Assessment of the Risk of Probiotics in Terms of the Food Safety and Human Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 419-443
Author(s):  
Selin Kalkan ◽  
Zerrin Erginkaya ◽  
Emel Ünal Turhan ◽  
Gözde Konuray
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health

scholarly journals Development of a sensor system for animal watching to keep human health and food safety

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiro ITOH ◽  
Takashi MASUDA ◽  
Kenji TSUKAMOTO
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Sensor System

scholarly journals Mycotoxins Biocontrol Methods for Healthier Crops and Stored Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 348
Author(s):  
Kristina Habschied ◽  
Vinko Krstanović ◽  
Zvonimir Zdunić ◽  
Jurislav Babić ◽  
Krešimir Mastanjević ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Fungal Growth ◽  
Antifungal Compounds ◽  
Stored Products ◽  
Soil Air ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Environmental Systems ◽  
Antifungal Substances

Contamination of crops with phytopathogenic genera such as Fusarium, Aspergillus, Alternaria, and Penicillium usually results in mycotoxins in the stored crops or the final products (bread, beer, etc.). To reduce the damage and suppress the fungal growth, it is common to add antifungal substances during growth in the field or storage. Many of these antifungal substances are also harmful to human health and the reduction of their concentration would be of immense importance to food safety. Many eminent researchers are seeking a way to reduce the use of synthetic antifungal compounds and to implement more eco-friendly and healthier bioweapons against fungal proliferation and mycotoxin synthesis. This paper aims to address the recent advances in the effectiveness of biological antifungal compounds application against the aforementioned fungal genera and their species to enhance the protection of ecological and environmental systems involved in crop growing (water, soil, air) and to reduce fungicide contamination of food derived from these commodities.

scholarly journals Diversity and Drug Resistance of Filamentous Fungi Isolated from the Fresh Raspberries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewelina Farian ◽  
Angelina Wójcik-Fatla
Keyword(s):  
Drug Resistance ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Amphotericin B ◽  
Filamentous Fungi ◽  
Rubus Idaeus ◽  
Disc Diffusion ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Fungal Strains ◽  
Strip Method

AbstractFungi are one of the most widely distributed microorganisms in the environment, including food such as fruits, vegetables and other crops, posing a potential threat to food safety and human health. The aim of this study was to determine the diversity, intensity and drug resistance of potentially pathogenic filamentous fungi isolated from the fresh raspberries (Rubus idaeus L.). A total of 50 strains belonging to genera Fusarium, Cladosporium, Alternaria, Penicillium, Mucor, Rhizopus, Aspergillus and Acremonium were tested for drug resistance against 11 antifungals by disc diffusion and gradient strips methods. The average mycological contamination in the examined samples of raspberries amounted to 4.34 log CFU/g. The Cladosporium was isolated from all tested samples, followed by Alternaria and Fusarium with a frequency of 61% and 34%, respectively. The highest level of drug resistance was observed for Acremonium genera and Fusarium strains recorded a wide variation in drug resistance as revealed by susceptibility with amphotericin B and voriconzole with MICs ranged from 0.5–4 µg/ml and posaconazole with MICs ranging from 3–8 µg/ml. All fungal strains showed 100% resistance to caspofungin, fluconazole and flucytosine with both the methods, and 100% resistance to micafungin and anidulafungin in the gradient strip method.

Study on Food Safety and Green Food Packaging

2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 1915-1918
Author(s):  
Lin Lin Shang ◽  
Wei Feng
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Food Packaging ◽  
Packaging Materials ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
Safety Problem ◽  
Green Food ◽  
Potential Safety ◽  
Safe Food

Safe food packaging is of great significance in solving food safety problem, which can ensure the quality of the food. At the same time protecting the environment should be taken into consideration, and therefore sound food packaging is not only safe to human health but also green to the environment. In this paper potential safety hazards in food packaging materials and how to develop green food packaging are discussed at length.

Why the European Food Safety Authority was right to reject health claims for probiotics

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.B. Katan
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
European Food Safety Authority ◽  
Health Claims ◽  
Medical Claims ◽  
Eu Regulation ◽  
Legal Fiction ◽  
Health And Well Being

Probiotics are microbes that are claimed to promote health and well-being when added to foods. However, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has so far advised negatively about health claims for probiotics. Companies and scientists have protested against these rejections, sometimes in vigorous language. I argue that EFSA could not have acted differently, given EU regulations and the lack of convincing evidence for some of the claimed effects of probiotics on human health and well-being. One EU regulation that makes it hard to demonstrate the benefits of probiotics is the prohibition of medical claims, i.e. claims that a food prevents or cures a disease. If this prohibition did not exist, manufacturers of nutritional treatments might circumvent the costly procedures required for drugs, and market their products to ill people without thorough proof that they are effective and safe. However, the prohibition is also a legal fiction, because promotion of health and prevention of disease is largely the same thing. EFSA has recently indicated that it will allow health claims based on the ability of probiotics to reduce infections. To a certain extent, this abolishes the distinction between health claims and medical claims. It remains to be seen if probiotics producers can convince EFSA that their products prevent or cure infections and other diseases in humans.

