Foodborne Listeria monocytogenes poses serious threats to public health. Fast and sensitive detection of the pathogen at point contamination is thus crucial halt spread bacteria-related diseases. Herein, we report for first time a fluorescent film sensor detect biomarker L. monocytogenes, 3-hydroxy-2-butanone. The demonstrated unprecedented sensing performance analyte with limit lower than 0.05...

Everything is changing, and changing rapidly, except how we think. What we eat brings issues of health and global environmental change to the table in ways that are urgent, global, and full of scientific uncertainty. Eating is the most intimate relationship we have with the environment, when various parts of plants and animals are integrated into our bodies. Our eating habits link human nutriti...

Prion diseases, or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), are a group of chronic, progressive, and fatal neurodegenerative disorders that affect a variety of mam‐ malian species. This chapter discusses the issues raised by two foodborne prion diseases, namely bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), particularly those related to their sprea...

The continuous outbreaks of foodborne diseases have drawn public attentions to food safety. Early screening of foodborne pathogens is crucial to prevent and control of foodborne diseases. In this study, a novel electrochemical aptasensor was developed for rapid and sensitive detection of E. coli O157:H7 using the coaxial capillary with immune magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) for specific separatio...

BACKGROUND To better understand the sources of foodborne illness, we propose a scheme for categorizing foods implicated in investigations of outbreaks of foodborne diseases. Because nearly 2000 foods have been reported as causing outbreaks in the United States, foods must be grouped for meaningful analyses. METHODS We defined a hierarchy of 17 mutually exclusive food commodities. We defined t...

The control of foodborne diseases from an animal source has become an important part of public health policy. Since the agents that cause these diseases originate in animals, Veterinary Services, as well as Public Health Services, must be involved in their control. Control programmes should be established either through cooperation between the two Services or by the consolidation of all those i...

fasciola hepatica (f. hepatica) as a foodborne trematode can occasionally cause hepatobiliary diseases. we report a 67-year-old woman who was referred to our center because of the diagnosis of cholangitis. she was a resident of mountainous area with the history of unsafe water and contaminated vegetables. endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp) was performed as a diagnostic and th...