Food Safety & Storage

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) in certain plant species create contamination, especially in production areas, and pose a risk to public health with the consumption of foods. Due to their sensitivity to intoxications, it has hepatotoxic, pneumotoxic, genotoxic, mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic...

Meat adulteration has seriously threatened public health security. Fast, accurate and reliable animal-derived component detection technology is the key to effective supervision and detection of meat adulteration. This article summarized the common forms of adulteration, and comprehensively...

Molds and their toxins, mycotoxins, are of major global challenges in the food industry due to their harmful effects on human health as well as their economic losses. Tomato and its products are prone to fungal spoilage at industrial and consumer levels. In this study, we aim to emphasize the...

Fungal storage pathogens of pome fruits are responsible for major losses worldwide. The fruits get infected in the field, but symptoms start to be visible during the storage period, which is problematic for their marketing and trading. Detecting the latent infections is a challenge but provides...

The European Commission has brought in regulations to lower the amount of cadmium in food in the EU. This move is in line with the European cancer...

Food contamination with Bacillus cereus originates either directly from the soil or from contaminated equipment (Guinebretiere and Nguyen-The, 2003;...

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) in certain plant species create contamination, especially in production areas, and pose a risk to public health with the consumption of foods. Due to their sensitivity to intoxications, it has hepatotoxic, pneumotoxic, genotoxic, mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic...