Showing papers in "Food Control in 2015"

TL;DR: Mechanisms of antimicrobial action, and the antimicrobial properties of plant essential oils are discussed, including their mode of action, effectiveness, synergistic effects, major components and use in foods.

TL;DR: An overview on EOs reported to have prominent efficacy against storage fungi, mycotoxins, and as antioxidants can be found in this paper, where safety concerns and future prospects as plant-based preservatives are also discussed.

TL;DR: The development and application of commercially available Salmonella detection methods are described and collaboration of the food emergency response laboratories in the development of these technologies is important essentially to compare for the purpose of continually improving Salmoneella detection methods.

TL;DR: A review of the various latest technological advancements such as innovative implementations of RFID that can make to increase the sales of wheat flour, or allowing the consumer to know the full record of the IV range products through the smartphone, provide new opportunities for enhancing the efficiency and compatibility of the present traceability systems.

TL;DR: The combined treatment of antimicrobial coating, gamma irradiation and MAP caused the reduction of microbial population to undetectable levels during the whole storage period for E. coli and S. Typhimurium and the obtained results can be interested to food companies aiming to ensure the food safety with a prolonged shelf life.

TL;DR: The results indicate that bacterial cell morphology, membrane integrity, and permeability are damaged when the E. coli and S. aureus cells are exposed to the minimum inhibitory concentrations of cinnamaldehyde.

TL;DR: The results indicated that 0.5% lactic acid could completely inhibit the growth of Salmonella Enteritidis, E. coli and Listeria cells, and suggested that the antimicrobial effect was probably caused by physiological and morphological changes in bacterial cells.

TL;DR: There is a need to determine the co-occurrence of mycotoxins in milk, including ochratoxin A, aflatoxins G1, G2, B1, B2 and M2, fumonisin B 1, cyclopiazonic acid, zearalenone and its metabolites and deepoxy-deoxynivalenol have been found in milk samples.

TL;DR: Improved by the magnetic separation and concentration effect of MNPs, the high sensitivity of UCNPs and the high affinity of aptamers, the present method performs with both high sensitivity and selectivity for CAP and can be applied to detect other antibiotics.

TL;DR: In this article, the antibacterial activities of Clove oil and liposome-encapsulated clove oil were investigated. But, a setback of using Clove oils as a disinfectant is its low chemical stability.

TL;DR: The ability of S. aureus to form biofilm on food processing surfaces (polystyrene and stainless steel) with regard to different temperatures (12 and 37 °C) and cellular hydrophobicity and strain-specific variation in biofilm formation was evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the antimicrobial effect of two different atmospheric pressure plasma applications for the decontamination of whole black pepper was investigated, and the results showed that both plasma applications did not considerable affect the quality parameters.

TL;DR: Antimicrobial activity of five essential oils was investigated up to 72 h against foodborne pathogens through disk diffusion and determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations, and the most active EOs were Thymus vulgaris and Origanum vulgare, followed by Cinnamomum zeylanicum, Rosmarinus Officinalis, and Salvia officinalis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the different viewpoints proposed by various researchers, and discussed the reasons for arriving at these conclusions, and summarized some general rules, and offered a proposal to study the reasons behind their conclusions by building mathematical model for prediction of principle factors.

TL;DR: In this article, a sensitive and specific colorimetric aptasensor for rapid detection of tetracycline (TET) in raw milk was developed by using cysteamine-stabilized gold nanoparticles (CS-AuNPs) as the probe.

TL;DR: In this paper, an aptamer-based biosensor for detection of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a mycotoxin identified as contaminant in food, is presented, which is assembled in a multilayer framework that utilizes cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for acquiring the signal response by means of redox indicators.

TL;DR: The coating effects of chitosan and nanochitosans nanoparticles on the quality of silver carp (Hypophthalmicthys molitrix) fillets during refrigerated storage at 4°C were compared as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A wide variety of culture and alternative methods have been developed in order to detect or quantify this pathogen in food, and here are presented the most rapid and sensitive methods.

TL;DR: Consumption of raw milk and dairy products are revealed as a potential risk of foodborne infection in this region and a high frequency of blaZ and tetM resistance genes was found in S. aureus isolates.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the uptake of e-PL into cells was promoted through nisin, and subsequently, e- PL interacted with the intracellular DNA achieving a synergistic effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the microbial and physicochemical characteristics of milk that was treated with encapsulated dielectric barrier discharge (DBDBD) plasma and found that encapsulated DBD plasma treatment for less than 10min improved the microbial quality of milk with slight changes in physicochemical quality.

TL;DR: In this article, food safety knowledge, attitudes and practices of vendors and consumers of street food in Port-au-Prince, Haiti were evaluated. But, the authors did not find that gender, training, level of education and location did not have a significant effect.

TL;DR: In this paper, six European scientific institutions sampled twelve food processing environments (FPEs) in a harmonized methodological approach and found that Listeria monocytogenes was present in 32% and 8.8% of the FPEs, respectively.

TL;DR: A governmental initiative to enforce a regulatory program based on DNA Barcode identification of mislabeled seafood products commercialized in Southern Brazil marketplaces, resulting in financial penalties to retailers may discourage deliberate replacement in the seafood market and lead to a significant reduction in seafood mislabeling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of the heat-inactived lactic acid bacteria (LAB) cells involved in the adsorption of patulin were identified by Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDS), Transmission Electron microscopy (TEM) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) technique.

TL;DR: In this article, the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) region was used to identify fish and seafood samples from across the United States, and a rate of mislabeling among restaurants of 16.3% (28 out of 172 samples) was found.

TL;DR: To determine the presence of pesticide residues in Polish fruits and vegetables and to assess if these residues pose a risk to the health of the consumer, and compliance with legal regulations concerning the use of plant protection products in crop cultivation was ascertained.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of chitosan, calcium chloride, and their combination on preventing quality and safety deterioration of post-harvest fresh-cut honeydew melon at 7°C were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the levels of volatile nitrosamines (VNA) and NVNA in processed meat products on the Danish market ( N ǫ = 70) and for comparison also products on Belgian market (N Ǫ = 20).

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