There have been several outbreaks of food poisoning linked to the consumption of raw sprouts. The two most common pathogens associated with sprout consumption are Salmonella spp and verocyto-toxin producing Escherichia coli. During sprouting the warm, humid and nutrient rich conditions are ideal for bacterial growth. Pathogenic bacteria can infect seeds at very low numbers only to grow to dange...

Hydroxyapatite (HA) can be coated on various materials surface and has the function of osteogenicity. Microporous silk scaffold has excellent biocompatibility. In this study, alternate soaking technology was used to coat HA on microporous silk scaffolds. However, the cell proliferation was found to decrease with the increasing thickness (cycles of soaking) of HA-coating. This study aims to dete...

The soaking kinetics, physical, functional and Pasting characteristics of Pearl millet treated under different (NaOH-0.1%, NaHCO3-0.5%, MgCl2-0.5%, Control-Distilled water) chemical stresses during soaking were studied. Peleg’s constants (K1 & K2) were used to study the effect of soaking under different chemicals on kinetics of soaking. The variation in values of Peleg’s constant shows that K1 ...

Cooked grains of ae rice cultivars are too hard and non-sticky due to the presence of long-chain amylopectin, and ae rice cultivars are therefore called ``super-hard rice'' and cannot be used as table rice. However, they are promising in terms of their bio-functionality such as preventing diabetes. Miso (soybean paste) is a yeast-fermented food, made from steamed soybeans, salt, and inoculated ...

316L stainless steel is the most commonly used metallic material in the manufacture of orthopedic implants. To achive better properties metal implants often coated with biocomposites. A sol–gel method was used for coating of Poly lactic acid (PLA)/Hydroxyapatite nanopowder (nHA) on stainless steel 316L substrate. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) wer...

The utilization of carburizing materials in engineering fields has undergone so many tremendous changes in engineering fields. Gas carburizing is one of the surface engineering techniques widely used in the process of heat treatment in all the engineering industries. Carburizing is a complex process; it involves a number of variables for the success of the carburizing process. Effective quality...

In this article 5-25 V% of a sol-gel bioglass fiber was incorporated into calcium phosphate bone cement to improve its mechanical properties. Compressive strength, work of fracture, elastic modulus and setting time of the cement were investigated as well as phase changes occurring during soaking the specimens in simulated body fluid (SBF). The cement microstructure was also observed by scanning...