OBJECTIVES To analyse the nature and content of advertising during children's popular television viewing times with the specific aims of (i) identifying the proportion of advertising time devoted to confectionery and potentially cariogenic products (those which readily give rise to dental caries, more commonly known as tooth decay); and (ii) determining whether there is a variation in the adver...

Milk quality is usually defined in terms of mastitis. Milk with a low somatic cell count (SCC) and is visibly normal (no clots) is considered high quality. Although these measures are clearly important, the definition of high quality milk must be expanded. To ensure a continued growing demand by consumers for dairy products, milk and dairy products must also taste good. A consumer that has a ba...

How's this for a treat ? you should eat whatever you want to, just as long as it's in moderation. Eating can be for fuel, but can, and many would argue should, be for pleasure as well. Of course, sometimes you have to take the pleasure with some pain; in this case, better make it whole-wheat pain (French for bread). In addition to whole wheat and whole grain products, fresh fruits and vegetable...

Hay and pasture crops are critical to Kentucky Agriculture and to that of the entire temperate region of the US. The sale of cattle, calves and dairy products provide 29% of Kentucky's farm income compared with 23% for tobacco. Beef cowcalf enterprises comprise the majority of cattle numbers in the state, however, dairy production is also significant. A substantial horse industry also exists in...

The aim of this experiment was to study 15N and amino-nitrogen (AN) portal absorption in the growing pig after ingestion of uniformly (0.2509 APE) labelled 15N milk (M), yogurt ingested just after manufacturing (Y0), yogurt stored for 21 d at 4 degrees C (Y21) and heat-treated yogurt (HY). The highest porto-arterial differences (PAD) in 15N and AN were found in the period between 30 min and 90 ...

Bacillus licheniformis is a Gram-positive biofilm- and endospore-forming bacterium, which contaminates dairy products and can be pathogenic to humans. The draft genome sequencing for B. licheniformis strain S127 is reported here, providing genetic data relevant to the ability of this strain to sustain its survival in the dairy industry.

BACKGROUND Over the past 10 years, food safety incidents have occurred frequently in China. Food safety issues in the dairy sector have increasingly gained the attention of the Chinese government and the public. The objective of this research is to explore consumption changes of dairy products of different income groups after these dairy safety incidents. RESULTS The research indicates that c...

Following the success of the first workshop at Edinburgh the chairwomen had proposed an informal workshop on the important topic of nutrition and migration. One objective was to raise and discuss issues of concern to nutritionists who work with people facing acute food shortages. The other was to consider how best to determine the extent of, and appropriate response to, such crises. About fifty...

The distribution of log counts at a given time during the exponential growth phase of Listeria innocua measured in food samples inoculated with one cell each was applied to estimate the distribution of the single-cell lag times. Three replicate experiments in broth showed that the distribution of the log counts is a linear mapping of the distribution of the detection times measured by optical d...

Mountain livestock systems, and particularly those based on breeding small ruminants, traditionally constituted a mainstay element of the local economy in Southeastern Spain's mountainous areas. With the rural exodus, which began in the early sixties, these systems were in critical danger of disappearing, due to, among other causes, the scarcity of shepherds and goatherds, the breakdown of an e...