Customer attitudes and behaviours have moved towards health foods because they have more concerns on increasing environmental stresses such as pollution and toxic substances in the environment. Environmental pollutants and lifestyle factors induce oxidative stress leading to many long term health complications in human such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. WHO recommends a reduct...

The term “value chain” describes the collection of activities that are performed to design, produce, market, deliver and support a product. The Australian sugar industry value chain has a number of distinct stages involved in the transformation of the cane crop into raw and refined sugar and other manufactured products. These stages include production, processing and distribution functions. Des...

Sugar contamination of boiler feedwater by smallcontinuous traces is not as serious as that from large 'slugs' which frequently find their way into the boilers. Reference is made to several incidents of sugar contamination in boilers to showthat the most commoncauses are a malfunction of the feedwater system or its mismanagement, and to show that the method of sugar detection is seldom at fault...

Sugar beet pulp is a by-product from the processing of sugar beets into sugar. Beet pulp is extracted grounded sugar beet. It is used as livestock feed and it can be fed fresh, dried and ensiled (fermented beet pulp). Sugar beet pulp is a by-product from the processing of sugar beet which is used as fodder for cattle and other livestock. It is supplied either as dried flakes or as compressed pe...

The objective of this research is to design an approach for selecting appropriate raw materials for facial tissues in Iran. There are three possibilities to maintain raw materials: (1) imported virgin pulp; (2) bagasse (sugar cane residue) plus some imported raw materials; and (3) recycled paper plus some imported raw materials. Owing to the shortage of raw materials as well as the high rate of...