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Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
genome copies). Finally, a targeting of the norovirus by hybridization capture enhanced the relative quantity of reads classified as norovirus but at the expense of using a less open approach that can only ...
The cost of healthy versus current diets in the Netherlands for households with a low, middle and high education.
(2022) Abstract: The cost of food is an important driver of food choice and most evidence suggests that healthier diets are more costly than less healthy diets. However, current attempts to model the cost ...
Cyanotoxins and Food Contamination in Developing Countries: Review of Their Types, Toxicity, Analysis, Occurrence and Mitigation Strategies
developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America as this has received less attention. A total of 65 publications have been found (from 2000 until October 2021) reporting the contamination by one or more ...
Estimating national and subnational nutrient intake distributions of global diets
Vitamin intake distributions were more variable and skewed and exhibited less similarity among countries than other nutrients. Inadequate intakes were high and geographically concentrated, as well as ...
Benchmarking public policies to create healthy food environments compared to best practice: the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index in Guatemala.
CONCLUSIONS: In the Food- EPI of Guatemala, almost all indicators of good practice had a low or less level of implementation. The expert panel proposed 12 priority actions to accelerate policy implementation to ...
Knowledge, attitude, and practices of the community and meat industry workers towards Taenia saginata taeniosis and bovine cysticercosis in and around Jimma and Ambo towns of Ethiopia
counterparts. Most of the community members and the vast majority of the meat industry workers were knowledgeable about taeniosis but less conscious about cysticercosis. The knowledge/attitude score of the ...
Pesticide Use in Market Gardening and Perceived Risk of Consumers Exposed to Pesticide Residues
that all consumers washed their vegetables before consumption, but more than half of the respondents (54%) wash their vegetables for less than a minute (simply passing them under running water). In the ...
Estimated effects of the implementation of the Mexican warning labels regulation on the use of health and nutrition claims on packaged foods.
specifications for implementing warning labels and other packaging elements such as health and nutrition claims on less healthy foods) on the prevalence of these claims. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study in ...
Safety assessment of titanium dioxide (E171) as a food additive.
reliable, including data obtained with TiO nanoparticles (NP s) and data from an extended one-generation reproductive toxicity (EOGRT) study. Less than 50% of constituent particles by number in E 171 have ...
The nature of food promotions over one year in circulars from leading Belgian supermarket chains
proportion of healthier and less healthy food promotions in circulars of major Belgian supermarket chains. Methods: Food promotions were collected from all circulars over 1 year from the five largest Belgian ...