This paper describes SimpleNLG, a realisation engine for English which aims to provide simple and robust interfaces to generate syntactic structures and linearise them. The library is also flexible in allowing the use of mixed (canned and noncanned) representations.

BACKGROUND Aflatoxins are known contaminants of foods. High dose exposure, particularly to Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) may cause acute aflatoxicosis. Outbreaks have been reported in developing nations but are virtually un-documented in the developed world. CASE REPORT A 28 year old, healthy male presented with nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. The patient deteriorated rapidly to a state of agitati...

Food technology has been instrumental in ensuring that troops remain “fit to fight”. Early food technologies produced flat bread, hard biscuits, cheese and salted meat, allowing Roman legionaries to carry rations for several days. Canning was invented in the late 18th century in response to the French Government’s offer of a substantial reward to the person whose invention would allow troops to...

Examination for CBH351 maize was conducted by the qualitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method in maize grain and maize processed foods obtained in the Tokyo area. The numbers of samples possibly positive in the screening test were 7 of 22 (31.8%) for maize grain samples, 4 of 14 (28.6%) for semi-processed foods, 11 of 30 (36.7%) for canned products, 3 of 30 (10.0%) for maize snacks, 3 of...

The food preferences of 64 cats, of which 28 were domestic pets and 36 were free-ranging animals on three farms, were tested using five food types; a sixth type was also tested on the farm cats. Information was also gathered on the background diet of the house cats (individually) and of each farm cat colony. Consistent differences were found between the predefined groups of cats in their prefer...

Today, nutrient deficiency diseases in the Western world are a distant memory. A huge variety of food is available year round. For this to be possible, many of these foods are grown thousands of miles away from where we live, and processed by people we neither see nor know. Furthermore, in the United States, expenditures for food are among the lowest in the world—about 10% of average family inc...

IDDRA Ltd Analysis of the impact on ACP countries of opening up the EU import market for canned tuna 1 Abstract In mid-2003 ACP canned tuna producers lost a degree of their comparative advantage over the larger Asian producers when the EU, abiding by a WTO ruling, assigned Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia a 25,000 tonnes import quota of reduced tariff canned tuna. Protected by zero-rated...

INTRODUCTION The patient characteristics, clinical features and causative foods in 74 consecutive adult patients with immediate food hypersensitivity were studied. METHODS A retrospective review of 74 consecutive adults who presented during the study period from July 1, 1994 to April 30, 2002 was performed. RESULTS There were 35 male and 39 female patients, with a mean age of 36.3 +/- 10.9 ...

Putrefactive Anaerobe strain 3679 (PA 3679) is of interest to the food microbiologist because it has been responsible for the microbial spoilage of certain types of thermally processed foods. It is also of interest because the spores of this organism have a high degree of heat resistance and their thermal death rate is frequently used in the calculation of thermal processes for low acid canned ...

Furan is a colorless, volatile compound that is found in heat-treated foods, such as canned and jarred foods, at levels up to 100 ppb. When animals ingest high doses, furan metabolites, such as cis-2-butene-1,4-dial, cause severe hepatotoxicity and carcinogenicity. However, the levels and effects of furan on humans are not known. Therefore, we measured urinary furan in 100 healthy individuals c...