Levels of Alternaria Toxins in Selected Food Commodities Including Green Coffee

Analysis of agricultural commodities and foods for Alternaria mycotoxins.

Fungi of the genus Alternaria are parasitic on plants and other organic materials. A. alternata is a frequently occurring species of particular interest because it produces a number of mycotoxins, including alternariol (AOH), alternariol monomethyl ether (AME), altenuene (ALT), altertoxins I, II, and III (ATX-I, -II, and -III), and L-tenuazonic acid (TeA). Cleanup procedures of analytical metho...

Green coffee represents the fundamental branch point in the coffee food system between the farm and the consumer

Green coffee represents the fundamental branch point in the coffee food system between the farm and the consumer. All processing methods eventually produce green coffee, and green coffee provides the principal input for all saleable ‘valueadded’ products whether whole roasted beans or soluble coffee sachets mixed with milk powder and sugar. This is the form in which international trade and pric...

Do coffee roasters benefit from high prices of green coffee?

The German coffee industry has repeatedly made the puzzling statement that it would prefer higher prices of green coffee, its main input. Likewise, it supported the maintenance of the coffee tax. In this paper, an oligopoly model with differentiated products is used to illustrate the possibility of profit-raising cost-increases. The relationship between prices and costs of roasted coffee in Ger...

: the effect of sericin levels (silk glue protein) on rate of in vitro maturation, fertilization and culture of sheep oocytes

هدف از آزمایش اول بررسی اثر سطوح مختلف سریسین [0 (control), 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5 %] افزوده شده به محیط , ivm بر cumulus cell expansion، بلوغ هسته و توسعه متوالی جنین، در گوسفندان نژاد سنجابی در فصل تولید مثلی می باشد. از سرگیری میوز به وسیله خارج شدن اولین پولار بادی اندازه گیری و هم چنین درصد رسیدن جنین های دو سلولی به مرحله کلیواژ و بلاستوسیت نیز به عنوان نشانه ای از میزان شایستگی توسعه اولیه ج...

Natural Toxins in Food Plants