 Food Contamination
"Food Contamination" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The presence in food of harmful, unpalatable, or otherwise objectionable foreign substances, e.g. chemicals, microorganisms or diluents, before, during, or after processing or storage.
| Descriptor ID |
D005506
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| MeSH Number(s) |
J01.576.423.850.730.500.249 N06.850.460.400 N06.850.601.500.249
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| Concept/Terms |
Food Contamination- Food Contamination
- Contamination, Food
- Contaminations, Food
- Food Contaminations
Food Adulteration- Food Adulteration
- Adulteration, Food
- Adulterations, Food
- Food Adulterations
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2026 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Food Contamination" by people in Profiles.
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Weisbrod VM, McKeon MD, Stahl MG, Germone M, Nagle S, Jossen J, Lebovits J, Leonard MM, Perl J, Geller MG, Geller A, Emerson-Mason L, Pan Z, Verma R, Liu E. Shared Fryers May Not Always Be as Risky for Gluten Cross-Contact in Celiac Disease as Dietary Guidance Suggests. Nutrients. 2026 Oct 20; 18(20).
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Lucey CM, Sanchez TR, Hannoush H, Pillai AR, Bloomquist TR, Izuchukwu CN, Balac O, Ellis T, Islam T, Kupsco AJ, Glabonjat RA, van Geen A, Parvez MF, Ahsan H, Navas-Acien A, Schilling K. Variable effectiveness of raw rice, cooked rice, and water in recapitulating dietary inorganic and organic arsenic exposure in the health effects of arsenic longitudinal study. Environ Res. 2026 Dec 01; 310(Pt 1):125829.
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Lucey CM, Sanchez TR, Hannoush H, Basu A, Ziska LH, Parvez MF, Ahsan H, Schilling K. Biomonitoring of nutritional and toxic elements in raw and cooked rice in the Health Effects of Arsenic Longitudinal Study, Bangladesh. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2026 Aug; 321:120436.
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Vachon MS, Edmundson AR, White AE, Kim TN, Booth HA, Firestone MJ, Scallan Walter EJ, Hedberg CW. CDC Directed Funding Improves Foodborne Outbreak Reporting in U.S. States, 2009-2022. J Food Prot. 2025 08 22; 88(9):100581.
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Hasimuna OJ, Chibesa M, Mumbula I, Mphande J, Jere WWL, Phiri D, Nawanzi K, Siavwapa S, Maseko AF, Munganga BP, Nchima G, Khalil HS, Maulu S. Contamination of selected heavy metals in Limnothrissa miodon (Boulenger, 1906) in the four strata of Lake Kariba Zambia: are the consumers at risk? J Environ Sci Health B. 2023; 58(7):521-529.
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Belk AD, Frazier AN, Fuerniss LK, Delmore R, Belk K, Borlee B, Geornaras I, Martin JN, Metcalf JL. A Pilot Study: the Development of a Facility-Associated Microbiome and Its Association with the Presence of Listeria Spp. in One Small Meat Processing Facility. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 10 26; 10(5):e0204522.
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Camfield E, Bowman A, Choi J, Gwinn K, Labbe N, Rajan K, Ownley B, Moustaid-Moussa N, D'Souza DH. Switchgrass extractives to mitigate Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contamination of romaine lettuce at pre- and postharvest. J Food Sci. 2022 Aug; 87(8):3620-3631.
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Weber AM, Baxter BA, McClung A, Lamb MM, Becker-Dreps S, Vilchez S, Koita O, Wieringa F, Ryan EP. Arsenic speciation in rice bran: Agronomic practices, postharvest fermentation, and human health risk assessment across the lifespan. Environ Pollut. 2021 Dec 01; 290:117962.
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Igo MJ, Schaffner DW. Models for factors influencing pathogen survival in low water activity foods from literature data are highly significant but show large unexplained variance. Food Microbiol. 2021 Sep; 98:103783.
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Cantrell MS, McDougal OM. Biomedical rationale for acrylamide regulation and methods of detection. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf. 2021 03; 20(2):2176-2205.
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