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Consumers worldwide are driving changes in animal agriculture. Rising consumer income, changing demographics and lifestyles, and shifting preferences due to new information about the links between diet and health all contribute to new demands for foods. At the same time, technological changes in production, processing and distribution, structural change and growth in large-scale retailing, and ...

This paper reviews and assesses some of the Productive Development Policies currently being implemented in Uruguay. We have selected three horizontal and three vertical policies and consider them in light of the market and public failures they attempt to address and minimize. Horizontal policies comprise Innovation, Industrial Promotion and Directives for Industrial and Technological Developmen...

Abstract This essay debates health inequalities by analyzing obstetric violence directed at Black women. We assume that institutional racism is an important interpretive key to understanding the dynamics of racial violence. adopted descriptive analysis two stories published on G1 website as a methodology highlight faced daily women in services. found (re)produces denial rights, non-access servi...

Packaged Facts estimates the global retail market for probiotic and prebiotic foods and beverages at approximately $15.4 billion in 2008; that total represents a 12.5% increase over estimated 2007 sales of $13.7 billion. In 2008, the growth rate for the probiotic and prebiotic food and beverage market ranged from 5% to more than 30%, depending on the region and product type. Packaged Facts anal...

Poultry sector is one of the major components of Indian animal husbandry and provides continuous and consistent income around the year to the poultry farmers. Further, animal products like meat and egg also bring foreign revenue into the country. The growing demand for acceptance in the global market for poultry products warrants ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 1 (2015) pp. 575-588 http://www.i...

Bacterial loads of Street served foods and cut fruits sold in open market was assessed. The mean viable plate count was 2.4x107/gm, highest being 7x10 /gm found in meat group foods. Eighteen percent food samples, mostly, either processed foods, carbonated drinks or foods served boiling hot were found sterile. All other foods examined yielded very high standard aerobic plate count per gram, indi...

Surveys of commercial markets combined with molecular taxonomy (i.e. molecular monitoring) provide a means to detect products from illegal, unregulated and/or unreported (IUU) exploitation, including the sale of fisheries bycatch and wild meat (bushmeat). Capture-recapture analyses of market products using DNA profiling have the potential to estimate the total number of individuals entering the...