Food Safety Management: A Major Required Action for Tunisian Olive Oil Products

Virgin olive oil: a key food for cardiovascular risk protection.

Olive oil is considered to be one of the most healthy dietary fats. However, several types of olive oils are present in the market. A key question for the consumer is: What of the olive oils is the best when concerning nutritional purposes? With the data available at present, the answer is: the Virgin Olive Oil (VOO), rich in phenolic compounds. On November 2011, the European Food Safety Author...

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The humerus is often used to assess skeletal health in laying hens. It usually contains an airsac in the central cavity, but studies have demonstrated that the humeri of some hens do contain medullary bone. This study used radiographs to compare the incidence of increased radiodensity in the central cavity of humeri between lines of highproducing non-commercial laying hens. Hens of six lines (n...

Meat Products Manufactured with Olive Oil

Consumer perception of processed meat products is a critical issue for the meat industry. In recent years consumers are increasingly conscious about healthy diet. However, most of the processed meat products contain high amounts of fat, which are related to chronic diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular heart diseases. Health organizations have suggested to reduce the intake of total dieta...

Olive Mill By-Products Management

Tunisian Extra Virgin Olive Oil Traceability in the EEC Market: Tunisian/Italian (Coratina) EVOOs Blend as a Case Study

In order to check the reliability of an NMR-based metabolomic approach to evaluating blend composition (and declaration), a series of 81 Italian/Tunisian blends samples at different percentage composition (from 10/90 to 90/10% Coratina/Tunisian oil by 10% increase step) were prepared starting from five Coratina (Apulia) and five Tunisian extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) batches. Moreover, a series...

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were supplemented with 40 ppm T4 for 10 days. Of the 3 treatment groups, 1 was maintained under a 14-h light schedule and fed breeders’ diet while the 2 others were subjected to a drop in photoperiod to 6 h during or after supplementation, and were then fed a maintenance diet. Egg production, feed intake, body weight, molt and plasma levels of T4 were measured. All treated hens ceased laying wi...