The article identifies the main trends characteristic of modern confectionery market Ukraine. reasons for slowdown in production growth, gradual increase prices all types confectionery, changes structure demand products are considered. Exports require Ukrainian producers to expand their own range, as well bring quality European standards. recent trend characterizes domestic complex (combined) s...

Regulatory agencies have enforced allergen labelling rules for food ingredients on pre-packed food. HACCP procedures driven on by food manufacturers reveals that possible cross-contaminations of their products cannot be absolutely discarded or checked. As a result and because allergen absence cannot be accurately warranted in most food industry, numerous warning mentions on pre-packed foods app...

The mold flora of certain frozen pastries and chicken pies was investigated. Molds were determined qualitatively or quantitatively, or both, by preparing pour plates of the blended product and incubating the plates at various temperatures. The mesophilic fungal flora developed on plates incubated at 10 and 20 C, whereas psychrophilic fungi were obtained on plates incubated at 0 and 5 C. About 2...

A distributed hash table (DHT) is a peer-to-peer network that o↵ers the function of a classic hash table, but where di↵erent key-value pairs are stored at di↵erent nodes on the network. Like a classic hash table, the main function provided by a DHT is key lookup, which retrieves the value stored at a given key. Examples of DHT protocols include Chord, Pastry, Kademlia and Tapestry. Such DHT pro...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Shimo-Okamoto 2145-13, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 329-1196, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] In December 2007, there was an outbreak of food poisoning caused by Norovirus (NV) in schools in northern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. On December 28, 2007, a local health and welfare center received a report that ...