Food Contamination

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • An outbreak of Shigella sonnei gastroenteritis on Colorado River raft trips. 
  • An outbreak of foodborne botulism associated with food sold at a salvage store in Texas. 
  • Analysis of total aerobic viable counts in raw fish by high-throughput optical oxygen respirometry. 
  • Application of isolated hepatocytes to studies of drug metabolism in large food animals. 
  • Bacterial contamination of animal feed and its relationship to human foodborne illness. 
  • Chronic toxicity of fumonisins from Fusarium moniliforme culture material (M-1325) to mink. 
  • Communicating Arsenic's Risks. 
  • Consumption of dairy products and the risk of breast cancer: a review of the literature. 
  • Contamination of weaning foods and transmission of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea in children in rural Bangladesh. 
  • Dietary intake polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and associated cancer risk in a cohort of Chinese urban adults: Inter- and intra-individual variability. 
  • Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media. 
  • Exposure to fumonisins and the occurrence of neural tube defects along the Texas-Mexico border. 
  • Food safety. Lead, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and irradiation. 
  • From the center for disease control. 
  • Fumonisins disrupt sphingolipid metabolism, folate transport, and neural tube development in embryo culture and in vivo: a potential risk factor for human neural tube defects among populations consuming fumonisin-contaminated maize. 
  • Hair Mercury Level is Associated with Anemia and Micronutrient Status in Children Living Near Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 
  • High lead exposures resulting from pottery production in a village in Michoacán State, Mexico. 
  • Impact of dust from multiple microenvironments and diet on PentaBDE body burden. 
  • Increases in serum sphingosine and sphinganine and decreases in complex sphingolipids in ponies given feed containing fumonisins, mycotoxins produced by Fusarium moniliforme. 
  • Low-level mercury, omega-3 index and neurobehavioral outcomes in an adult US coastal population. 
  • Market basket survey for some heavy metals in Egyptian fruits and vegetables. 
  • Mercury hair levels and factors that influence exposure for residents of Huancavelica, Peru. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • Population-based dietary exposure to mercury through fish consumption in the Southern Peruvian Amazon. 
  • Scombroid fish poisoning. Outbreak traced to commercially canned tuna fish. 
  • Serum perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) and associations with behavioral attributes. 
  • Sphingolipids as biomarkers of fumonisin exposure and risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in china. 
  • Sphingolipids--the enigmatic lipid class: biochemistry, physiology, and pathophysiology. 
  • Surveillance of foodborne disease in the United States, 1971-1972. 
  • Temporal Variation and Association of Aflatoxin B₁ Albumin-Adduct Levels with Socio-Economic and Food Consumption Factors in HIV Positive Adults. 
  • The geography of mercury and PCBs in North Carolina's local seafood. 
  • The kinetics of urinary fumonisin B1 excretion in humans consuming maize-based diets. 
  • Type A botulism from commercially canned beef stew. 
  • Urinary fumonisin B1 and estimated fumonisin intake in women from high- and low-exposure communities in Guatemala. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute