aflatoxin m1 (afm1), a carcinogenic substance is found in milk and dairy products. the effect of season and type of dairy products on afmi level in northern iran was investigated in this study.three hundred samples (each season 75 samples) including raw and pasteurized milk, yoghurt, cheese, and cream samples were collected from three distinct milk producing farms. the samples were subjected to...

Providing sustainability of the food supply is becoming increasingly challenging in today’s rapidly changing global economic environment. Food security remains a serious problem, especially in developing countries where the challenge of the sustainable food supply is exacerbated by the rapid rise in the population, limited access to food intake, vulnerability, price volatilities, protection mea...

background & aim:   changes in lifestyle, decrease in physical exercise along with incidence of obesity, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases indicate a need for low calorie formulations. the sweetness of stevia, a natural sweetener, is estimated to be 300 times as much as that of sugar. extraction of stevia leaves is considered a promoter of calorie balance and a beneficial part of a h...

OBJECTIVES To examine the frequency and nature of non-fatal asphyxiation and foreign body ingestion injuries among children in the state of Victoria, Australia, and to identify possible areas for prevention. METHODS For children under 15 years, all Victorian public hospital admissions, July 1987 to June 1995, due to asphyxiation or 'foreign body entering through other orifice' (which includes...

Introduction The well known habit of children to place objects in mouth frequently leads to impaction of foreign body in tracheobronchial tree. It is one of the leading causes of accidental home deaths in children under 6 years. (1) The major issue involves the accurate diagnosis, speedy and safe retrieval of the foreign body. The accurate diagnosis may elude even the sophisticated physician be...

INTRODUCTION There occur in our environment today a large number of compounds which are normally regarded as foreign to the body. Many of these get into the body in various ways and therefore it is important to know how they affect our health and how the body deals with them. These chemicals may appear in the body because they have been deliberately put there as in the case of drugs, deliberate...

background: antioxidant activities of plant extracts are being studied to increase the shelf life of fish products. some plants such as urtica dioica l. (nettle) can be a good source of antioxidants. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of hydroalcoholic and water extracts of nettle leaf on the chemical properties of superchilled minced meat of the common kilka fish (clupeone...

World food trade patterns have changed in the last 40 years with the share of world trade comprised of bulk commodities falling, and the share of world food trade comprised of processed commodities rising. These changes have been driven by a combination of supply and demand forces. On the demand side, world demand for livestock products and more highly processed food products has been rising mo...

The Caribbean is a net importer of food, and with billions of dollars’ worth of food products being imported each year, territorial governments are now seeking to encourage local production of foods in an attempt to stem the loss of foreign exchange from these economies with little resilience. The Caribbean, however, lacks the comprehensive food safety system that should be a corollary to succe...