Botulism is a severe neuroparalytic disease caused by Clostridium botulinum toxins. Although the disease is uncommon it is a cause of great concern due to its high rate of mortality. Food-borne outbreaks of botulism occur worldwide and require immediate public health attention and acute care resources. Analysis of outbreaks showed that the food products most often involved were fermented fish p...

Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in numerous industrial and consumer product applications resulting in ubiquitous exposure. Children’s exposure is of particular concern because of evidence of developmental effects. Childhood exposure is estimated for different age groups in two ways. The ―forward‖ approach uses information on BPA concentrations in food and other environmental media (air, water, etc.) ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of increasing heat treatment on the protein quality of a canned cat food. A standard recipe cat food was canned and heat-treated for different times in a standard laboratory autoclave to obtain experimental diets containing different lethality values. Estimates of the lethality value of the different diets were calculated using the temper...

We processed applesauce, tomato juice, and cranberries in pint jars in a boiling water canner to test thermal processing theories against home canning of high-acid foods. For each product, thermocouples were placed at various heights in the jar. Values for f h (heating), f cl (cooling), and F 82.2°C (lethality) were determined for each thermocouple location, and did not depend substantially on ...

Mercury (Hg) is mainly incorporated into humans through the consumption of contaminated foods. was measured and methyl-Hg (MeHg) concentration estimated in canned mollusks sold northwestern Mexico to assess health risk consumers. Five mollusk types were considered: oysters, clams, octopuses, mussels, squids. The Hg mussels significantly (P < 0.05) lower than those other bivalves (oysters cla...

Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. Gluten is the protein component in wheat, rye and barley. Recent advances have increased our understanding of the molecular basis for this disorder. In the last 10 years, cutting edge scientific developments in this disease have led to the formulation of new concept...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative ability of principal components analysis (PCA)-derived dietary patterns to correctly identify cases and controls compared with other methods of characterising food intake. SUBJECTS Participants in this study were 232 endometrial cancer cases and 639 controls from the Western New York Diet Study, 1986-1991, frequency-matched to cases on age and county of reside...

Introduction: Exposure to mercury (Hg) by consumption of fish is a recent health concern. So, it is important to evaluate the health risks related to canned fish consumption. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential health risk based on Hg concentration in people who consumed canned fish with a probabilistic approach in Isfahan City, the central province in Iran. Materials an...