{"title":"[Frequency of Worsening Clinical Test Values Related to Supplement Use: Estimation by Using Nationwide Online Survey].","authors":"Chiharu Nishijima, Tsuyoshi Chiba, Keizo Umegaki","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the frequency of worsening clinical test values related to supplement use using a nationwide online survey, with a focus on liver function markers, and clarified the differences between outcome indices of diarrhea or skin manifestations. A nationwide online survey was conducted with 73,010 supplement users from the previous year. Of these, 221 individuals with worsening clinical test values responded to the full-scale survey. To compare surveys with different outcome indices, we used previously reported data from similar surveys.Only 0.5% of individuals who self-reported worsening of clinical test values caused by supplement use recognized an almost certain causal relationship. Among the test items, blood lipids were the most frequently reported. The frequency of worsening liver function markers was 0.2% in supplement users. Among those who experienced worsening clinical test values, 56.1% received no treatment and 82.4% did not report the incidence of worsening clinical test values anywhere. The ingredient-based classification of products revealed more \"Peptides or animal by-products\" and \"Combination products/not classifiable products\" than those associated with other categories. Compared to the results of the survey about the experience of diarrhea or skin manifestations, those who experienced worsening clinical test values were predominantly men, frequent and long-term users, and individuals whose products could not be identified.Few supplement users experience worsening of liver function markers, which does not seem serious. However, it is difficult for supplement users to recognize abnormal changes by themselves. Thus, it is important to record product information, usage, and changes in physical condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 5","pages":"169-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40663537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Tetrodotoxin Intoxications in Nagasaki, Japan: Symptoms of Patients, Tetrodotoxin Levels in Leftover Food and Clinical Urine and Serum Samples].","authors":"Kazunari Tsujimura, Hironobu Matsuo, Kaori Taniguchi, Hiroki Yoshimura","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Incidents of food poisoning associated with tetrodotoxin (TTX) contamination occur every year throughout Japan. Here, we determined TTX levels in leftover foods and serum and urine samples from eight food poisoning incidents associated with TTX contamination in Nagasaki, Japan, from 2011 to 2017.Seven food samples associated with four of these food poisoning incidents were classified as weakly toxic (four samples), moderate-to-strongly toxic (two samples), and strongly toxic (one sample).In comparison with previous reports, TTX was detected at harmful levels in the urine samples, but the grade of poisoning symptoms varied.The patients' time to maximum serum TTX levels (T<sub>max</sub>) was estimated to be 12-24 h after ingestion of TTX-containing foods. Additionally, serum TTX levels of 19.5 ng/mL or higher within 24 h after ingestion indicated Grade 3 poisoning associated with respiratory abnormalities.These conditions were considered indicators of severe symptoms, while TTX levels of 1-3 ng/mL relate to the onset and disappearance of symptoms. A negative correlation was found between the logarithm of serum TTX concentration and the time after ingestion for two patients, indicating that the TTX serum levels decreased logarithmically. Furthermore, the TTX serum half-lives (T<sub>1/2</sub>) were 17.5 and 23.7 h.The results of this study enhance our understanding of TTX food safety and contribute to TTX risk assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 5","pages":"182-189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40663539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Internal Quality Control of Residual Pesticides Analysis Using Multiple Stable Isotope Labeled Compounds].","authors":"Kosuke Fukatsu, Tomoyuki Tsuchiyama, Masaru Taniguchi, Kazumasa Niwa, Jun Sugiura, Hitoshi Miyazaki","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.163","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Internal quality control (IQC) is essential to ensure the reliability of the results of chemical analysis. In this study, we propose a novel method of IQC for multiresidue analysis of pesticides. A total of seven stable isotope labeled compounds (SILC) were added to analytical samples and were used to monitor and evaluate the quality of analytical results. In contrast to conventional IQC method in which only a limited number of control materials were analyzed to ensure the reliability of the results for an entire batch, the developed method can monitor the analytical quality of all the samples in the batch. It was shown that the developed method could achieve better performance than that of conventional method. Therefore, the developed method is considered to be promising for practical applications.(Received January 27, 2022; Accepted July 4, 2022).