Persistent Organic Pollutants in Food: Contamination Sources, Health Effects and Detection Methods [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) present in foods have been a major concern for food safety due to their persistence and toxic effects. To ensure food safety and protect human health from POPs, it is critical to achieve a better understanding of POP ...
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Humanoid-shaped WaveFlex biosensor for the detection of food contamination. [PDF]
Biomed Opt Express, 2023 High-toxicity secondary metabolites called aflatoxin are naturally produced by the fungus Aspergillus. In a warm, humid climate, Aspergillus growth can be considerably accelerated.
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Public health concerns for food contamination in Ghana: A scoping review. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Nutrition is sturdily and rapidly becoming the foremost determinant of health in today’s Sars-Cov-2 and climate change ravaged world. While safe food sustains life, contamination obliterates its values and could result in death and short to long term ...
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Food contamination, food safety and COVID-19 outbreak [PDF]
Journal of Health Research, 2021 Purpose – COVID-19) is the present global problem. The potential for food borne transmission of COVID-19 becomes a present discussed public health issue.
Saitin Sim, Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Cyanotoxins and Food Contamination in Developing Countries: Review of Their Types, Toxicity, Analysis, Occurrence and Mitigation Strategies. [PDF]
Toxins (Basel), 2021 Cyanotoxins have gained global public interest due to their potential to bioaccumulate in food, which threatens human health. Bloom formation is usually enhanced under Mediterranean, subtropical and tropical climates which are the dominant climate types ...
Abdallah MF +4 more
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The Role of Bacterial Biofilm in Antibiotic Resistance and Food Contamination. [PDF]
Int J Microbiol, 2020 Biofilm is a microbial association or community attached to different biotic or abiotic surfaces or environments. These surface-attached microbial communities can be found in food, medical, industrial, and natural environments.
Abebe GM.
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Cold-chain food contamination as the possible origin of COVID-19 resurgence in Beijing. [PDF]
Natl Sci Rev, 2020 Cold-chain food contamination as the possible origin of COVID-19 resurgence in Beijing Xinghuo Pang1,2,†, Lili Ren3,4,†, Shuangsheng Wu1,2,†, Wentai Ma5,6,†, Jian Yang 7, Lin Di8, Jie Li9, Yan Xiao3,4, Lu Kang5,6, Shichang Du1,2, Jing Du1,2, Jing Wang1,2,
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Risk factors for child food contamination in low-income neighbourhoods of Maputo, Mozambique: An exploratory, cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Matern Child Nutr, 2020 In low‐ and middle‐income countries, food may be a critical transmission route for pathogens causing childhood diarrhoea, but basic food hygiene is often overlooked in public health strategies. Characterising child food contamination and its risk factors
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Effects of Food Contamination on Gastrointestinal Morbidity: Comparison of Different Machine-Learning Methods. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 Morbidity prediction can be useful in improving the effectiveness and efficiency of medical services, but accurate morbidity prediction is often difficult because of the complex relationships between diseases and their influencing factors.
Song Q, Zheng YJ, Yang J.
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Quantitative Analysis of Houseflies-mediated Food Contamination with Bacteria. [PDF]
Food Saf (Tokyo), 2019 Flies play a key role as vectors in transmitting various bacteria and pose bacterial contamination risk to food. To evaluate the time- and concentration-related bacterial contamination of food by houseflies based on their attraction to the food, we ...
Fukuda A, Usui M, Masui C, Tamura Y.
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