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The Sources of Chemical Contaminants in Food and Their Health Implications

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2017
Food contamination is a matter of serious concern, as the high concentration of chemicals present in the edibles poses serious health risks. Protecting the public from the degrees of the harmfulness of contaminated foods has become a daunting task.
Irfan A. Rather, Wee Yin Koh, Woon K. Paek, Jeongheui Lim   +3 more
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Restaurant and Staff Characteristics Related to Practices that Could Contribute to Cross-Contamination

Journal of Food Protection, 2023
Foodborne illness is a persistent public health concern in the U.S.; over 800 foodborne illness outbreaks are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) annually.
E. Rickamer Hoover, Matthew Masters, Jona Johnson, Wendy McKelvey, Nicole Hedeen, Danny Ripley, Laura Brown   +6 more
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Recent Advances in Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors for Pesticide Detection in Foods

Biosensors, 2022
Biosensors are a simple, low-cost, and reliable way to detect pesticides in food matrices to ensure consumer food safety. This systematic review lists which nanomaterials, biorecognition materials, transduction methods, pesticides, and foods have ...
Ana Carolina de Morais Mirres, Brenno Enrique Pereira de Matos da Silva, Leticia Tessaro, Diego Galvan, Jelmir Craveiro de Andrade, Adriano Aquino, Nirav Joshi, Carlos Adam Conte-Junior   +7 more
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Determination of aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, ochratoxin A and zearalenone in wheat and oat based bran supplements sold in the Spanish market [PDF]

, 2013
The main objective of this study was to assess the exposure of Catalonian (Spain) population to AFs. Thus, two sub-objectives were considered: 1) to assess the occurrence of AFs in food marketed in Catalonia, and 2) to assess the consumption of those ...
Cano Sancho, German, Marín Sillué, Sònia, Ramos Girona, Antonio J., Sanchís Almenar, Vicente, Vidal Corominas, Arnau   +4 more
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Research Progress in Mathematical Simulation and Precise Prevention and Control Strategies for Cross Contamination Risk of Foodborne Pathogens [PDF]

Shipin Kexue
Cross-contamination of foodborne pathogenic bacteria is a widespread phenomenon in food processing and production, storage and transportation, and household consumption. It is regarded as one of the important causes of foodborne disease outbreaks.
XIONG Rongrong, LIU Jing, XU Huan, BAI Li, PAN Yingjie, ZHAO Yong, WANG Yibaina, ZHANG Zhaohuan
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Chitosan dual gel-like functionalized with flavonoid extract and cinnamaldehyde oil using dual cross-linking agents: Characterization, antioxidant, and antimicrobial effects

Current Research in Food Science
This study evaluated antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of chitosan gel (Cs-gel) functionalized with cinnamaldehyde oil (CN) and orange peel-derived flavonoid extract (Fs) using the ionic-gelation method.
Mahmoud Salah, Juanying Huang, Chenyang Zhu, Mabrouk Sobhy, Mohamed A. Farag, Yajing Fang, Remah Sobhy, Noman Walayat, Ibrahim Khalifa, Sajid Maqsood, Yun Wang   +10 more
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Microbes in Our Food, an Ongoing Problem with New Solutions

Antibiotics, 2020
Despite an increasing number of techniques that are designed to mitigate microbial contamination of food and the resulting food borne disease outbreaks, the United States and many other countries across the world continue to experience impressive numbers
Birgit M. Prüβ
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Current Measures on Radioactive Contamination in Japan: A Policy Situation Analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11th March 2011 and the subsequent Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster caused radioactive contamination in the surrounding environment.
Stuart Gilmour, Shoji Miyagawa, Fumiko Kasuga, Kenji Shibuya   +3 more
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The Correlation Between Food Hygiene and Sanitation in Food Vendors of Lalapan with Enterobacteriaceae Contamination in Fresh Vegetables

Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan, 2023
Lalapan is a fresh vegetable usually eat up with rice and other Indonesian dishes. However, fresh vegetables can potentially be contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, such as Enterobacteriaceae, harming consumers if not appropriately processed and ...
Muhammad Ali Shodikin, Enny Suswati, Bagus Hermansyah, Wiwin Sugih Utami, Dwita Aryadina , Nexia Nevarachell Onny Amirsyah   +5 more
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Endocrine disruptors in bottled mineral water : total estrogenic burden and migration from plastic bottles [PDF]

, 2009
Background, aim, and scope Food consumption is an important route of human exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. So far, this has been demonstrated by exposure modeling or analytical identification of single substances in foodstuff (e.g ...
Oehlmann, Jörg, Wagner, Martin
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