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1. Fluorescence polarization assays for chemical contaminants in food and environmental analyses

Author:
Zhang, Huiyan; Yang, Shupeng; De Ruyck, Karl; Beloglazova, Natalia V.; Eremin, Sergei A.; De Saeger, Sarah; Zhang, Suxia; Shen, Jianzhong; Wang, Zhanhui
Source:
Trends in analytical chemistry 2019 v.114 pp. 293-313
ISSN:
0165-9936
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; chemical pollutants; fluorescence; fluorescent dyes; labeling techniques;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Fluorescence polarization (FP) assays play an important role in the detection of chemical contaminants in food and environmental due to a number of key advantages since last century. In recent decades, FP assays have achieved great progress thanks to developments in materials science and labelling techniques. This comprehensive review provides the state of art in methods design, recognition elemen ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.trac.2019.03.013

2. Enzyme-free amplified and ultrafast detection of aflatoxin B1 using dual-terminal proximity aptamer probes

Author:
Xia, Xuhan; Wang, Yuxi; Yang, Hao; Dong, Yi; Zhang, Kaixiang; Lu, Yunhao; Deng, Ruijie; He, Qiang
Source:
Food chemistry 2019 v.283 pp. 32-38
ISSN:
0308-8146
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; aflatoxin B1; faba beans; fluorescent dyes; oligonucleotides; peanut oil;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... Aptamer probes provide an opportunity for achieving rapid and on-site detection of food contaminants. Herein, we proposed a general design strategy for aptamer probes enabling enzyme-free amplified, ultrafast and one-test tube homogeneous detection of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). The key feature of the aptamer probe is designed with dual-terminal proximity structures, allowing the binding of one molecule ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.12.117

3. Mercury accumulation from food decreases collembolans' growth

Author:
Cardoso, Diogo N.; Ferreira, Nuno G.C.; Tourinho, Paula S.; Santos, Cátia; Soares, Amadeu M.V.M.; Loureiro, Susana
Source:
The Science of the total environment 2019 v.668 pp. 25-31
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; Folsomia candida; bioaccumulation; ecosystems; energy; food choices; growth curves; invertebrates; mercury; protocols; reproduction; soil;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... In the terrestrial environment, mercury (Hg) contamination can be originated from different inorganic and metal-organic sources, redistributed and transformed in soils. In the present study, the effects of contaminated food with environmentally relevant concentrations of Hg were evaluated in the soil-dwelling invertebrate Folsomia candida. Changes in growth rate and Hg bioaccumulation levels were ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.392

4. Nanoparticle-based sensors for food contaminants

Author:
Li, Yue; Wang, Zhongxing; Sun, Li; Liu, Liqiang; Xu, Chuanlai; Kuang, Hua
Source:
Trends in analytical chemistry 2019 v.113 pp. 74-83
ISSN:
0165-9936
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; antibiotics; gold; human health; magnetism; monitoring; mycotoxins; nanogold; nanoparticles; nanosilver; pathogens; pesticides; silver;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... With the frequent occurrence of food scandals, food safety has become a topical issue throughout society. Various contaminants present in food can cause foodborne illnesses, posing a serious threat to human health, so an efficient and reliable method for the assessment of food is urgently required. Recently, nanoparticle (NP)-based sensors have emerged as a potential alternative or complementary a ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.trac.2019.01.012

5. Human health risk assessment for some toxic metals in widely consumed rice brands (domestic and imported) in Tehran, Iran: Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis

Author:
Sharafi, Kiomars; Nodehi, Ramin Nabizadeh; Yunesian, Masud; Hossein Mahvi, Amir; Pirsaheb, Meghdad; Nazmara, Shahrokh
Source:
Food chemistry 2019 v.277 pp. 145-155
ISSN:
0308-8146
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; arsenic; cadmium; health effects assessments; heavy metals; human health; lead; rice; risk; uncertainty; Iran;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... The aim of this study was to evaluate the contamination of widely consumed rice brands in Tehran, Iran with three heavy metals: arsenic, lead, and cadmium. To this end, 250 rice samples were collected and 90 samples out of them were analyzed using ICP-MS. Finally, human health risk assessment were performed. Our results showed that the average of lead, cadmium, and arsenic concentrations in Indian ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.10.090

