Although rates of listeriosis are low in comparison to other foodborne pathogenic illness, listeriosis poses a significant risk to human health as the invasive form can have a mortality rate as high as 30%. Food processors, especially those who produce ready-to-eat (RTE) products, need to be vigilant against Listeria monocytogenes, the causative pathogen of listeriosis, and as such, the occurre...

Background & objectives: Citrus lemon and lime juice, which contain high levels of vitamin C and natural antioxidant in the form of polyphenols, have a special place in the food basket of Iranian households. Flavonoids are among the polyphenolic compounds and Eriocitrin, Naringin and Hesperidin are among the most important flavonoids. Investigating the amount and type of polyphenols and flavono...

2-Alkylcyclobutanones (ACBs) are specific radiolytic products in irradiated lipid-containing food and can be used to detect irradiation of foodstuffs. EN1785, a European Committee Standardization Method, can detect 2-dodecylcyclobutanone (DCB) and 2-tetradecylcyclobutanone (TCB), which are ACBs, using GC/MS, thereby allowing judgement as to whether foodstuffs have been irradiated. In this study...

1Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Science, School of Public Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA 2Southeast Regional Laboratory, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Atlanta, GA, USA 3Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary 4Royal Hobart Hospital, University of Tasmania School of Medicine, Hobart, TAS, Austra...

Shewanella spp. is infrequently recovered from clinical specimens. Following two outbreaks of food poisoning, eight Shewanella spp. strains were obtained from the fecal specimens of patients, food and food processing-related materials. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) was identified in the culture supernatants of these strains, and the toxin's biological activity was detected using a mouse bioassay. This stu...

in the present study, a new chemically modified carbon paste electrode (cpe) is constructed for rapid, accurate, simple, highly sensitive, and selective determination of mo (vi) using differential pulse voltammetry. the electrode was prepared using magnetic nickel zinc ferrite nanocomposite (ni0.5zn0.5fe2o4), as the modifier in cpe (ni0.5zn0.5fe2o4/cpe). mo (vi) was determined after preconcentr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Staphylococcal food poisoning is a gastrointestinal disease, which is caused by consumption of contaminated food with enterotoxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus (SEs). Milk and its products are known sources of food borne diseases. This study was carried out to evaluate the prevalence of enterotoxigenic S. aureus strains in organic milk and cheese in Tabriz - Iran....

A new method for the determination of trace copper(II) in food samples by Cloud Point Extraction(CPE) combined with Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry(FAAS) is presented and evaluated. The method is based on the fact that hydrophobic complex of copper(II) with sodium diethyldithiocarbamate (DDTC) was formed at pH 6.0 and subsequently the hydrophobic complex was extracted into surfactant-r...