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foods --- Bacillus cereus --- Listeria monocytogenes --- foodborne diseases --- Bacteriocins --- Lactococcus --- essential oils --- Food additives --- Thymol --- Carvone --- Carvacrol --- Cymene

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This book focuses on the effect of natural substances, bioactive compounds and bacteriocins on rabbit production and reproduction, performance, gastrointestinal microbiota, health parameters, and metabolic processes in rabbits. Obtained information may help in the utilization of natural additives in human and veterinary healthcare without negative impact on environment and animal welfare. Finally, special attention is given to urgent need for more studies to understand the metabolic processes of natural compounds on a molecular level, to establish the beneficial dose.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Animals & society --- receptivity --- fertility --- estrogen --- LH --- milk production --- rabbit --- thymol --- absorption --- distribution --- accumulation --- excretion --- Goji fruit --- intestinal bacterial community --- caecum --- lactic acid --- ammonium --- rabbit meat quality --- rosemary essential oil --- ginger essential oil --- growth performance --- lipid profile --- antioxidant balance --- ethyl esters --- linseed oil --- fatty acids --- hair coat --- enterocin --- health --- immunity --- microbiota --- prevention --- agave --- intestinal mucosa --- natural products --- biological activity --- human --- animal --- n/a

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Rabbit breeding, although being a small sector of animal husbandry, is widespread in many areas of the world, as the rabbit is intended both for food (meat) and not food (fur) purposes. The rabbit production chain has to face various problems, mainly concerning animal health and product quality. To overcome these issues, studies using a multidisciplinary approach addressing aspects of the rabbit nutrition and feeding, with a direct impact on the rabbit farming, welfare, health, and meat quality are particularly appreciated and requested by the scientific community. This book is composed of four original papers and one review focused on different nutritional approaches. In particular a phyto-additive (thyme essential oil) and a rabbit-derived bacteriocin-producing strain (Enterococcus faecium CCM7420) with probiotic properties were investigated as new feed additives, while two types of insect fats were studied, in order to understand their effects as dietary replacements for soybean oil and their in vitro antimicrobial activities as alternative raw materials. Results collected in this book will be of particular interest for farmers and animal nutritionists working in the rabbit breeding sector

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Animals & society --- digestibility --- enzyme activity --- gut histology --- milk replacer --- rabbit --- Enterococcus faecium --- enterocin --- microbiota --- intestinal morphology --- phagocytic activity --- serum biochemistry --- meat quality --- weight gain --- thymol --- bioavailability --- antioxidant --- insect fat --- Hermetia illucens --- Tenebrio molitor --- gut microbiota --- antimicrobial effect --- rabbit feeding --- insoluble fibre --- soluble fibre --- feed efficiency --- whole body and carcass chemical composition --- energy nitrogen and mineral balance --- fibre digestibility --- mucosa morphology --- energy nitrogen and mineral retention efficiency

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A full awareness of the role played by a healthy diet, as part of a healthy lifestyle, in countering or slowing-down chronic and degenerative diseases has strongly increased the interest in food bioactives and the return of ancient foods that are nowadays considered functional. In fact, these dietary substances, to which nutraceutical attributes are increasingly entrusted, could display disease-preventing effects on animals and humans. In this context, polyphenols, which are widespread and mostly copious in dietary plant sources, have gained a lot of attention thanks to their potential ability to halt or reverse oxidative stress-related diseases. Indeed, food could contain, beyond health-promoting compounds, toxicants which are naturally occurring or process-induced dietary compounds with adverse effects on human health. The presence and abundance of bioactives are strictly related to their food source. Edible plant components largely contain beneficial secondary metabolites, but understanding them fully is still an important challenge as complex biotic and abiotic interactions are involved in their biosynthesis. Analytical methods, which are increasingly powerful, could enhance our knowledge of food bioactives, whereas the deep investigation of their bioactivity and bioavailability could make them particularly useful.

Medicine --- Urtica dioica --- natural products bioactivity --- food bioactives --- nutraceuticals --- cancer therapy --- breast cancer --- Aloe vera --- Aloe vera polysaccharides --- in vitro fermentation --- SCFAs --- antioxidant capacity --- food waste recovery --- grape leaves --- UHPLC-HR-MS/MS analysis --- flavonol glycuronides recovery --- linoleic acid peroxidation products --- hexane --- gastric cells --- metabolomics --- cDNA microarray --- avocado --- LC/MS --- fat-soluble vitamins --- carotenoids --- Cannabis sativa L. --- phenylamides --- lignanamides --- hemp seeds --- high resolution tandem mass spectrometry --- U-87 glioblastoma cells --- cytotoxicity --- Pistacia vera --- antioxidant --- quality --- tocopherol --- FTIR --- discriminant analysis --- pistacia (Pistacia vera) hulls --- anticancer --- bacterial resistance --- efflux pumps --- terpenoids --- thymol --- carvacrol --- Rosmarinus officinalis L. --- fresh young shoots tincture --- polyphenols --- terpenes --- hepatoprotective --- n/a

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Foodborne pathogens represent a major burden on society as they are the cause of high numbers of illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths each year. In addition to their detrimental impact on human health, these microorganisms, which include pathogenic bacteria, viruses, fungi, and a range of parasites, also represent a significant economic cost to food companies in the implementation and constant oversight of food hygiene and safety programs, product recalls, and potential litigation if outbreaks occur. Advancing our current knowledge of the food processing chain and its vulnerabilities to the many factors related to foodborne pathogens (e.g., their stress response, survival and persistence in processing environments, acquisition of virulence factors and antimicrobial drug resistance) is paramount to the development of effective strategies for early detection and control of pathogens, thereby improving food safety.This Special Issue compiled original research articles contributing to a better understanding of the impact of all aspects of foodborne pathogens on food safety.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Microbiology (non-medical) --- Listeria monocytogenes --- growth potential --- ready-to-eat --- iceberg lettuce --- rocket --- spinach --- rucola --- arugula --- antimicrobial blue light --- pathogenic bacteria --- food-borne bacteria --- endogenous photosensitizers --- porphyrins --- food safety --- food handling --- food hygiene --- Salmonella --- Salmonellosis --- foodborne illness --- whole papaya --- Salmonella Typhimurium --- survival --- aqueous chlorine dioxide --- malic acid --- shelf-life --- Listeria spp. --- prevalence --- detection --- monitoring --- smear --- benzalkonium chloride --- thymol --- ampicillin --- sublethal antimicrobial exposure --- gene expression --- stress response --- virulence --- foodborne pathogen --- salmonellosis --- chicken --- antibiotic resistance --- microbial contamination --- multidrug-resistant bacteria --- milk alternatives --- Salmonella Enteritidis --- egg white --- AcrD --- stress resistance --- cell invasion --- pathogenic mechanism --- foodborne bacteria --- in vitro cell models --- organoids --- enteroids --- Bacillus cereus group --- chromogenic media --- performance testing --- toxin gene profiling --- panC sequencing --- food-borne salmonellosis --- multi-drug resistance --- invasion genes bacterial virulence --- poultry bio-mapping --- chemical interventions --- Salmonella enumeration --- Campylobacter enumeration --- bacteriophage --- endolysin --- amidase --- bionanoparticles --- BNPs --- enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli --- yogurt --- quantitative microbial risk assessment