This study investigates the concentration levels of selected priority PAHs; Phenanthrene (Phe), benzo[a] pyrene (BaP) and benzo[k] fluoranthene (BkF) in three brands of refined edible seed oils (30 samples). The samples were hydrolyzed in methanolic potassium hydroxide, and the PAH extracted in n-hexane according to standard methods. The PAH extracts were cleaned using solid phase extraction (S...

The aim of this study was to determine the chemical and microbiological analysis of soya cheese and compare with cow milk cheese and raw soya. Fat content is lower and protein content is higher in soya cheese than cow milk cheese. Moisture, ash, fat, total carbohydrate, total energy, pH, total chlorides and Total solids are significantly higher in cow milk cheese than soya cheese. Cheese yield,...

Southeast Asian women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than their counterparts in the West. Epidemiological studies have indicated that soya consumption may be a contributing factor. Carcinogenesis is a process involving multiple stages. The present review attempts to fit the cellular mechanisms attributed to soya isoflavones into these different stages. Many cell-culture studies have re...

The authors reviewed the growth-promoting and carcinogenic effects of raw soya flour in rats and found that if raw soya flour-containing diets are fed for more than one year, almost 10% of animals develop pancreatic cancer. In addition, by eating raw soya flour they markedly potentiate the action of subthreshold amounts of pancreatic carcinogens. Therefore, they consider the raw soya flour a po...

abstractbackground : the presence of primordial radionuclide in human habitats has always been a source of prolonged exposure. measurement of naturally occurring radionuclides in the environment can be used as baseline to evaluate the impact of non-nuclear activities and also routine releases from nuclear installations.   materials and methods: a total of 56 samples from 18 different foodstuff ...

1. The influence of divalent cations and pH on the polymorphic phase behaviour of aqueous dispersions of phosphatidylethanolamine-phosphatidylserine systems have been investigated employing 31P-NMR techniques. 2. Phosphatidylserines, derived from both egg and soya phosphatidylcholines, stabilize a bilayer organization at 30 degrees C in mixtures with soya phosphatidylethanolamine (which assumes...

A comparative cross platform evaluation of real-time polymerase chain reaction detection of DNA sequences present in Roundup Ready soya was undertaken using the ABI 7700 and Roche Lightcycler detection systems in combination with 3 different detection chemistries: TaqMan, Scorpion primers, and SYBR Green I fluorescent dye. Various copy numbers of a plasmid containing the soya lectin sequence we...

The effects of a dietary alpha-linolenic acid (18:3 n-3) deficiency on lipid fatty acid composition of the liver and serum of lactating rats have been studied during three gestations and over three generations. These females were compared to corresponding females which remained sterile. Two lots of female rats received, respectively, a diet containing lipids either in the form of 1.50 g of sunf...