6. Untargeted food contaminant detection using UHPLC-HRMS combined with multivariate analysis: Feasibility study on tea

Author:
Delaporte, Grégoire; Cladière, Mathieu; Jouan-Rimbaud Bouveresse, Delphine; Camel, Valérie
Source:
Food chemistry 2019 v.277 pp. 54-62
ISSN:
0308-8146
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; automation; data collection; databases; feasibility studies; filtration; ions; metabolomics; multivariate analysis; physicochemical properties; tea;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... Powerful data pretreatment strategies inspired from the field of metabolomics were adapted to chemical food safety context to enable samples discrimination by multivariate methods based on low abundance ions. A highly automated workflow was produced. The open-source XCMS package was used and efficient data filtration strategies were set up. Data were treated using Independent Components Analysis, ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.10.089

7. Rapid quantification of trace chloramphenicol in honey under ambient conditions using direct analysis via real-time QTRAP mass spectrometry

Author:
Li, Xiu Qin; Li, Hong Mei; Xu, Sen; Gao, Yan; Zhang, Qing He; Zhang, Yan; Feng, Meng Yu
Source:
Food chemistry 2019 v.276 pp. 50-56
ISSN:
0308-8146
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; antibiotic residues; chloramphenicol; honey; tandem mass spectrometry; veterinary drugs;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... In this paper, we employed a direct analysis in real time (DART) ion source coupled to QTRAP mass spectrometry for the analysis of chloramphenicol (CAP) in honey. The accuracy of the DART-MS/MS method for the analysis of CAP in honey was evaluated by comparison with data generated by a validated HPLC-MS/MS method. The sample preparation procedure was optimized to obtain sensitive and accurate dete ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.09.130

8. A micro(nano)plastic boomerang tale: A never ending story?

Author:
Oliveira, M.; Almeida, M.; Miguel, I.
Source:
Trends in analytical chemistry 2019 v.112 pp. 196-200
ISSN:
0165-9936
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; air; beverages; exposure pathways; humans; microplastics; water currents; wind;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Plastics are an integral but largely inconspicuous part of human daily routines. Associated with a high production and single use nature of several products, small plastic particles became ubiquitous. Due to processes like water currents and winds, plastics may occur far from their place of origin and affect biota at different environmental compartments. In the environment plastics can degrade int ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.trac.2019.01.005

9. State-of-the-art in terahertz sensing for food and water security – A comprehensive review

Author:
Ren, Aifeng; Zahid, Adnan; Fan, Dou; Yang, Xiaodong; Imran, Muhammad Ali; Alomainy, Akram; Abbasi, Qammer H.
Source:
Trends in food science & technology 2019 v.85 pp. 241-251
ISSN:
0924-2244
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; food inspection; health services; microbial contamination; monitoring; water pollution; water security;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... Recently, there has been a dramatic change in the field of terahertz (THz) technology. The recent advancements in the THz radiation sector considering generation, manipulation and detection have brought revolution in this field, which enable the integration of THz sensing systems into real-world. The THz technology presents detection techniques and various issues, while providing significant oppor ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.tifs.2019.01.019

10. Part of the Problem or the Solution? Indiscriminate Use of Bacteriophages in the Food Industry Can Reduce their Potential and Impair Growth-based Detection Methods

Author:
Fister, Susanne; Mester, Patrick; Witte, Anna Kristina; Sommer, Julia; Schoder, Dagmar; Rossmanith, Peter
Source:
Trends in food science & technology 2019
ISSN:
0924-2244
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; antibiotics; bacteria; bacteriophages; disinfectants; food industry; food production; monitoring;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... .Bacteriophages are increasingly used as alternatives to conventional antibiotics, although very limited data is available in respect of consequences within the plant and for monitoring processes..This commentary provides a critical view on the use of phages in food production processes and summarises possible disadvantages and problems which can arise. Further, prevention strategies and proposals ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.tifs.2019.02.031

