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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Food quality"”.
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Pet food: quality and quality improvement
Today’s pet food industry is growing rapidly, with pet owners demanding high-quality diets for their pets. The primary role of diet is to provide enough nutrients to meet metabolic requirements, while giving the consumer a feeling of well-being. Diet nutrient composition and digestibility are of …
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Applications of advanced data analysis procedures in food quality control
In food manufacturing, the quality control procedure is a critical activity that consists in organizing, measuring, tracking, and filing the conditions of the production process and the final product, with the goal of guaranteeing the designed quality standard. During the last 30 years, due to a …
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Analytical and metrological tools for food quality and safety assessment
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The Effects of Food Quality and Temperature on Mesozooplankton Physiology
… responses of copepods to variations in the quality of their diet and temperature and explores the variability of food quality in the field. Laboratory experiments were used to constrain the effects of food quality in terms of phytoplankton organic ratios N:P, C:N and C:P and fatty acid …
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Application of intense pulsed light for surface sterilization and food quality improvement
… of ultra-high intensity light for improving food quality by reducing surface microbial contamination and selected mold metabolites (aflatoxins). Flashblast™ light was found to be highly effective in inactivating vegetative cells of E. coli, S. aureus, B. cereus and B. subtilis. Bacilli and A. …
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The Human and Environmental Health Impacts of Food Quality Among Emergency Food Providers
… process, package, transport, market, and consume food are critical factors for both human and environmental health. The current industrial food system in the United States has numerous adverse effects on environmental and human health, which significantly impact the millions of food insecure …
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You eat what you need : food quality and trophic interactions in planktonic food webs
Da Zooplankter oft Schwankungen in der Nahrungsqualität und -quantität ausgesetzt sind, müssen sie Möglichkeiten entwickelt haben, mit diesen Schwankungen umzugehen. Ich habe gezeigt, dass die unterschiedlichen Entwicklungsstadien von Copepoden selektiv die Beute fressen, die grosse Mengen des von …
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DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTIFUNCTIONAL COOKING APPLIANCE: EVALUATION OF FOOD QUALITY INDEXES AND COOKING FUNCTIONS.
… living, simplifying daily tasks and enhancing quality of life. This PhD project addresses evolving consumer demands for multifunctional cooking appliances that optimize time, space, and energy consumption while delivering high sensory and nutritional food quality. The research aimed to design …
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The development of a methodology for assessing food quality in hospital food service systems.
There are few empirical studies of food quality within hospital food service systems. Although it is widely accepted that food quality is a multi-faceted phenomenon, much attention has been paid to single component explanations in the past. The aim of this study throughout has been two fold - to …
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Maternal Effort, Food Quality, and Cortisol Variation During Lactation in Propithecus coquereli in Northwestern Madagascar
The duration and quality of the infant care mothers provide is paramount to investigating life history theory. Maternal care is the principal determinant of infant survival and future reproductive success. Lactation is the most energetically expensive activity for mammals, in turn causing lactating …
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The food quality schemes of the European Union and their implications on the Hungarian market
… for consumers to know exactly what kind of foods they consume, while it is increasingly vital for food producers to excel from the competition in the global market. This requires a great deal of information exchange between these two market players. The most common way to do this is through …
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Post-mortem changes in Nephrops norvegicus muscle : biochemical processes, microbial actions and effects on food quality
… taken so far to assure a maximum postharvest quality and to gain a high quality product. Knowledge of early and late postmortem biochemical changes is poor and it is not known how ante- and peri-harvest stressors affect the postharvest product quality in N. norvegicus. Several quality …
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Investigating post-harvest insect-microbe interactions and their ramifications for global food quality, human health, and insect behavior
… and fitness among habitats of different quality by each species. To assess the vectoring capacity, both species originated from individuals placed immediately in a novel food patch, or given 24–72 h in a sterilized environment prior. Vectored microbes were imaged after 3–5 d. Increasing …
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Development and Application of An Integrated GC-MS/MS and GC-IRMS Analytical Approach in Food Quality Evaluation
… concerned not only about the composition of food products but also about their authenticity and geographical origin. Globalisation of food markets and the growing demand for high-quality natural ingredients have increased the economic value of many food products and flavourings. As a …
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'Giving effect to policy': a legal and empirical investigation of the implementation of European food quality schemes in Poland (PDO, PGI,TSG).
… effectiveness with reference to voluntary food quality schemes in Poland, in particular the laws of Protected Designations of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) and Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG). The core of the research is an empirical study, using …
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An Empirical and Theoretical Comparison of the Socio-ecological Behaviors of Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Bonobos (Pan paniscus), and Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): Social Tolerance and Behavioral Responses to Changes in Food Quality and Distribution
… Great Apes. Here, we hypothesized that high quality, clumped food would select for aggressive behaviors (characteristic of chimpanzees) and low quality, dispersed food would select for affiliative behaviors. Our results indicate that in these kinds of environmental conditions, these types of …
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Consumer perceptions towards the marketing of functional foods in the Umhlathuze region
… the populace as a result consumption of healthy food is given prevalence. Consumers nowadays prioritized purchasing healthy foods such as functional foods. To address this issue, greater varieties of healthy foods have been introduced by the food industry to reduce debilitating diseases such as …
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Zooplankton abundance, community composition and grazing in the James River Estuary (Virginia, USA)
… (Virginia, USA) exploit the available algal-food resources. Zooplankton abundance, community composition and grazing rates were assessed at three locations which included a site with high algal production (near the VCU Rice Center) and two sites where algal production was lower. Grazing rates …
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