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Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Volume 24, Issue 5, September 2025.ABSTRACT Following the implementation of the new European legislation on opium alkaloids (OAs) in food in 2023, scientific research has focused on developing analytical methodologies to determine the presence of these compounds in different foods. However, health authorities continue to suggest further studies to evaluate the occurrence of main OAs and
Gema Casado‐Hidalgo +2 more
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Global Overview of Drug Demand and Supply: Latest Trends, Cross-cutting Issues [PDF]
, 2017 An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...
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Annals of Applied Biology, Volume 187, Issue 2, Page 177-191, September 2025.This study evaluated the population dynamics of stubby root nematodes (SRN) in field rotations with cover crops and the subsequent effect of this rotation on sugar beet quality and quantity attributes. It was clear that the SRN densities under field conditions are influenced by multiple factors, such as the type of cover crops grown, soil disturbance ...
Nyambura G. Mwangi +6 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2010 Background Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) is the source for several pharmaceutical benzylisoquinoline alkaloids including morphine, the codeine and sanguinarine.
Schriemer David C +5 more
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Trying to Be All Things to All People: Alternative Development in Afghanistan
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020 Alternative development has had little success in Afghanistan. Understood and implemented as geographically bounded interventions designed to reduce drug crop cultivation, these projects failed to achieve their objectives throughout the 1990s. Since 2001,
David Mansfield
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Nonconventional Techniques in Plant Alkaloid Extraction: A Decade of Progress (2014–2023)
Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 22, Issue 8, August 2025.This figure seeks to represent the evolution of the different unconventional approaches that were adopted for the extraction of plant‐derived alkaloids during the decade from 2014 to 2023. ABSTRACT Plant metabolism encompasses primary and secondary pathways, with secondary metabolism yielding diverse natural products crucial for plant adaptation and ...
Victor Menezes Sipoloni +5 more
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History, Cultivation, and Adaptation of Papaver Species Globally
Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and TechnologyTürkiye has 27% of the World’s Papaver species in its flora, and 15 of them are endemic. Poppy (Papaver somniferum L.) is the most cultivated and economically significant species of the Papaver genus.
Yasin Özgen, Demet Burucu
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Literary investigation on the origin of poppy and other narcotics Research Articles
Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2009 Objectives : This study was performed to developing orally administered analgesics and locally injected pharmacopuncture analgesics like opioids. Methods : Literary investigation on the origin of poppy (Papaver somniferum L) and other narcotics was ...
Lim Chung San +5 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2012 The in vitro shoot culture of a T-DNA insertional mutant of Papaver somniferum L. established by the infection of Agrobacterium rhizogenes MAFF03-01724 accumulated thebaine instead of morphine as a major opium alkaloid.
Kayo Yoshimatsu +3 more
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Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2017 Opium was one of the drugs in the medieval history of Persia which has been used in medical affairs. By commercialization of poppy in Qajar dynasty with the permeation of the colonial policies, the material was conveyed to India and thence to China as a ...
Mostafa Namdari Monfared
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