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The STARTEC decision support tool for better tradeoffs between food safety, quality, nutrition, and costs in production of advanced ready-to-eat foods (2017)
Journal Article
Skjerdal, T., Gefferth, A., Spajic, M., Estanga, E. G., de Cecare, A., Vitali, S., …Halbert, C. (2017). The STARTEC decision support tool for better tradeoffs between food safety, quality, nutrition, and costs in production of advanced ready-to-eat foods. BioMed Research International, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/6353510

A prototype decision support IT-tool for the food industry was developed in the STARTEC project. Typical processes and decision steps were mapped using real life production scenarios of participating food companies manufacturing complex ready-to-eat... Read More about The STARTEC decision support tool for better tradeoffs between food safety, quality, nutrition, and costs in production of advanced ready-to-eat foods.

The in vitro and ex vivo effect of Auranta 3001 in preventing Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum infection (2017)
Journal Article
Ch Stratakos, A., Sima, F., Ward, P., Linton, M., Kelly, C., Pinkerton, L., …Corcionivoschi, N. (2017). The in vitro and ex vivo effect of Auranta 3001 in preventing Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum infection. Gut Pathogens, 9(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13099-017-0192-y

Background: Cryptosporidium is a major cause of diarrhea worldwide in both humans and farm animals with no completely effective treatment available at present. In this study, we assessed the inhibitory effect of different concentrations of Auranta 30... Read More about The in vitro and ex vivo effect of Auranta 3001 in preventing Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum infection.

The in vitro effect of carvacrol, a food additive, on the pathogenicity of O157 and non-O157 Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (2017)
Journal Article
Stratakos, A. C., Sima, F., Ward, P., Linton, M., Kelly, C., Pinkerton, L., …Corcionivoschi, N. (2018). The in vitro effect of carvacrol, a food additive, on the pathogenicity of O157 and non-O157 Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli. Food Control, 84, 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2017.08.014

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are important pathogens implicated in foodborne outbreaks and severe human infections. E. coli O157:H7 is the most common strain amongst STECs however non-O157 STECs have been connecte... Read More about The in vitro effect of carvacrol, a food additive, on the pathogenicity of O157 and non-O157 Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli.