CONTEXT The Food Safety and Standards Act have redefined the roles and responsibilities of food regulatory workforce and calls for highly skilled human resources as it involves complex management procedures. AIMS 1) Identify the competencies needed among the food regulatory workforce in India. 2) Develop a competency-based training curriculum for food safety regulators in the country. 3) Deve...

The incidence of food borne disease has recently increased in Europe, due to the unsuitable product processing, packaging, distribution and storage. This problem is particularly important for meat products, where the cold chain management plays a strategic role for the quality of the product arriving to the consumers’ home. In this context different technologies like RFID or TTI can help to kee...

The development of integrated, fast and affordable platforms for pathogen detection is an emerging area where a multidisciplinary approach is necessary for designing microsystems employing miniaturized devices; these new technologies promise a significant advancement of the current state of analytical testing leading to improved healthcare. In this work, the development of a lab-on-chip microsy...

background: isolation of high quality genomic dna is one of the most important steps in molecular biology studies related to food borne parasites. usually, various protocols are used for different tissues but so far, there is no common, simple and cost benefit procedure for genomic dna extraction of linguatula serrata ( l. serrata .) larvae as a pentastomida endangering food safety. one of the ...

background: this study aimed at investigation of the chemical composition, antimicrobial activity, and antioxidant properties of clove, cumin, origanum, and anise essential oils (eos). methods: chemical compositions of the eos were identified using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (gc/ms). the antibacterial activities of eos against four important food-borne bacteria were assessed by disc d...

antibacterial drugs used in animal might result in deposition of residues in meat, milk and eggs. the presence of antimicrobial residues in animal-originated food is critical problem in many countries over the years. because, drug residues might result in various health hazards, both actual incidence of reactions and potential hazards perceived by the public, the most countries assess residue o...

In this paper test generation methods and appropriate fault models for testing and analysis of embedded systems described as (extended) finite state machines ((E)FSMs) are presented. Compared to simple FSMs, EFSMs specify not only the control flow but also the data flow. Thus, we define a two-level fault model to cover both aspects. The goal of this paper is to reuse well-known FSM-based test g...

Food companies and governments in many countries are putting increasing emphasis on establishment of food traceability systems. Food traceability has become an effective way in food safety management. Aimed at food safety problems of cereal and oil products existing in the production, processing, warehousing, distribution and other links in the supply chain, this paper firstly proposes a new tr...