena Martino; Giuseppe Di Lecce; Tullia Gallina Toschi; Enrico Novelli
... The use of phenolic compounds derived from agricultural by-products could be considered as an eco-friendly strategy for food preservation. In this study a purified phenol extract from olive vegetation water (PEOVW) was explored as a potential bioactive ingredient for meat products using Italian fresh sausage as food model. The research was developed in two steps: first, an in vitro delineation of ...
... Differently to amino acid degradations produced by carbohydrate-derived reactive carbonyls, amino acid degradations produced by lipid oxidation products are lesser known in spite of being lipid oxidation a major source of reactive carbonyls in food. This article analyzes the conversion of amino acids into Strecker aldehydes, α-keto acids, and amines produced by lipid-derived free radicals and carb ...
... Growing concerns about food safety and environmental protection enhanced the need for new and safe plant disease control strategies. The chemical composition of the three essential oils (EOs) extracted from leaves and fruits of Schinus terebinthifolius and leaves of Schinus molle, growing in Tunisia, was studied by GC and GC-MS. In all, 12 compounds were identified. The oils were mainly composed o ...