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Urine adulteration: Can bleach be used to mask MDMA use? [PDF]

, 2013
Concerns regarding specimen integrity have long been a major issue of urine drug testing due to acts of urine adulteration. At a high concentration, in vitro urine adulteration using sodium hypochlorite (bleach) produced false-negative results for 3,4 ...
Fu, S, Kelly, T, Pham, AQN
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Quantification of the adulteration concentration of palm kernel oil in virgin coconut oil using near-infrared hyperspectral imaging

Journal of Integrative Agriculture
The adulteration concentration of palm kernel oil (PKO) in virgin coconut oil (VCO) was quantified using near-infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging. Nowadays, some VCO is adulterated with lower-priced PKO to reduce production costs, which diminishes the ...
Phiraiwan Jermwongruttanachai, Siwalak Pathaveerat, Sirinad Noypitak   +2 more
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Influence of feeding bee colonies on colony strenght and honey authenticity

Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2015
For the natural development of bee colonies, there is the need for appropriate nutrition. Lack of natural honey flow must be supplemented by feeding bee colonies with sugar syrups or candy paste.
Andreja KANDOLF BOROVŠAK, Nives OGRINC, Nataša LILEK, Boštjan NOČ, Janko BOŽIČ, Mojca KOROŠEC   +5 more
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Trends in toxicological findings and drug seizures of MDMA in New Zealand from 2010 to 2022

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract 3,4‐Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or “ecstasy,” is a commonly used drug worldwide, including in New Zealand, where 4.8% of the population aged 15 years or over reported using it in a 2023/2024 survey. This study provides additional insights on MDMA prevalence data in New Zealand by reporting toxicology data from Coronial and driving ...
Thomas J. Sheehan, Hilary J. Hamnett, Sarah G. G. Russell, Diana Kappatos, Helen Poulsen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishment of rapid extraction and sensitive detection system of trace corn syrup DNA in honey

Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences
Honey adulteration with exogenous syrup has become a common phenomenon, and current detection techniques that require large instruments are cumbersome and time-consuming. In this study, a simple and efficient method was developed by integrating the rapid
Huixing Ye, Wenqiang Chen, Tao Huang, Junfeng Xu, Xiaofu Wang   +4 more
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WORKPLACE SUBSTANCE USE, THE RISK OF OCCUPATIONAL INJURY, AND TESTING [PDF]

, 2005
Over the past 20 years, the "workplace substance abuse prevention industry" has grown enormously in size and has become more sophisticated in its marketing approach. Drug testing alone has become a $6 billion industry.
Zimbardi, Guy
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Quality and Safety Aspects of Infant Nutrition [PDF]

, 2012
Quality and safety aspects of infant nutrition are of key importance for child health, but oftentimes they do not get much attention by health care professionals whose interest tends to focus on functional benefits of early nutrition.
Agostoni C, Agostoni C, Agostoni C, Aris B, Berthold Koletzko, Bier DM, Birlouez-Aragon I, Bonerba E, Cahill SM, Chang H, Dabeka R, Davanzo R, Day JB, Dewey KG, Domellof M, El-Tras WF, Erkekoglu P, Fattal-Valevski A, Fattal-Valevski A, Fattal-Valevski A, Fewtrell MS, Fewtrell MS, Flores JP, Friedman M, Gossner CM, Guzel A, Hamrin P, Hernell O, Hilbig A, Hirvonen T, Jongenburger I, Kaleita TA, Khlangwiset P, Kim SA, Koletzko B, Koletzko B, Koletzko B, Kornreich L, Kvist LJ, Lanska DJ, Lönnerdal B, Malloy MH, Margaret Ashwell, Miled RB, Mitkus RJ, Newberry RE, Norberg S, Oluwafemi F, Panfeng S, Pavesi Arisseto A, Raanan Shamir, Raecker T, Rebhan B, Reij MW, Ruiz E, Santillana MI, Schoder D, Shamir R, Silver LB, Simoneau C, Simoneau C, Snijder CA, Snijder CA, Szajewska H, Szajewska H, Turck D, Weistaub G, Welch RW, Whyatt RM, Willoughby A, Yen TH, Zlotkin S   +71 more
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Crossroads of the Life of Vittorio Alfieri

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Vittorio Alfieri's Life as a deliberately constructed narrative of cultural, linguistic, and political self‐fashioning within eighteenth‐century European intellectual networks. Rather than treating the autobiography as a transparent record of experience, the article argues that Alfieri retrospectively reorganizes his ...
Sara Gallegati
wiley   +1 more source

Tibetan Butter and Indian Ghee: A Review on Their Production and Adulteration

Agriculture
Tibetan butter and Indian ghee are both fat products derived from cow’s milk or other dairy products that are rich in nutrients. Although both Tibetan butter and Indian ghee are primarily produced by filtering, heating, separating, cooling, and molding ...
Fumin Chi, Zhankun Tan, Qianwei Wang, Lin Yang, Xuedong Gu   +4 more
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