Preharvest Food Safety, Zoonotic Diseases, and the Human Health Interface

2019 ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Julie Funk ◽  
Elizabeth Wagstrom
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases

scholarly journals Food-Safety Hazards in the Pork Chain in Nagaland, North East India: Implications for Human Health

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 403-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Fahrion ◽  
Lanu Jamir ◽  
Kenivole Richa ◽  
Sonuwara Begum ◽  
Vilatuo Rutsa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East

Is Acrylamide really a food safety issue?

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Dal Castel Krein ◽  
Rafaela Julyana Barboza Devos ◽  
Luciane Maria Colla ◽  
Christian Oliveira Reinehr
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Safety Issue ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Safety Problem

Purpose Acrylamide is a compound found in several food products. Due to the toxicity of this compound, research also seeks strategies to modify industrial and homemade processes, impacting on the reduction of the compound. This paper aims to discuss the aspects surrounding the presence of acrylamide in foods. Design/methodology/approach Published literature on the presence of acrylamide in foods and on its effects has been reviewed. This paper explores the importance of this compound, summarizes the knowledge of its formation and gathers data on its incidence in food and the possibilities of mitigation. Special attention is given to an evaluation of the toxicological tests applied, to analyze whether acrylamide can be considered as a food safety problem. Findings Human exposure to food with high levels of acrylamide varies in their levels regarding the consumption of food in the diet and not only by the level of the compound present in them. Although the compound is well defined as toxic to humans, the association between its intake and most common cancers may not be directly related. Originality/value Depending on the approach of the researchers, contradictory results are obtained, showing the importance of this topic to the development of healthy food products. Further research is still needed to validate the potential effects of acrylamide on human health.

Barcoded microbial system for high-resolution object provenance

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 368 (6495) ◽  
pp. 1135-1140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Qian ◽  
Zhi-xiang Lu ◽  
Christopher P. Mancuso ◽  
Han-Ying Jhuang ◽  
Rocío del Carmen Barajas-Ornelas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Nucleic Acid ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Nucleic Acid Detection ◽  
Single Spore ◽  
Detection Assay ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
Microbial System

Determining where an object has been is a fundamental challenge for human health, commerce, and food safety. Location-specific microbes in principle offer a cheap and sensitive way to determine object provenance. We created a synthetic, scalable microbial spore system that identifies object provenance in under 1 hour at meter-scale resolution and near single-spore sensitivity and can be safely introduced into and recovered from the environment. This system solves the key challenges in object provenance: persistence in the environment, scalability, rapid and facile decoding, and biocontainment. Our system is compatible with SHERLOCK, a Cas13a RNA-guided nucleic acid detection assay, facilitating its implementation in a wide range of applications.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Impact on Human Health of the Presence of Norovirus in Bivalve Molluscs: What Data Do We Miss?

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2444
Author(s):  
Federica Savini ◽  
Federica Giacometti ◽  
Federico Tomasello ◽  
Marta Pollesel ◽  
Silvia Piva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Bivalve Molluscs ◽  
Qualitative Risk Assessment ◽  
Biological Hazard ◽  
European Regulations ◽  
Fish And Fishery Products ◽  
The Impact

In the latest One Health ECDC EFSA technical report, Norovirus in fish and fishery products have been listed as the agent/food pair causing the highest number of strong-evidence outbreaks in the EU in 2019. This review aims to identify data gaps that must be filled in order to increase knowledge on Norovirus in bivalve molluscs, perform a risk assessment and rank the key mitigation strategies for this biological hazard, which is relevant to public health. Virologic determinations are not included in any of the food safety and process hygiene microbiologic criteria reflected in the current European regulations. In addition, the Escherichia coli-based indices of acceptable faecal contamination for primary production, as well as the food safety criteria, do not appear sufficient to indicate the extent of Norovirus contamination. The qualitative risk assessment data collected in this review suggests that bivalve molluscs present a high risk to human health for Norovirus only when consumed raw or when insufficiently cooked. On the contrary, the risk can be considered negligible when they are cooked at a high temperature, while information is still scarce for non-thermal treatments.

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