11. As clean as they look? Food hygiene inspection scores, microbiological contamination, and foodborne illness

Author:
Fleetwood, Janet; Rahman, Shamim; Holland, Darren; Millson, David; Thomson, Laura; Poppy, Guy
Source:
Food control 2019 v.96 pp. 76-86
ISSN:
0956-7135
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; compliance; food sanitation; foodborne illness; theoretical models; England; Northern Ireland; Wales;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... This work describes the relationship between compliance with food hygiene law as reflected in food hygiene scores; measures of microbiological contamination of food samples taken from consumer-facing food businesses in England, Northern Ireland and Wales; and outbreaks of foodborne illness. This paper demonstrates an association between the results of food hygiene inspections done by trained inspe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.08.034

12. Influence of plasma characteristics on the efficacy of Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) for inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella Typhimurium biofilms

Author:
Govaert, Marlies; Smet, Cindy; Vergauwen, Laurens; Ećimović, Branimir; Walsh, James L.; Baka, Maria; Van Impe, Jan
Source:
Innovative food science & emerging technologies 2019
ISSN:
1466-8564
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; Listeria monocytogenes; Salmonella Typhimurium; bacteria; biofilm; cleaning; disinfection; electric potential difference; electrodes; foods; oxygen;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... The biofilm mode of growth protects bacterial cells from applied disinfection methods for abiotic (food) contact surfaces. Therefore, new inactivation technologies such as Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) should be considered. However, the influence of different plasma characteristics on the CAP efficacy for biofilm inactivation requires further study. In this research, the influence of (i) the appli ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ifset.2019.01.013

13. Flexible and transparent Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)-Active Ag NPs/PDMS composites for in-situ detection of food contaminants

Author:
Alyami, Abeer; Quinn, Aidan J.; Iacopino, Daniela
Source:
Talanta 2019 v.201 pp. 58-64
ISSN:
0039-9140
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; Raman spectroscopy; fish skin; food surfaces; fruits; gentian violet; microextraction; monitoring; nanosilver; orange peels; pollutants; thiram;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... The fabrication of flexible and transparent Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) substrates enabling fast, sensitive and on site detection is relevant for the practical application of SERS for real world analysis, such as food safety and organic pollutants monitoring. In this work novel Ag NPs/PDMS composites were fabricated and employed for the SERS detection of food contaminants directly on ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.talanta.2019.03.115

14. The boomerang effect – environmental exposure to pharmaceuticals

Author:
Oldenkamp, Rik
Source:
Sustainable chemistry and pharmacy 2019 v.12 pp. 100128
ISSN:
2352-5541
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; antibiotics; crops; drugs; environmental exposure; geographical variation; infants; ingestion; models; monitoring; risk; surface water; water pollution; Spain;     Show all 14 Subjects
Abstract:
... Nowadays, many pharmaceuticals are detected in surface waters around the world. Because of the extent of the issue, monitoring alone cannot provide a complete overview of the situation. To guide smart monitoring efforts and optimal mitigation measures, spatially explicit models can be used. We show that geographical variability leads to substantial differences in environmental exposure to pharmace ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scp.2019.01.005

15. Contribution of the methodology of collective expertise to the mitigation of food safety hazards in low- or medium-income countries

Author:
Montet, Didier; Hazm, Jamal Eddine; Ouadia, Abdelouahab; Chichi, Abdellah; Mbaye, Mame Samba; Diop, Michel Bakar; Mobinzo, Paul; Biloso, Apollinaire; Diansambu, Isaac; Scher, Joël; Scippo, Marie-Louise; Crespo, Maria-Teresa Barreto
Source:
Food control 2019 v.99 pp. 84-88
ISSN:
0956-7135
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; food chain; food security; international trade; nutritive value; politics; private enterprises; public health; supply chain; universities;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Food safety and quality is a major political topic due to numbers of deaths and hospitalizations all over the world due to food contamination, due to the increasing concern of consumers with public health related issues, due to increasing complexity of internationalization of food chains, along with the stronger sanitary standards set for international trade. Many constraints can explain the delay ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.12.009

16. Human intoxication by agrochemicals in the region of South Brazil between 1999 and 2014

Author:
Hendges, Camila; Schiller, Andréia da Paz; Manfrin, Jéssica; Macedo, Eurides Kuster; Gonçalves, Affonso C.; Stangarlin, José Renato
Source:
Journal of environmental science and health 2019 v.54 no.4 pp. 219-225
ISSN:
1532-4109
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; accidents; agrochemicals; air; complications (disease); databases; death; females; males; pesticides; poisoning; suicide; urban areas; women; Brazil;     Show all 15 Subjects
Abstract:
... The objective of this study was to evaluate pesticide poisonings in the southern region of Brazil between years 1999 and 2014. Data were collected from the database Sinitox. Intoxications and deaths were evaluated according to the distribution by gender (female and male), age group (≤14, 15–59 and ≥60 years), area of occurrence (urban and rural), circumstance (accident, occupational and suicide at ...
DOI:
10.1080/03601234.2018.1550300

17. Fabrication of gold nanorods for SERS detection of thiabendazole in apple

Author:
Fu, Gendi; Sun, Da-Wen; Pu, Hongbin; Wei, Qingyi
Source:
Talanta 2019 v.195 pp. 841-849
ISSN:
0039-9140
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; Raman spectroscopy; apples; detection limit; food matrix; gold; human health; methanol; nanogold; nanorods; pesticides; standard deviation; thiabendazole;     Show all 13 Subjects
Abstract:
... Thiabendazole (TBZ) is a kind of pesticide that is widely used in agriculture, and its residue may pose a threat to human health. In order to measure TBZ residues in food samples, a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method combined with a homogeneous and reusable gold nanorods (GNR) array substrate was proposed. GNR with a high uniformity was synthesized and then applied to the self-assem ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.talanta.2018.11.114

18. Untargeted food chemical safety assessment: A proof-of-concept on two analytical platforms and contamination scenarios of tea

Author:
Delaporte, Grégoire; Cladière, Mathieu; Camel, Valérie
Source:
Food control 2019 v.98 pp. 510-519
ISSN:
0956-7135
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; automation; chemical pollutants; chemometrics; data collection; food matrix; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; safety assessment; tea;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... This study aims at assessing the capability of comparing and combining different instrumental platforms in an untargeted approach with a view of detecting chemical contaminants in food matrices at low levels. A strategy based on liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) and chemometrics has been applied on two different complex food contamination scenarios, with tea as stud ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodcont.2018.12.004

19. Electrochemiluminecence nanogears aptasensor based on MIL-53(Fe)@CdS for multiplexed detection of kanamycin and neomycin

Author:
Feng, Defen; Tan, Xuecai; Wu, Yeyu; Ai, Chenhao; Luo, Yanni; Chen, Quanyou; Han, Heyou
Source:
Biosensors & bioelectronics 2019 v.129 pp. 100-106
ISSN:
0956-5663
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; antibiotic residues; aptasensors; coordination polymers; energy transfer; iron; kanamycin; nanogold; neomycin; oligonucleotides; surface plasmon resonance;     Show all 11 Subjects
Abstract:
... A dual gears electrochemiluminecence (ECL) aptasensing strategy for multiple selective determination of kanamycin and neocycin was designed on the basis of the combination of kanamycin and neocycin induced dual gears conversion, the loading platform of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and ECL resonance energy transfer (ERET) between CdS QDs and AuNPs (or PtNPs). In ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.bios.2018.12.050

20. Rapid determination of atrazine in apple juice using molecularly imprinted polymers coupled with gold nanoparticles-colorimetric/SERS dual chemosensor

Author:
Zhao, Bowen; Feng, Shaolong; Hu, Yaxi; Wang, Shuo; Lu, Xiaonan
Source:
Food chemistry 2019 v.276 pp. 366-375
ISSN:
0308-8146
Subject:
food contamination,   etc   ; Raman spectroscopy; apple juice; atrazine; chemical pollutants; colorimetry; detection limit; nanogold; polymers; protocols; solid phase extraction; sorbents;     Show all 12 Subjects
Abstract:
... Rapid and reliable determination of atrazine, a common chemical contaminant, in agri-foods is highly necessary. We reported a novel dual-chemosensor coupling, a separation [molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs)], an instrumental-free detection [gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)-based colorimetric assay] and an instrument-based quantification [surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)] method for high-th ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.10.036