About the Authors

Joelle K. Salazar

Affiliation Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois Institute of Technology, Bedford Park, Illinois, United States of America

Kaiping Deng

Affiliation United States Food and Drug Administration, Bedford Park, Illinois, United States of America

Mary Lou Tortorello

Affiliation United States Food and Drug Administration, Bedford Park, Illinois, United States of America

Maria T. Brandl

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Hui Wang

Affiliation Food Safety Research Center, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Wei Zhang

zhangw@iit.edu

Affiliation Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois Institute of Technology, Bedford Park, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLT MTB WZ. Performed the experiments: JKS KD. Analyzed the data: JKS KD WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLT MTB HW. Wrote the paper: JKS KD HW WZ.