Food Hygenic Studies on Fish Meat Products

Thiamine-modifying properties of fish and meat products.

The presence of antithiamine factors in fish has been known since the early 1940's when it was noted that foxes fed raw carp developed polyneuritic symptoms or Chastek paralysis which was characteristic of thiamine deficiency (1). This condition could be pre vented by heating the fish or including ad ditional thiamine in the diet and was later shown to be caused by the presence of an enzyme "th...

Meat and Meat Products

Emotions generated by meat and other food products in women.

Eating behaviour depends partly on food preference, which is itself determined by different types of emotions. Among the emotions generated by food, disgust with red meat is common in women and can lead to reduced meat consumption. We tested the hypothesis that low meat intake is related to different negative emotions towards meat but does not affect the emotions expressed towards other food ca...

Biotechnology for porcine products and its effect on meat products

Recombinant DNA technology has provided a mechanism for large scale production of somatotropin (growth hormone). There is no question that exogenous administration of somatotropin (ST) to pigs significantly improves efficiency of growth and carcass composition. Microinjecting foreign DNA into the pronucleus of fertilized ova is the predominant method employed to produce transgenic animals. The ...

Biogenic amines in meat and meat products.

It has been recognized for some time that biogenic amines occur in a wide range of foods, among them meat and meat products. Meat is an important component of the diet in developed countries. The presence of these amines in food is of interest for two reasons: firstly, for toxicological reasons, in the sense that high levels of dietary biogenic amines can be toxic for certain consumers, and sec...