Foodborne illnesses occur in both industrialized and developing countries, and may be increasing due to rapidly evolving food production practices. Yet some primary tools used to assess food safety are decades, if not centuries, old. To improve the time to result for food safety assessment a sensitive flow cytometer based system to detect microbial contamination was developed. By eliminating ba...

blrds, and likewise the Polychsetes, or bristle^orms, which live in the sand or slime on the bed of the sea or tidal rivers, provide food for vast numbers of fish, these worms indeed being s?nietimes used as baits by fishermen. And j^ore directly than this, man sometimes uses hese creatures for food; Professor Percy Moore Pennsylvania University has informed us hat he has seen Italians engaged ...

mucosal surfaces of the body provide a universal entry portal for all known and emerging infectious pathogenic microbes. therefore, it seems that special vaccination strategies are needed for vaccines that can hinder the entry capability of pathogenic microbes through the mucosal surfaces. lactic acid bacteria are widely used in the food industry and are presently applied as delivery vehicles i...

Food-borne diseases constitute a major public health problem. Due to increased morbidity and mortality leading to time loss in the work place and reduced productivity, food-borne diseases across the world cost billions of dollars annually1. The Clostridium group of bacteria is commonly found in soil everywhere in the world, and some of its species live harmlessly in our intestines. Clostridium ...

Low-income households may face higher food prices for three reasons: (1) on average, low-income households may spend less in supermarkets—which typically offer the lowest prices and greatest range of brands, package sizes, and quality choices; (2) low-income households are less likely to live in suburban locations where food prices are typically lower; and (3) supermarkets in low-income neighbo...

Almond powder of Irvingia smithii has been incorporated, at the doses 25 and 50 %, in mice standard ration (prepared by Matadi mill), INRB, composed wheat flour, bran pellets for rabbits to evaluate weight gain, live gain feed conversion assess motor activity after days feeding. Results showed an average increase 31.08% 8.36% groups fed food supplemented with almond respectively 25% 50% higher ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate factors (ability, motivation and the environment) that act as barriers to limiting fast-food consumption in women who live in an environment that is supportive of poor eating habits. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using self-reports of individual-level data and objectively measured environmental data. Multilevel logistic regression was used to assess factors associated ...

background; various industries produce and discharge wastes containing different heavy metals into the environment. apart from using living biomass, dead and dried biomasses have been introduced as a new field of biotreatment technology. method; the cadmium (cd) (ii) removal characteristics of live (growing), dead (autoclaved), and oven-dried biomasses of aspergillus versicolor were examined as...

BACKGROUND Hyperphosphoremia is one of the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, and also, for the general population. Excessive dietary intake of phosphate (P) is one of the key factors. In particular, P in its inorganic form, which is contained in food additives, is more readily absorbed. Unfortunately, these food additives are most...

In recent years we have witnessed an increasing interest in food processing and eating behaviors. This is probably due to several reasons. The biological relevance of food choices, the complexity of the food-rich environment in which we presently live (making food-intake regulation difficult), and the increasing health care cost due to illness associated with food (food hazards, food contaminat...