Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes

ABSTRACT Microorganisms and their communities on foods are important determinants and indicators of food safety and quality. Despite growing interests in studying food and food-related microbiomes, how effective and practical it is to glean various food safety and quality information from food commo...

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Autores principales: Shaoting Li, David Ames Mann, Shaokang Zhang, Yan Qi, Richard J. Meinersmann, Xiangyu Deng
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b55408d4dfba405ba09d2461f90181f12021-12-02T19:46:19ZMicrobiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes10.1128/mSystems.00589-202379-5077https://doaj.org/article/b55408d4dfba405ba09d2461f90181f12020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00589-20https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5077ABSTRACT Microorganisms and their communities on foods are important determinants and indicators of food safety and quality. Despite growing interests in studying food and food-related microbiomes, how effective and practical it is to glean various food safety and quality information from food commodity microbiomes remains underinvestigated. Microbiomes of retail chicken breast from 4 processing establishments in 3 major U.S. broiler production states displayed longitudinal consistency over 7 months and cross-sectional distinctiveness associated with individual processing environments. Packaging type and processing environment but not antibiotic usage and seasonality affected composition and diversity of the microbiomes. Low abundances of antimicrobial resistance genes were found on chicken breasts, and no significant resistome difference was observed between antibiotic-free and conventional products. Benchmarked by culture enrichment, shotgun metagenomics sequencing delivered sensitive and specific detection of Salmonella enterica from chicken breasts. IMPORTANCE Chicken has recently overtaken beef as the most-consumed meat in the United States. The growing popularity of chicken is accompanied by frequent occurrences of foodborne pathogens and increasing concerns over antibiotic usage. Our study represents a proof-of-concept investigation into the possibility and practicality of leveraging microbiome-informed food safety and quality. Through a longitudinal and cross-sectional survey, we established the chicken microbiome as a robust and multifaceted food microbiology attribute that could provide a variety of safety and quality information and retain systematic signals characteristic of overall processing environments.Shaoting LiDavid Ames MannShaokang ZhangYan QiRichard J. MeinersmannXiangyu DengAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticlechickenmicrobiomeshotgun metagenomicsantimicrobial resistanceSalmonellaMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSystems, Vol 5, Iss 5 (2020)
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collection DOAJ
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topic chicken
microbiome
shotgun metagenomics
antimicrobial resistance
Salmonella
Microbiology
QR1-502
spellingShingle chicken
microbiome
shotgun metagenomics
antimicrobial resistance
Salmonella
Microbiology
QR1-502
Shaoting Li
David Ames Mann
Shaokang Zhang
Yan Qi
Richard J. Meinersmann
Xiangyu Deng
Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes
description ABSTRACT Microorganisms and their communities on foods are important determinants and indicators of food safety and quality. Despite growing interests in studying food and food-related microbiomes, how effective and practical it is to glean various food safety and quality information from food commodity microbiomes remains underinvestigated. Microbiomes of retail chicken breast from 4 processing establishments in 3 major U.S. broiler production states displayed longitudinal consistency over 7 months and cross-sectional distinctiveness associated with individual processing environments. Packaging type and processing environment but not antibiotic usage and seasonality affected composition and diversity of the microbiomes. Low abundances of antimicrobial resistance genes were found on chicken breasts, and no significant resistome difference was observed between antibiotic-free and conventional products. Benchmarked by culture enrichment, shotgun metagenomics sequencing delivered sensitive and specific detection of Salmonella enterica from chicken breasts. IMPORTANCE Chicken has recently overtaken beef as the most-consumed meat in the United States. The growing popularity of chicken is accompanied by frequent occurrences of foodborne pathogens and increasing concerns over antibiotic usage. Our study represents a proof-of-concept investigation into the possibility and practicality of leveraging microbiome-informed food safety and quality. Through a longitudinal and cross-sectional survey, we established the chicken microbiome as a robust and multifaceted food microbiology attribute that could provide a variety of safety and quality information and retain systematic signals characteristic of overall processing environments.
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author Shaoting Li
David Ames Mann
Shaokang Zhang
Yan Qi
Richard J. Meinersmann
Xiangyu Deng
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David Ames Mann
Shaokang Zhang
Yan Qi
Richard J. Meinersmann
Xiangyu Deng
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title Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes
title_short Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes
title_full Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes
title_fullStr Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes
title_full_unstemmed Microbiome-Informed Food Safety and Quality: Longitudinal Consistency and Cross-Sectional Distinctiveness of Retail Chicken Breast Microbiomes
title_sort microbiome-informed food safety and quality: longitudinal consistency and cross-sectional distinctiveness of retail chicken breast microbiomes
publisher American Society for Microbiology
publishDate 2020
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