There is clearly a significant increase in awareness of the risks from food-borne diseases among consumers in western countries in the past decade. The concern about the quality and safety of food appears to be driven by increased affluence, new scientific discoveries, by more sophisticated measurements and analyses, by new information about linkages between diet and health, by new food technol...

background and objectives: in the era of global industrialization, enzymes are being used extensively in the various sectors including food processing. owing to the high price of enzymes, various initiatives have been undertaken by the r&d; sector for the development of new processes or improvement in the existing processes for production of cost effective enzymes. with the advancement in the f...

The vertical integration of agriculturaland food-industrial processchains gains importance because of consumer-demand for high quality and nonpolluting produced food is increasing. Chain-encompassing process-organizations can contribute to an optimization of the quality characteristics of the products. In this paper a concept of an environmental-management-system in an agriculturaland food-indu...

World agriculture is at a turning point, with high demand due to economic growth accelerating food prices. In addition, energy and climate change are re-defining the equations of supply and demand. Biofuels have a high place on the global agenda, largely due to rising concerns about national energy security, higher energy prices, and increasing concerns about global climate change, as well as t...

In paper was used the panel data from Nigeria General Household Survey and commodity prices alternative sources between 2010-2016 to estimate farm households' food non-food demand in Nigeria. The bundles of all groups were necessities goods, as their budget elasticities positive also inelastic. Animal products a luxury good. There is no strong complementary substitutive relationship existing cr...

Many Asian countries are expected to undergo transformations in their economies and rapid urbanization over the next 25 years. The changes in tastes and lifestyles engendered by urban living are likely to have significant influences on food demand--influences perhaps as strong as the well-documented effects of household in comes and food prices. Changes in marketing systems and occupations, clo...

Current and potential future trends in technology, consumption and trade of food that may impact on food-borne disease are analysed and the key driving factors identified focusing on the European Union and, to a lesser extent, accounting for the United States and global issues. Understanding of factors is developed using system-based methods and their impact is discussed in relation to current ...