OBJECTIVE Traditional Inuit dietary patterns have been found to be beneficial for CVD but have not been investigated in relation to glucose intolerance. We examined the association between dietary patterns and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG). DESIGN Cross-sectional design with a priori derived dietary patterns from an FFQ re...

Advances in next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have enabled population-level studies for many animals to unravel the relationships between genotypic differences and traits of specific populations. The objective of this study was to perform evolutionary analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in genes of Korean native cattle Hanwoo in comparison to SNP data from four other c...

This analysis of global veterinary personnel was based on the available quantitative data reported by individual countries to international organisations. The analysis begins with a time series of globally reported numbers of veterinarians, starting in the year 1959 (140,391). In 2000 this number reached 691,379. Of this total, 27.77% of veterinarians were working as government officials, 15.38...

fer of such strains from animal to meat products, e.g. during slaughtering. The characterization and comparison of plasmids in this study support the theory of epidemic spread of plasmids being the primary mechanism for dissemination of b-lactamase genes and the existence of a gene reservoir in food products, especially imported food products, that potentially can be transferred via the food ch...

Due to the economic growth achieved by China over the past 20 years, Chinese consumers have changed their purchasing behavior regarding meat. Instead of buying locally produced pork, they are increasingly willing to purchase imported pork. A conjoint analysis investigated how intrinsic pork attributes (fat content and processing) and extrinsic pork attributes (origin, price, and packaging) rela...

Grass feeding has been reported to affect several meat quality characteristics, in particular colour and flavour. In this paper we have reviewed some differences in meat colour and flavour between ruminants fed concentrates and animals allowed to graze pasture. The possible factors influencing the differences have been also examined. We have examined a total of 35 experiments which report the e...

After years or detailed study and analysis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine (pigs), and goats, and non-cloned offspring is as safe to eat as the food from conventionally bred animals. Researchers have been cloning livestock since 1996 to help improve the quality of herd and the meat and milk from these animals has now bee...

In France, some cases of severe toxoplasmosis have been linked to the consumption of horse meat that had been imported from the American continent where atypical strains of Toxoplasma gondii are more common than in Europe. Many seroprevalence studies are presented in the literature but risk assessment of T. gondii infection after horse meat consumption is not possible in the absence of validate...

the study investigates factors that affect members' satisfaction of mashhad cattle husbandry cooperatives. the required data and information were collected via interviews and questionnaires from cattlemen. cattlemen of mashhad constitute the statistical population of the study. using cochran formula, 60 cattlemen were selected randomly as the sample in 2013. spss software package was used to an...

Executive Summary Traceability of cattle through live animal production, meat processing, and product distribution stages may be important for providing information on food safety or prohibited substance concerns, country of origin labeling for beef, and improvements in genetic and environmental practices to improve economic efficiencies and product traits. This study used cattle from commercia...