A5077156186- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Polyamine Metabolism and Applications
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health
- Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
- Leptospirosis research and findings
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Enzyme Production and Characterization
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
University of Pisa
2015-2025
University of Basilicata
2017
This study provides a framework of the factors predicting intention eating an insect-based product. As part study, seminar was carried out to explore how provision information about ecological, health, and gastronomic aspects entomophagy would modify consumer beliefs regarding insects as food. Before after informative seminar, two questionnaires sociodemographic attributes consumption food were given. Participants then asked carry sensory evaluation identical bread samples, but one claimed...
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...
Campylobacter jejuni, a common foodborne zoonotic pathogen, causes gastroenteritis worldwide and is increasingly resistant to antibiotics. We aimed investigate the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genotypes of C. jejuni isolated from humans, poultry birds wild urban Italian habitats identify correlations between phenotypic genotypic AMR in isolates. Altogether, 644 isolates humans (51), (526) wild- urban-habitat (67) were analysed. The phenotypes determined using microdilution method with...
Brucellosis is a major public health problem still prevalent as neglected endemic zoonosis requiring proactive attention in many communities worldwide. The present study involved analysis of Brucella field strains submitted for typing to the Italian National Reference Laboratory from 2007 2015. Strains were identified at species and biovar levels by classic molecular techniques according World Organisation Animal Health Manual. In total, 5,784 typed: 3,089 abortus (53.4%), 2,497 B....
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...
Campylobacter species are common foodborne pathogens associated with cases of human gastroenteritis worldwide. A detailed understanding the prevalence, contamination levels and molecular characteristics spp. in cattle chicken, which likely most important sources contamination, is imperative. collection 1243 poultry meat samples (665 chicken breasts 578 thighs) 1203 bovine (689 hamburgers 514 knife-cut preparations) were collected at retail outlets, randomly selected supermarkets located...
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...
The capability to produce biofilm is an important persistence and dissemination mechanism of some foodborne bacteria. This paper investigates the relationship between molecular characteristics (SCCmec, ST, spa-type, agr-type, cna, sarA, icaA, icaD, clfA, fnbA, fnbB, hla, hlb) 22 food-related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains their ability form on stainless steel polystyrene. Five (22.7%, 5/22) were able synthesize polystyrene, one these (4.5%, 1/22) was also steel....
The aim of the research study was to evaluate effects a common culinary spice such as garlic powder and salt addition on quality microbial shelf life rabbit meat burgers. Rabbit burgers were evaluated for pH, colour parameters, water holding capacity loads during storage time seven days at 4 °C. Four different formulations (n = 180 in total) tested control samples (only meat, C), with (at 0.25%, G), 1.00%, S) both (0.25% respectively, GS). As results, it highlighted that significant affected...
Safety and quality of edible insects are among the primary aspects which heavily affect insect acceptance by consumers. In this study, effects different blanching treatments on microbiological profile, pH colour mealworm larvae were evaluated. The effect 10 combinations temperature (50, 60, 70, 80 90 °C) time (2.5 5 min) compared to fresh oven cooked (10 min at 150 °C). Moreover, 24 h starvation profile was Total viable aerobic count, Enterobacteriaceae, staphylococci, yeasts moulds, lactic...
The packaging system is one of the factors influencing preservation nutritional value, microbiological safety, and sensory attributes meat. study investigated changes in physicochemical properties taking place during 15-day refrigerated storage two calf muscles, longissimus lumborum (LL) semitendinosus (ST), packaged three systems, respectively, vacuum packing (VP), modified atmosphere (MAP, 80% O2 + 20% CO2), a combined (VP MAP, 8 d VP followed by 7 MAP). LL ST stored had significantly...
The aim of this work is to study the influence gender, age and hunting period on fatty acid composition longissimus dorsi muscle excised from 42 wild boars hunted a farm located in Tuscany. A sub-sample 22 muscles was used for microbiological profile boar meat. results show that gender had an effect only C16:1 n7, which higher females (p ≤ .05). Slaughtering influenced more parameters, thus resulting content C6:0, C18:2, C20:1 n6/n3 ratio meat adults .05) percentage C16:0 young animals....
Wild boar are among the most widespread wild mammals in Europe. Although this species can act as a reservoir for different pathogens, data about its role carrier of pathogenic and antimicrobial-resistant
The present study investigated the genomic constitution and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of 238 Campylobacter from pigs wild boars in Italy between 2012 2019. strains were genotyped using multilocus sequence typing (MLST) whole genome MLST (wgMLST), screened for genes, tested phenotypic susceptibility to six different antibiotics. C. coli was detected 98.31% 91.66% boars, while jejuni isolated remaining cases. assigned 73 STs 13 respectively, including 44 novel STs. predominant ST ST-854...
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...
Campylobacter spp. are among the microorganisms most commonly associated with foodborne disease. Swine known to be main reservoir of coli and a possible source infection humans as result carcass contamination at slaughter. The aim this study was evaluate prevalence C. in swine carcasses, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) patterns isolates genetic diversity between strains obtained from those isolated humans. higher on carcasses (50.4%) than faeces (32.9%). 162 were examined by pulsed-field gel...