Food of Oceanic Animals

GM Food Animals Coming

Heritable vs non-heritable modifications The Codex Alimentarius Commission of the United Nations is preparing guidelines for safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA animals [1], which is a sure sign that GM animal food is coming to our table. Codex distinguishes between heritable and non-heritable genetic modification of food animals. Heritable genetic modification involves gene...

In Production of Food Animals

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Dispersal of Plants and Animals to Oceanic Islands

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view.

Of all the components of biogeochemical cycles, few attract more attention than the waste product of oxygenic photosynthesis. Chemically unstable and biosynthetically dangerous, diatomic oxygen is the key ingredient in aerobic metabolism, and a prerequisite for the evolution of large complex organisms that define the modern biosphere. Exactly how much they require is only loosely constrained, b...

Drug residues in food animals.

A total of 292 field investigative reports of drug residues in food animals for 1983 to 1988 were analyzed. The investigations had been conducted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Virginia State Veterinarian's Office, in cooperation with the Center for Veterinary Medicine of the FDA, to trace residues reported by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service to the source of the a...