{"title":"Fresh produce as a potential vehicle for transmission of Acinetobacter baumannii","authors":"Qutaiba Ababneh, Ekhlas Al-Rousan, Z. Jaradat","doi":"10.1186/s40550-022-00092-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-022-00092-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45310010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Nahle, A. Khoury, I. Savvaidis, A. Chokr, N. Louka, A. Atoui
{"title":"Detoxification approaches of mycotoxins: by microorganisms, biofilms and enzymes","authors":"S. Nahle, A. Khoury, I. Savvaidis, A. Chokr, N. Louka, A. Atoui","doi":"10.1186/s40550-022-00089-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-022-00089-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43442286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Segni Bedasa, Daniel Shiferaw, A. Abraha, Tesfanesh Moges
{"title":"Retraction Note: Occurrence and antimicrobial susceptibility profile of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from food of animal origin in Bishoftu town, Central Ethiopia","authors":"Segni Bedasa, Daniel Shiferaw, A. Abraha, Tesfanesh Moges","doi":"10.1186/s40550-022-00088-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-022-00088-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"9 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44515612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Nasrollahzadeh, S. Mokhtari, M. Khomeiri, P. Saris
{"title":"Mycotoxin detoxification of food by lactic acid bacteria","authors":"Ahmad Nasrollahzadeh, S. Mokhtari, M. Khomeiri, P. Saris","doi":"10.1186/s40550-021-00087-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-021-00087-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46147666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Ssemugabo, Asa Bradman, John C Ssempebwa, Fenna Sillé, David Guwatudde
{"title":"An assessment of health risks posed by consumption of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables among residents in the Kampala Metropolitan Area in Uganda.","authors":"Charles Ssemugabo, Asa Bradman, John C Ssempebwa, Fenna Sillé, David Guwatudde","doi":"10.1186/s40550-022-00090-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s40550-022-00090-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pesticide use for fruits and vegetable production in Uganda may result in presence of residues on produce which may pose health risks to consumers. Uganda does not have an established system for monitoring pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables and assessing potential health risks. This research aimed to conduct a health risk assessment of presence of pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables in the Kampala Metropolitan Area in Uganda.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Pesticides were measured in 160 fruits and vegetables samples collected at farms, markets, street vendors, restaurants and homes; and analysed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Fruit and vegetable consumption information was collected from 2177 people. Pesticide concentrations were compared with European Union maximum residual limits (MRLs). Mean values of pesticide concentration residues found in the sample of fruits and vegetables; and fruits and vegetables intake and body weight were used to calculate the estimated daily intake (EDI) of pesticide residues. EDI values were compared with acceptable daily intakes (ADI) to calculate the hazard quotient by age group, and stage at which consumption happens along the chain.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 57 pesticides were detected in fruits and vegetables from farm to fork. Of the 57, 39 pesticides were detected in all the fruits and vegetables studied. Concentrations of fonofos, fenitrothion and fenhexamid were above the European Union MRLs in some samples. Hazard quotients based on dietary ingestion scenarios for 18 pesticides, including dichlorvos (444) alanycarb (314), fonofos (68), fenitrothion (62), dioxacarb (55) and benfuracarb (24) and others, were above 1, indicating the possibility of chronic health risk to consumers. Chronic health risk decreased with age but was stable for stage at which consumption happens along the food chain. The number of pesticides with EDI greater than the ADI decreased with increase in age; with 18, 13, 9, 11, 8, 9, and 9 pesticides for age groups < 5, 5-12, 13-19, 20-25, 36-49 and ≥ 50 respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Chronic dietary pesticide exposures to Ugandans are likely common, and for some pesticides result in exposure exceeding health-based benchmarks. Risks were highest for younger participants. There is an urgent need to increase monitoring and regulation of pesticides in fruits and vegetables in order to protect consumers, especially the children who are vulnerable to the adverse effects of pesticides.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s40550-022-00090-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":" ","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9050770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44672485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heavy metal contamination and health risk assessment of mechanically milled delicacy called fufu","authors":"M. A. Nkansah, Patrica-Ivy Agorsor, F. Opoku","doi":"10.1186/s40550-021-00085-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-021-00085-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41507947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rossana Scarpone, R. Rocchi, Federico Bacà, R. Rosato, Francesco Chiumiento, G. Migliorati
{"title":"Alternative method’s results for the non targeted determination of xenobiotics in food by means of high resolution and accuracy mass spectrometry","authors":"Rossana Scarpone, R. Rocchi, Federico Bacà, R. Rosato, Francesco Chiumiento, G. Migliorati","doi":"10.1186/s40550-021-00086-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-021-00086-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44770793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring of Paraquat in soya products intended for animal feed","authors":"Franziska Heydebreck","doi":"10.1186/s40550-021-00084-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-021-00084-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43942721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fanta D. Gutema, R. D. Abdi, G. Agga, Seyoum Firew, G. Rasschaert, W. Mattheus, F. Crombé, L. Duchateau, S. Gabriël, L. De Zutter
{"title":"Assessment of beef carcass contamination with Salmonella and E. coli O 157 in slaughterhouses in Bishoftu, Ethiopia","authors":"Fanta D. Gutema, R. D. Abdi, G. Agga, Seyoum Firew, G. Rasschaert, W. Mattheus, F. Crombé, L. Duchateau, S. Gabriël, L. De Zutter","doi":"10.1186/s40550-021-00082-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-021-00082-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40550-021-00082-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65701295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Karimi, N. Shariatifar, M. Rezaei, Mahsa Alikord, Majid Arabameri
{"title":"Quantitative measurement of toxic metals and assessment of health risk in agricultural products food from Markazi Province of Iran","authors":"F. Karimi, N. Shariatifar, M. Rezaei, Mahsa Alikord, Majid Arabameri","doi":"10.1186/s40550-021-00083-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s40550-021-00083-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Food Contamination","volume":" ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s40550-021-00083-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44484479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}