The honey bee has been regarded as a key species in the environmental risk assessment of biotech crops. Here, the potential adverse effects of Cry1Ie toxin on the midgut bacteria of the worker bees (Apis mellifera ligustica) were investigated under laboratory conditions. Newly emerged bees were fed with different concentrations of Cry1Ie toxin syrups (20 ng/mL, 200 ng/mL, and 20 μg/mL), pure su...

Liquid drug preparations are the most convenient for pediatric patients. Unfortunately, these formulations very often contain ethanol, which may have an impact on children development. Moreover, medicines containing alcohol may cause undesirable interactions in conjunction with other drugs. This work reports complete validated method for the quantitation of ethanol in commercial medicated syrup...

Stickiness of sugar solutions causes problems in various food products and operations. In this study, the effects glucose syrup type (dextrose equivalent) crystalline particles on stickiness with water contents from 10 to 20% were determined. Four different corn syrups varying dextrose equivalence (DE) used determine polysaccharide distribution stickiness. The (zirconium oxide beads (Zr2O3), fo...

Stability of multivitamins containing drug products especially the syrups remains one most important factor which restrains from getting desired therapeutic effects as its ingredients decompose quickly compared to other Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), therefore, stability assessment is necessary check effect climatic conditions on syrups’ decomposition. The study aimed assess level de...

Amylases are one of the main enzymes used in industry. Such enzymes hydrolyze the starch molecules into polymers composed of glucose units. Amylases have potential application in a wide number of industrial processes such as food, fermentation and pharmaceutical industries. α-Amylases can be obtained from plants, animals and microorganisms. However, enzymes from fungal and bacterial sources hav...

The present review explains the use of natural plant products for therapeutics of diabetes. It is a serious metabolic disorder that imposes multiple effects on human health. Although diabetes is curable, an erratic lifestyle always make panic and causes disease severity if proper medication is not being made available. Several ethnomedicines have been used by local people in form of crude extra...

Honey adulteration with sugar syrups is a widespread problem. Several types of syrups have been used in honey adulteration, and there is no available method that can simultaneously detect all of these adulterants. In this study, we generated a small-scale database containing the specific chromatographic and mass spectrometry information on sugar syrup markers and developed a simple, rapid, and ...