</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 5","pages":"163-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40663536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Evaluation of the Capacity to Produce Histamine by Histamine-Producing Bacteria during Storage at 10℃].","authors":"Yusuke Chiba, Akane Fujiwara, Noritaka Yoshino, Misa Ohsaka, Mika Sato, Saeko Takase, Rie Doi, Kayoko Ohtsuka, Shinichi Shimada, Rie Ishii","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.129","DOIUrl":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Histamine is produced from histidine using histidine decarboxylase of histamine-producing bacteria. However, associated histamine food poisoning demands microbiological controls. Furthermore, studies reported that histamine production by histamine-producing bacteria is affected by temperature. Therefore, to prevent histamine food poisoning, it is desirable to store foods below 4℃. However, it is challenging to maintain the storage temperature of food substances in refrigerators constantly below 4℃. Thus, we investigated histamine production capacity using seven histamine-producing bacterial strains under storage at 10℃, a more reasonable cold storage condition. Subsequently, we examined the variation of histamine production in buffers, the correlation between bacterial density and histamine production quantities, and the growth rate in broths. Results showed that similar levels of histamine were produced in buffers even after 5 days of storage under certain conditions in which histamine-producing bacteria did not grow. Moreover, bacterial density was proportional to histamine production, and the coefficient of determination was more than 0.97, and the bacterial density required to produce 200 μg/mL of histamine during storage at 10℃ was calculated to be 4×10<sup>7</sup>-4×10<sup>8</sup> CFU/mL. When the initial bacterial density was 10<sup>2</sup>-10<sup>3</sup> CFU/mL, psychrophilic bacteria required 2 or 3 days and mesophilic bacteria required more than 4 days to grow above 10<sup>7</sup> CFU/mL. The above results suggest that understanding the capacity of histamine-producing bacteria to produce histamine and its growth rate in foods is important for the prevention of histamine food poisoning.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 4","pages":"129-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40336838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Proteome Analysis for Identification of the Origin of Biological Foreign Substances].","authors":"Yukako Sato, Tomoko Dewa, Koji Suzuki, Yasushi Nagatomi, Tetsuro Magarifuchi, Yasuhisa Miyamoto","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.218","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have developed a method for determination of the species of origin of biological foreign substances using proteomics analysis technology. That is, the amino acid sequence of the tryptic digested product of the protein extracted from the foreign substance is determined by high-resolution LC-MS, and the amino acid sequence is collated with a public protein database to determine the origin species of the foreign substance. As a result of testing meat (beef, pork, chicken) and egg (chicken, quail) from known origin as simulated foreign substances, we were able to find species-specific amino acid sequences for each species, suggesting that the developed method is useful for species discrimination of a foreign substances that have been heat-treated with retort, this method is potentially useful to complement DNA analysis, for determination of the species of origin of foreign substances.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 6","pages":"218-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10449906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Determination of Quinclorac in Livestock Products by LC-MS/MS].","authors":"Yutaro Takewaki, Ryo Okabe, Satoru Nemoto, Mitsutoshi Aoyagi","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based method was developed for determining quinclorac in livestock products. Quinclorac was extracted from the samples using a solution of acetone and hydrochloric acid mixed in a 99 : 1 ratio. The crude extract was purified with ethyl acetate under basic conditions, followed by quinclorac extraction with ethyl acetate under acidic conditions and analysis using LC-MS/MS. The average recoveries of quinclorac from five livestock products (n=5) fortified at the maximum residue limits or 0.01 mg/kg ranged from 85.6 to 93.5%, with the precision of repeatability ranging from 1.7 to 6.8%. The quantification limit in this analytical method was 0.01 mg/kg. These results suggest that the developed method is useful for analyzing quinclorac in livestock products.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 5","pages":"177-181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40663538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Single-laboratory Validation of an Analytical Method for Detarmination of Fusarium toxins in Buckwheat and Job's Tears].","authors":"Miho Kawanishi, Kazuya Suenaga, Tomohiro Hirano","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.117","DOIUrl":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fusarium species infect the major cereals consumed as food and feed, contaminating them with various toxic secondary metabolites known as toxins. Among these toxins, which include trichothecenes, zearalenone (ZEA), and fumonisins, the type-B trichothecene deoxynivalenol (DON) is generally considered as the most important. The present study evaluates an analytical method for the detection and quantification of multiple Fusarium toxins, namely, DON, acetyl forms of DON (3-Ac-DON and 15-Ac-DON), a glycoside form of DON (DON-3G), and other Fusarium toxins (nivalenol, an acetyl form of NIV (fusarenonX), T-2 and HT-2 toxins, diacetoxyscirpenol, and ZEA) in Job's tears and buckwheat.