The study was designed to investigate the effect of duration of frozen storage on the proximate profile of fishes lizadussmieri, sparidae, sciaenide and platycephalidae. The fishes were subjected to sixty days of frozen storage. Protein decreases with increasing duration of frozen storage; with the fresh samples (not frozen) having the highest protein content (13.02 ± 0.09%). while the least (1...

These basic assumptions are emphasized in order to point out the importance of the receiver's active role and participation in the learning process leading towards a more knowledgeable and responsible population in health questions. Today's health programmes have generally been based on the assumption that when people are better informed greater savings of public means could be achieved. Howeve...

In the March issue of this journal there appeared under 'Medical News' (p. 148; an abstract from an article by Brinton) an account of an epidemic at Aden caused by the seed of Lolium temulentum, a weed which grows in wheat fields. The wheat was brought from Abyssinia and milled locally by machinery. The consumption of the product made the inhabitants go down with symptoms of acute intoxication....

Pimelea poisoning is an ongoing, periodically serious problem for cattle producers in inland Australia. The annual native plants of the Thymelaeaceae family that cause the problem are widespread and animal management is currently the main means of minimizing poisoning. However, there are situations in the higher rainfall parts of the natural distribution area of these plants where farming and q...

Problem from eating poisonous seafood can be seen in marine medicine[1-3]. Several marine animals can be toxic. The good examples are fishes[4], mussels[5] and shellfishes[6,7]. Horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) can be poisonous and intoxication due to intake is possible[8]. Horseshoe crab poisoning can be seen in many countries with seacoasts including China and Thailand. In animal...

During a speech to the Berlin Press Association on September 13, 1981, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig made a dramatic allegation. He accused the Soviet Union of supplying mycotoxins— poisonous compounds synthesized by fungi—to its Vietnamese and Laotian Communist allies for military use against resistance forces in Laos and Cambodia (Kampuchea), and of employing the same agents in comba...