A5037409209- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Halal products and consumer behavior
- Leptospirosis research and findings
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
University of Pisa
2016-2025
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana
2024
Fondazione Stella Maris
2009
University of Bologna
1984
Edible insects are an alternative protein source with environmental, social and health benefits. Insect-based products (IBPs), considered as Novel Foods by the EU legislation, mainly sold on market through e-commerce. In this study, current situation of IBPs e-commerce was characterized i) identifying Food Business Operators involved in selling ii) assessing IBPs' compliance to labelling requirements. Overall, 26 platforms were identified, head offices located North Central Europe 656...
Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacterium, commonly found in the nostrils, on skin and hair of warm-blooded animals, including humans. It can produce wide variety virulence factors, staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs). In literature, 24 different SEs many variants have been identified; among these, only five (the so-called classic enterotoxins) well-defined. Due to their emetic activity, are frequently responsible for food poisoning, when consumers ingest contaminated food. proteins...
Insects intended for human consumption are considered Novel Foods according to EU legislation. marketed in form of powders, bars, snacks increasingly available on the market, especially e-commerce. The commercial and way distribution make IBPs particularly prone mislabeling. Literature concerning mislabeling occurrence is extremely scarce. In this study, 46 processed were collected nine e-commerce platforms (e-CO) be authenticated by metabarcoding. A 200 bp region from 16S rRNA gene was used...
The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies represent a turning point in the food inspection field, particularly for species identification matrices composed of blend two or more species. In this study NGS were applied by testing usefulness Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) seafood traceability. Sixteen commercial surimi samples produced both EU and non-EU countries analysed. Libraries prepared using universal primer pair able to amplify short 16SrRNA fragment from wide range...
The presented global retrospective study on human cases of tetrodotoxin (TTX) intoxication caused by seafood consumption was aimed at updating the relative risk according to product categories (fish, gastropods, cephalopods, arthropods) and geographical areas. Overall, 3032 from five continents were collected, mainly Asia. Over half them attributed fish, followed arthropods cephalopods. In South East Asia, intoxications derived all aforesaid categories, locally sourced; in Oceania,...
Ensuring the safety of insect-based products (IBPs) is essential considering their potential as food source in future. Among contaminants, heavy metals represent a concern for safety. In this study, concentrations lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and nickel (Ni) 52 IBPs marketed on European e-commerce were assessed. The analyses conducted with Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. impact consuming toxicological reference values each analyzed metal was also assessed, to characterize human...
Milk has been consumed by humans for thousands of years its nutritional properties. In recent years, raw milk demand increased, valued authenticity and connection to local traditions. Italy, the sale is allowed exclusively through direct from producing farm final consumer, either at itself or vending machines. However, consumption not without risks. Among these, microbiological ones are relevant. These can lead severe symptoms, particularly in vulnerable populations. For this reason,...
The 16S rRNA metabarcoding, based on Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), is used to assess microbial biodiversity in various matrices, including food. process involves a "dry-lab" phase where NGS data are processed through bioinformatic pipelines, which finally rely taxonomic unit assignment against reference databases assign them at order, genus, and species levels. Today, several public genomic available for the of sequences. In this study, 42 insect-based food products were chosen as models...
Background/Objectives: Shrimp surimi-based products (SSPs) are composed of minced shrimp meat and highly susceptible to food fraud as fish surimi. This study employed a double-gene metabarcoding approach authenticate SSPs sold on Chinese e-commerce platforms. Methods: 16S rRNA 12S genes were amplified sequenced from 24 SSPs. Mislabeling was evaluated based the correspondence between ingredients (only those animal origin) reported products’ labels molecular results. Results: Overall, 87.50%...