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Plastic contamination of the food chain: A threat to human health?

Maturitas, 2018
Macro-plastic pollution is found in terrestrial and marine environments and is degraded to micro-particles (MP) and nano-particles (NP) of plastic. These can enter the human food chain either by inhalation or by ingestion, particularly of shellfish and ...
R. H. Waring, R. Harris, Steve Chappell Mitchell   +2 more
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Dioxin in the Agricultural Food Chain

Risk Analysis, 1988
Polychlorinated dibenzo‐p‐dioxin's (PCDD) behavior in the agricultural food chain was modeled in this study. The source of PCDD was a municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerator. Of the farm livestock investigated only the beef cow and the milk cow were shown to contribute significant amounts of PCDD to humans. Milk was the single highest dietary source of
J B, Stevens, E N, Gerbec
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Security of the food supply chain

2009 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009
The food supply chain could became a dangerous weapon in the hands of enemies, for this reason the strategies developed to fight food adulteration (food safety) should be complemented with specific actions devoted to improve food "security" in the sense of food defence.
Roberto, Setola, Maria Carla, De Maggio
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FOOD CHAIN CONCEPT IN FOOD AND RURAL POLICY

2009
Food chain concept was firstly used as a private sector concept applied in order to optimise chain organisation and to create value along the chain. It is now becoming an approach to understand relations within a socio-economic area, both from for purely economic and production aims and from a territorial and rural development perspective.
BERTAZZOLI, ALDO, GHELFI, RINO, RIVAROLI, SERGIO, SAMOGGIA, ANTONELLA   +3 more
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Quinolone resistance in the food chain

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2008
Antimicrobials are used in pet animals and in animal husbandry for prophylactic and therapeutic reasons and also as growth promoters, causing selective pressure on bacteria of animal origin. The impact of quinolones or quinolone-resistant bacteria on the management of human infections may be associated with three different scenarios.
Anna, Fàbrega, Javier, Sánchez-Céspedes, Sara, Soto, Jordi, Vila   +3 more
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Positioning of Interoperability in Food Chain

2012
Higher food quality and more dynamic food chain environment have resulted in new challenges for food traceability. In order to meet these challenges, traditional food traceability frameworks need to be evolved. This paper introduced environment of a dynamic food chain network. It addressed limitations to current traceability frameworks, thus determined
Kai Mertins, Frank-Walter Jaekel, Quan Deng 0002   +2 more
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Food chain dynamics in the chemostat

Mathematical Biosciences, 1998
The asymptotic behavior of a tri-trophic food chain model in the chemostat is studied. The Monod-Herbert growth model is used for all trophic levels. The analysis is carried out numerically, by finding both local and global bifurcations of equilibria and of limit cycles with respect to two chemostat control parameters: the dilution rate of the ...
Boer, M.P., Kooi, B.W., Kooijman, S.A.L.M.   +2 more
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The impact of food regulation on the food supply chain

Toxicology, 2006
Food regulation in the main is aimed at protecting the consumer's health, increasing economic viability, harmonizing well-being and engendering fair trade on foods within and between nations. Consumers nowadays are faced with food or food ingredients that may derive from distant countries or continents, and with a less transparent food supply.
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Food Chains

2009
1. Making Food Chains: The Book -Roger Horowitz PART I. OVERVIEW 2. How Much Depends on Dinner? -Warren Belasco 3. Analyzing Commodity Chains: Linkages or Restraints? -Shane Hamilton PART II. ANIMALS 4. Lard to Lean: Making the Meat-Type Hog in Post-World War II America -J. L. Anderson 5. The Chicken, the Factory Farm and the Supermarket: The Emergence
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Marine Plankton Food Chains

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1988
The view on the ecology of marine plankton has changed significantly within the last decade. In some respects the change is sufficiently dramatic to make some authors speak about a "change in paradigm" (84). The new picture of plankton dynamics includes the recognition that phototrophic and heterotrophic microorganisms play a substantial and sometimes ...
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