Residues from Cayman farming processing are usually designated to animal feed. Due its high nutritional value, the use of those residues as restructured products in human alimentation can beneficial another source revenue alliagator farmers. In this study was evaluated composition and acceptance a smoked-breaded product (nuggets) elaborated with minced yacare meat. The submitted two smoking pro...

Background: Listeria monocytogenes is one of the most important food-borne bacteria causing septicemia, meningitis and encephalitis in humans. The objective of this study was to evaluate the occurrence and antibiotic resistance of the bacterium in retail minced beef in Ahvaz, South-West of Iran. Methods: In this survey, 150 samples of minced beef were randomly obtained from retail butcheries i...

Background & Aims of the Study: Sarcocystiosis is a zoonosis appeared in domestic animals caused by various species of Sarcocystis. This protozoan disease has worldwide distribution among human and many species of animals. Humans acquire infection by eating of raw and under cooked beef, pork or mincemeat containing schizonts of Sarcocystis hominis and S. suihominis. The aim of present study is ...

Clostridium perfringens is a serious pathogen which causes enteric diseases in domestic animals and food poisoning in humans. Spores can survive cooking processes and play an important role in the possible onset of disease. In this study, RAPD-PCR and REPPCR were used to examine the genetic diversity of 49 isolates of C. perfringens type A from three different sources. The results of RAPD-PCR r...

THE original method for preparing insulin from normal fresh pancreas, worked out by Collip [1923], depended on the extraction of the minced tissue with plain alcohol. Doisy, Somogyi and Shaffer [1923] found that they could obtain considerably larger yields of the active principle by extraction with strongly acid alcohol. The fact that insulin in acid solution is readily adsorbed by a great vari...