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 3","pages":"117-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40523908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Detection of Tetrodotoxin in Vomit and Urine from a Patient Suffering from Pufferfish Poisoning].","authors":"Junko Namba, Toyohiro Urayama, Hidefumi Kaneko, Atsushi Sato, Kae Fujimoto, Noriko Shigeta","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We experienced a pufferfish poisoning case where no food residue was available to detect a causative agent. However, tetrodotoxin (TTX) was detected in vomit and urine samples from a patient using LC-MS/MS. Furthermore, we found a significant matrix effect in this analysis, indicating that the retention time of vomit and urine was not identical to the TTX standard solution and measured values multiplied by the dilution factors were not constant. Elimination of this matrix effect was attained by dilution of samples based on the retention time of the TTX standard solution, i.e., 10-time dilution of vomit test sample for LC-MS/MS analysis or 100-200-time dilution of urine one. Further research on urine analytical methods revealed that when TTX concentrations were too low to identify its peak on a chromatogram, TTX could be identified through a dilution procedure. It also showed that the application of the matrix-added TTX standard solution was effective for quantitative analysis under the influence of the matrix.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 6","pages":"225-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10449907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Quantitative Analysis of Bisacurone in Turmeric by HPLC Using Relative Molar Sensitivity].","authors":"Kazuo Koyama, Hiroshi Sasako, Yohei Higashi, Hirono Ichikawa, Ayako Nagoya, Takashi Hirao","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.202","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A novel method was developed for quantification of bisacuron (BC) and dehydrozingerone (DZ), the functional component of turmeric (Curcuma longa.L)-containing foods, using a relative molar sensitivity (RMS) method based on the combination of HPLC-UV and <sup>1</sup>H-NMR. The RMSs of BC and DZ using 4-hydroxybenzoic acid ethyl ester (HBE) as the internal standard were calculated to 1.66 and 2.55, respectively. Analysis of fourteen beverage products showed the high correlations between the concentrations of BC and DZ quantified by the RMS method and those quantified by absolute calibration curve method. A collaborative study was conducted by four laboratories on one beverage and one tablet products. The repeatable relative standard deviation (RSD<sub>r</sub>) of intra-laboratories ranged from 0.7 to 1.7%, and the reproducible relative standard deviation (RSD<sub>R</sub>) of inter-laboratories ranged from 2.0 to 7.3%. The RMS method enabled the quantification of analytes for which difficultly obtain standard materials such as BC and DZ, using an internal standard for which obtain routinely readily available. This RMS method is expected to be applied to quality control for food products containing turmeric.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 6","pages":"202-209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10816272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Prevalence of Foodborne Pathogens in Retail Meat in Saitama, Japan].","authors":"Nozomi Sakakida, Mika Sato, Satomi Kando, Kaori Kashima, Shinichi Shimada, Rie Ishii","doi":"10.3358/shokueishi.63.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3358/shokueishi.63.151","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, Salmonella, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Yersinia enterocolitica, and Escherichia albertii in domestic chicken and pork sold at retail stores in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Campylobacter was detected in 35.7% (60/168) of chicken samples and 7.3% (14/190) of pork samples. C. jejuni and C. coli were predominant in chicken and pork, respectively. Salmonella was found in 58.1% (100/172) of chicken samples and 19.9% (41/206) of pork samples. Moreover, Salmonella Schwarzengrund was the major serovar observed in chicken isolates, whereas S. Typhimurium monophasic variant was in pork isolates. Furthermore, ETEC was found in 0.6% (1/160) of chicken samples and 2.4% (5/206) of pork samples. Y. enterocolitica was absent from all (83/83) chicken samples but was present in 9.3% (18/193) of pork samples, with a prevalence in pork tongues as high as 21.0% (13/62 samples). However, EHEC and E. albertii were not detected in our study. Therefore, the results of this study indicate that chicken was highly contaminated with Campylobacter sp. and Salmonella, and pork was with Y. enterocolitica serotype O3, Campylobacter sp., Salmonella, and ETEC.</p>","PeriodicalId":54373,"journal":{"name":"Food Hygiene and Safety Science","volume":"63 4","pages":"151-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40335167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}