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Enhancing the oxidative stability of flaxseed oil using food-grade O/W Pickering emulsions stabilized by antioxidant-rich cocoa byproduct particles
(Applied Food Research, 2025-05-25)Pickering emulsions with antioxidant properties are of great interest in developing encapsulation systems for compounds that are highly susceptible to oxidation. In this study, the fabrication of ... -
Epidemiology of Xylella fastidiosa in Ibiza and Formentera: A Comprehensive Study of Insect Vectors and Transmission Dynamics
(Agronomy, 2025-01-27)Xylella fastidiosa (XF) is a Gram-negative bacterium responsible for severe plant diseases affecting a wide range of host plants, some of them important crops. Since 2017, only the pauca subspecies ... -
Antimicrobial Efficacy of Nanochitosan and Chitosan Edible Coatings: Application for Enhancing the Safety of Fresh-Cut Nectarines
(Coatings, 2025-03-03)The growing demand for fresh foods, as well as the rise in ready-to-eat foods, is leading the food industry to study edible coatings to maintain the quality of fresh-cut fruit. The objective of this ... -
Transforming Hyperspectral Images Into Chemical Maps: A Novel End-to-End Deep Learning Approach
(Journal of Chemometrics, 2025-07-16)Current approaches to chemical map generation from hyperspectral images are based on models such as partial least squares (PLS) regression, generating pixel-wise predictions that do not consider spatial ... -
Quantitative characterization of high-pressure inactivation of E. coli and Salmonella in fruit purees enhanced by acid exposure and delayed sampling
(Food Research International, 2025-08-21)This study aimed to quantitatively characterize the inactivation kinetics of Escherichia coli (CECT5947 & CTC1029) and Salmonella (GN001 & CIP106188) during high-pressure processing (HPP, from 300 to ... -
Novel high-pressure thermal processing at industrial scale efficiently inactivates bacterial spores while minimises process-induced contaminants in acid and low-acid infant food
(Food Research International, 2025-08-06)High-pressure thermal processing (HPTP) takes advantage of rapid and uniform compression heating and decompression cooling. However, its industrial implementation faces scale-up and operational challenges. ... -
Comparison of Three Commercial ELISA Kits for Detection of Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 in Serum Samples from Different Animal Species
(Viruses, 2025-05-16)The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, significantly impacting global health, economies, and social stability. In February ... -
Update of the list of qualified presumption of safety (QPS) recommended microbiological agents intentionally added to food or feed as notified to EFSA 22: Suitability of taxonomic units notified to EFSA until March 2025
(EFSA Journal, 2025-07-07)The qualified presumption of safety (QPS) process was developed to assess the safety of microorganisms used in food and feed chains. During the period covered by this Statement, no new information ... -
Microbiome-based surveillance of zoonotic tick-borne pathogens from urban wild boars in Barcelona, 2022–2023
(One Health, 2025-03-28)Incursions of wild animals into urban areas amplify the potential risks of zoonotic disease transmission by increasing contact between humans and animal reservoirs. Monitoring the presence of pathogens ... -
Showcasing the potential of Pulse Spray Drying for infant foods from the food safety perspective
(Future Foods, 2025-08-13)This study evaluated Pediococcus acidilactici ATCC 8042 as a non-pathogenic surrogate for Salmonella to assess the effect of a new Pulse Spray Drying (PSD) technology in infant cereal-based food (CBF) ... -
Assessing the Potential of Fecal NIRS for External Marker and Digestibility Predictions in Broilers
(Animals, 2025-07-24)This study evaluated fecal near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) potential to predict three external markers (Yb, Ti, and polyethylene glycol (PEG)) and dry matter digestibility (DMD) calculated from ... -
Simultaneous Detection of Classical and African Swine Fever Viruses by Duplex Taqman Real-Time PCR Assay in Pigs Infected with Both Diseases
(Pathogens, 2025-05-13)The increasing spread of African swine fever (ASF) in recent years and the presence of classical swine fever (CSF) subclinical forms in endemic countries suggests that the possibility of coinfection ... -
Hyperspectral imaging and predictive microbiology for the non-invasive evaluation of the growth probability of Staphylococcus aureus in sliced dry-cured ham
(Meat Science, 2025-07-21)This work aimed to explore the potential of a non-invasive approach, consisting of the use of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) together with predictive microbiology, for dry-cured ham safety evaluation. The ... -
Organic enrichment negatively impacts meiobenthic copepods on Argentinean coasts
(Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2025-06-30)Organic enrichment is a growing threat to coastal environments, yet its effects on meiobenthic copepods in marine sediments remain poorly understood. In this large-scale observational study conducted ... -
CmFUL1 was potentially involved in fruit elongation in melon
(Horticulture Research, 2025-05-21)Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is a fruit crop in the world; fruit size and fruit shape are major traits for melon quality. Fruit length is a crucial indicator affecting fruit size and shape, but few genes ... -
Monitoring the texture of high-moisture extrudates in the cooling die of an extruder using near-infrared spectroscopy
(Journal of Food Engineering, 2025-07-24)High-moisture extrusion processing (HMEP) is used to produce high-moisture extrudates (HME) with fibrous textures that mimic animal meat. However, many factors affect the final product, and industries ... -
Fasting, crowding and temperature effects on the cardiac activity of European seabass during ice-slurry slaughtering procedure
(Aquaculture Reports, 2025-07-07)Aquaculture production continues to expand rapidly, highlighting the need to improve welfare standards during harvesting procedures. Pre-slaughter operations such as fasting and crowding, along with ... -
Fibre-like structure formation in fava bean protein based extrudates: effects of extrusion inputs and potential of outputs for process control
(Future Foods, 2025-06-25)High moisture extrusion processing (HMEP) is a complex process in which product formulation and extrusion conditions play a key role in fibre-like structure formation. The aim of this work was to study ... -
Growth performance, phytate degradation, and tibia characteristics of broiler chickens fed pelleted diets with varying feed particle sizes and phytase levels
(Journal of Applied Poultry Research, 2025-07-21)The objective was to investigate the effects of feed particle size and microbial phytase supplementation of pelleted diets on growth performance, myo-inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6) degradation, and ... -
Selected Staphylococcus spp. and ZnPP-containing liver extract are nitrite-free alternatives to enhance red colour of dry-fermented sausages
(Meat Science, 2025-07-23)As an alternative to adding pure nitrite sources to dry-fermented sausages, we examined three different strategies involving the addition of two meat-associated coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) ...