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foodcontamination, etc ; mycotoxins; oligonucleotides; public health; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Mycotoxin prevalence in food is a global public health issue, that could impose severe economic burdens. To prevent risk of exposure to mycotoxins, it is of great importance to develop selective, sensitive, and reliable methods to monitor mycotoxin levels in food samples. Recent advances in nanotechnology have produced many nanomaterials with unique physical features and extensive effort has been ...
foodcontamination, etc ; cooperative research; food research; mycotoxins; risk; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Mycotoxin food contamination data is scattered, isolated, and poorly described. Reporting mycotoxin contamination data in a standardized manner is essential for collaborative research and integrated large-scale data analysis. The present study aimed to complement the existing European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) mycotoxin contamination data descript ...
foodcontamination, etc ; biosensors; enzyme inhibition; human health; vegetables; Show all 5 Subjects
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... One serious environmental problem in the world is food contamination. Many of the environmental pollutants result from agricultural activities. Particularly pesticides, which are commonly used to protect seeds and crops, have serious negative implications for human health. Therefore, biosensors were developed and used to detect pesticides in food and environmental samples in the last few decades. ...
foodcontamination, etc ; food preservation; mycotoxins; shelf life; sustainable agriculture; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Mycotoxin‐producing fungi are a significant source of crop and food contamination, posing a significant threat to global food safety and security. Essential oils, plant extracts and phytochemicals have emerged as green preservatives to extend the shelf‐life of foods due to their unique antimicrobial properties. Unlike conventional synthetic preservatives, they are a sustainable and safe way to pre ...
Yessica Enciso-Martínez; Gustavo A. González-Aguilar; Miguel A. Martínez-Téllez; Cristóbal J. González-Pérez; Dora E. Valencia-Rivera; Edwin Barrios-Villa; Jesús Fernando Ayala-Zavala
foodcontamination, etc ; Escherichia coli; enteropathogens; food microbiology; intestines; pathotypes; toxins; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Escherichia coli is among the most prevalent food contaminant microorganisms that have evolved, generating variants based on their effects on the host; these include commensals or pathobiont strains. The last classifications of E. coli intestinal pathobionts found in this review are enteroinvasive, enterohemorrhagic, enteropathogenic, enterotoxigenic, diffusely adherent, and enteroaggregative stra ...
foodcontamination, etc ; bakers yeast; celiac disease; enzymes; gluten; oats; pasta; Morocco; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Patients with celiac disease have to rely on the safety of gluten-free foods (GFF), which are frequently contaminated by gluten. Hence, the evaluation of the gluten level in these foods is important. The aim of this study was to assess the gluten content in GFF available in Morocco. It was carried out on 84 food samples including 52 labelled gluten-free foods (L-GFF) and 32 naturally gluten-free f ...
foodcontamination, etc ; Alternaria; Helianthus annuus; altenuene; food groups; tenuazonic acid; tomatoes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The collection of occurrence data on Alternaria toxins in food and feed across the European countries is required since 2012 by the European Commission, endorsing the relevant scientific opinion by the EFSA CONTAM Panel. Within this framework, occurrence data for Alternaria toxins (Alternariol, Alternariol monomethyl ether, Tenuazonic acid, Tentoxin, and Altenuene) in 97 samples of cereal foods, t ...
foodcontamination, etc ; chickens; chloramphenicol; detection limit; fluorescence; gold; immunoaffinity chromatography; nanogold; photoluminescence; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Herein, a novel fluorescence quenching immunochromatographic test strip (FQICTS) for simultaneous detection of chloramphenicol (CAP) and amantadine (AMD) was developed on the basis of inner filter effect (IFE), with the combination of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and highly luminescent green-emitting gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) as the IFE quencher/donor pair. The AuNPs could quench the excitation ligh ...
foodcontamination, etc ; childhood; diet; epigenetics; glycation; heat treatment; longevity; oral exposure; risk; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The development of an individual during fetal life and childhood is characterized by rapid growth as well as gradual maturation of organs and systems. Beyond the nutritional intake in essential nutrients, food contaminants can permanently influence the way organs mature and function. These processes are called “programming” and play an essential role in the occurrence of non-communicable chronic d ...
foodcontamination, etc ; atomic force microscopy; electrochemistry; food chemistry; food matrix; nanopores; toxins; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Rapid and sensitive detection technologies for food contaminants play vital roles in food safety. Due to the complexity of the food matrix and the trace amount distribution, traditional methods often suffer from unsatisfying accuracy, sensitivity, or specificity. In past decades, single-molecule detection (SMD) has emerged as a way to realize the rapid and ultrasensitive measurement with low sampl ...
foodcontamination, etc ; aptasensors; human health; oligonucleotides; rapid methods; single-stranded DNA; society; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Food safety issues are a worldwide concern. Pathogens, toxins, pesticides, veterinary drugs, heavy metals, and illegal additives are frequently reported to contaminate food and pose a serious threat to human health. Conventional detection methods have difficulties fulfilling the requirements for food development in a modern society. Therefore, novel rapid detection methods are urgently needed for ...
foodcontamination, etc ; Maillard reaction; acrylamides; carbohydrates; derivatization; lactic acid; raw foods; temperature; toxicity; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Acrylamide is classified as a toxic food contaminant, and it is formed in carbohydrate rich food when heated > 120 °C through the Maillard reaction. The main parameters that affect acrylamide formation in foods are the composition of the raw food, and time–temperature of food processing. International organizations have warned against the existence of acrylamide in foods and mandated to limit its ...
foodcontamination, etc ; Annona muricata; colorimetry; cost effectiveness; environmental science; fruit pulp; mandarins; nanogold; spectroscopy; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Contamination of food and water by heavy metals, especially cadmium (Cd), poses a significant threat to humans and ecological systems. Here, we focus on the development of a simple, cost-effective, and selective colorimetric sensing system for Cd²⁺ ions using green-synthesized gold nanoparticles (GNPs). We used Annona muricata fruit pulp extract (AMPuE) to prepare highly stable GNPs (AMPuE-GNPs). ...
foodcontamination, etc ; chemical species; detection limit; food chemistry; food security; nanogold; pesticides; polydimethylsiloxane; spectrometers; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Pesticide residues will be a huge threat to food security and ecological environment; therefore, there is an urgent need to achieve rapid and on-site detection of pesticide residues. Herein, a plasmonic substrate with multiple “hot spots” was fabricated by transferring three-dimensional (3D) Au nanoparticles (NPs) onto the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane for highly sensitive surface-enhanced ...
foodcontamination, etc ; celiac disease; computer software; gluten; gluten-free diet; income; meta-analysis; systematic review; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The gluten-free diet is based on the consumption of foods without gluten, which aims to manage celiac disease. The concern of celiac patients is that these foods should be safe. However, gluten contamination can affect these foods. The objectives of this review and meta-analysis were first, to identify articles that detected gluten contamination in gluten-free foods using validated methods. Second ...
foodcontamination, etc ; colorimetry; fluorescence; immunoaffinity chromatography; instrumentation; mobile telephones; organ-on-a-chip; safety assessment; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Food safety analysis plays a significant role in controlling food contamination and supervision. In recent years, multiplex optical bioassays (MOBAs) have been widely applied to analyze multiple hazards due to their efficiency and low cost. However, due to the challenges such as multiplexing capacity, poor sensitivity, and bulky instrumentation, the further application of traditional MOBAs in food ...
foodcontamination, etc ; acrylamides; biosensors; colorimetry; electronic nose; fluorescence; food research; mycotoxins; public health; technology; toxicity; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Food safety being a vast global public health threat has attracted growing concern. Efficient detection techniques for food hazards are essential to ensure food safety. Various methods have been established to sense food hazards for solving food safety-related problems. However, due to trace levels of food contaminants, pathogens, and toxins, the development of efficient and reliable detection tec ...
foodcontamination, etc ; chlorinated hydrocarbons; dieldrin; maximum residue limits; pollution; sand; topsoil; urban agriculture; vegetables; France; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Since the fifties, organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) had been used in agriculture to protect vegetables. Two decades after their ban by the Stockholm convention in 2001, OCPs are still present in agricultural soils inducing vegetable contamination with concentrations above Maximum Residue Level (MRL). This is a major concern for a 5 km² peri-urban vegetable growing valley located in the south west ...
... Chicken breast is prone to Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., and E. coli O157:H7 contaminations. Therefore, a quantitative method for the rapid detection of these pathogens simultaneously in chicken breast is highly desirable for food safety control. This study reports a flow cytometry (FCM)-based method for rapid and multiplexed quantification of the above-stated three pathogens without en ...
foodcontamination, etc ; aminoacyl tRNA ligases; biotin; chemical bonding; detection limit; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; ochratoxin A; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a common food contaminant that seriously threatens the safety and health of consumers. Here, an indirect competitive biotin-streptavidin-amplified enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icBA-ELISA) was developed for the sensitive detection of OTA by employing Fc-specific multi-biotinylated antibodies. An Fc-binding protein (Z-domain) carrying a photo-cross-linker (p-benzoylphenyl ...