a high performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for determination of aflatoxin b1 (afb1) in foods using a monolithic column with sample clean up on an immunoaffinity column. the method was validated for analysis of afb1 in rice, bread, puffed corn snack, wheat flour and peanut samples. the average recoveries for afb1 in different foods ranged from 94.4 to 102.5% with the coeffici...

objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the otitis media with effusion (ome) groups that improved when treated with adenoidectomy and ventilation tube (vt), to the group of the recurred after surgery and detect the possible role of allergy in ome. material and methods: this study was performed on two groups. the patient group consisted of 38 patients with recurrent ome with allergy an...

Refrigerated display cases are now commonplace in food stores in order to display products in an attractive manner to the customer. An increasing variety of chilled and frozen foods has also added to the demand for more chilled display area but despite this, most modifications to the way supennarket refrigeration systems are designed has come on the high pressure side with little or no regard f...

Based on recent advancements in the behavioral priming literature, three experiments investigated how incidental exposure to fast food can induce impatient behaviors and choices outside of the eating domain. We found that even an unconscious exposure to fast-food symbols can automatically increase participants' reading speed when they are under no time pressure and that thinking about fast food...

BACKGROUND An ongoing debate in the literature is how to measure the price of food. Most analyses have not considered the value of time in measuring the price of food. Whether or not the value of time is included in measuring the price of a food may have important implications for classifying foods based on their relative cost. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to compare prices that e...

A recent outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus following consumption South Australian oysters has brought to the forefront an increasing hazard for oyster industry and consumers. pathogens have been sparsely implicated in illnesses Australia; however, rising sea temperatures varied weather conditions delivered climate change could be driving increased prevalence these ou...

Toxoplasma gondii affects a wide variety of hosts including threatened southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) which serve as sentinels for the detection of the parasite’s transmission into marine ecosystems. Toxoplasmosis is a major cause of mortality and contributor to the slow rate of population recovery for southern sea otters in California. An updated seroprevalence analysis showed tha...

Indonesia is one of the main sources sea cucumber in world with high total production for domestic consumption and export market. Sea has potential as a source traditional foods, medicine, functional food due to nutritional component cucumbers. The purpose this research was determine different characteristics obtained by chemical (ethanol extractions 20%, 25%, 30%) physical treatment (boiling s...

biotechnology is providing us with a wide range of options for how we can use agricultural and commercial forestry lands. the cultivation of genetically modified (gm) crops on millions of hectares of lands and their injection into our food chain is a huge global genetic experiment involving all living beings. considering the fast pace of new advances in production of genetically modified crops,...

Although marine resources are known to have been exploited by both foragers and early farmers in Scotland, the importance of seafood diets Neolithic groups has widely debated. Here we present paired stable isotope (δ13C δ15N) radiocarbon measurements on Early human remains from Raschoille Cave Oban. These compared with published data for other sites western Scotland used re-evaluate use first f...