Apart from industry, traffic and private households, the agricultural sector is a considerable contributor to emissions of particulate matter (PM). Agricultural activities such as plant and animal production on both farm sites and fields cause PM emissions. Although a reduction of PM emissions is observed for Europe, an increasing proportion of primary PM10 emissions originates from agriculture...

Introduction: There are three synthetic hormones approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for growth promotion in cattle and sheep raised for meat production: the estrogenic compound zeranol, the anabolic steroid trenbolone acetate (TBA), and the progestin melengestrol acetate (MGA). The FDA approves and regulates the use of hormone implants, establishing tolerance levels (m...

Differences in risk perceptions of public health and food safety hazards in various poultry husbandry systems by various stakeholder groups, may affect the acceptability of those husbandry systems. Therefore, the objective was to gain insight into risk perceptions of citizens, poultry farmers, and poultry veterinarians regarding food safety and public health hazards in poultry husbandry systems...

Economic growth in the regions is substantially determined by development of agriculture, which ensures satisfaction population's needs for foodstuffs. Modeling animal husbandry and plant growing allows to reveal factors influencing functioning agricultural branches, including dependence territory on food export, determine their quantitative influence increase number cattle gross harvest crops,...