Fresh fruit and vegetables as vehicles for the transmission of human pathogens

CN Berger, SV Sodha, RK Shaw… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Much research into food‐borne human pathogens has focused on transmission from foods
of animal origin. However, recent investigations have identified fruits and vegetables are the …

Salmonellosis outbreaks in the United States due to fresh produce: sources and potential intervention measures

IB Hanning, JD Nutt, SC Ricke - Foodborne pathogens and disease, 2009 - liebertpub.com
Foodborne Salmonella spp. is a leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States
each year. Traditionally, most cases of salmonellosis were thought to originate from meat …

Outbreaks and factors influencing microbiological contamination of fresh produce

Y Wadamori, R Gooneratne… - Journal of the Science of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Fresh fruits and vegetables are nutritionally well‐recognised as healthy components in diets.
The microbiological foodborne outbreaks associated with the consumption of fresh produce …

Salmonella in surface and drinking water: occurrence and water-mediated transmission

C Levantesi, L Bonadonna, R Briancesco… - Food Research …, 2012 - Elsevier
Salmonella is one of the leading causes of intestinal illness all over the world as well as the
etiological agent of more severe systemic diseases such as typhoid and paratyphoid fevers …

Recent advances in the microbial safety of fresh fruits and vegetables

K Warriner, A Huber, A Namvar, W Fan… - Advances in food and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Foodborne illness outbreaks linked to fresh produce are becoming more frequent and
widespread. High impact outbreaks, such as that associated with spinach contaminated with …

Bacteriological safety of sprouts: A brief review

RF Miyahira, AEC Antunes - International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The germination process causes changes in the chemical composition of seeds that
improves the nutritional value of sprouts, while decreasing their microbiological safety, since …

Salmonella and produce: survival in the plant environment and implications in food safety

MK Fatica, KR Schneider - Virulence, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
There has been a continuous rise in the number of produce-based foodborne outbreaks in
the recent decades despite the perception that foodborne diseases were primarily linked to …

Interrelationships of food safety and plant pathology: the life cycle of human pathogens on plants

JD Barak, BK Schroeder - Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Bacterial food-borne pathogens use plants as vectors between animal hosts, all the while
following the life cycle script of plant-associated bacteria. Similar to phytobacteria …

Detection and differentiation of foodborne pathogenic bacteria in mung bean sprouts using field deployable label-free SERS devices

X Wu, C Xu, RA Tripp, Y Huang, Y Zhao - Analyst, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Vancomycin functionalized silver nanorod arrays substrates were used to obtain the surface
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signals of six foodborne pathogenic bacteria in mung …