Biosensor: an emerging safety tool for meat industry

Food Safety in the Meat Industry: A Regulatory Quagmire

Opportunities for microbiologists in an emerging industry.

Many industries are reshaping their business strategy with respect to research and development (R&D). Research laboratories are being shut down due to poor long-term cost-benefit ratios and are instead relying on university research projects to keep the innovation pipeline open in order to obtain new products and services. At the same time, lower labor costs are shifting production activities t...

Quantitative risk assessment: an emerging tool for emerging foodborne pathogens.

New challenges to the safety of the food supply require new strategies for evaluating and managing food safety risks. Changes in pathogens, food preparation, distribution, and consumption, and population immunity have the potential to adversely affect human health. Risk assessment offers a framework for predicting the impact of changes and trends on the provision of safe food. Risk assessment m...

Designing and Constructing a Tool for Safety Culture Evaluation in a Processing Industry Based on Factor Analysis

Objective: This study aims to develop and create a tool based on factor analysis to assess safety culture in the processing industry. Methods: This study was conducted in the petrochemical industry in 2021. The questionnaires were distributed among 312 employees, supervisors, and managers, and 308 of them were completed. The validity of the questionnaire was assessed by content and construct v...

Smartphones : An Emerging Tool for Social Scientists

Recent developments in mobile technologies have produced a new kind of device: a programmable mobile phone, the smartphone. In this paper we argue that the technological and social characteristics of this device make it a useful tool in social sciences, particularly sociology, social psychology, urban studies, technology assessment and media studies. The device is willingly carried by a large f...