Abstract Background In Indonesia, the postharvest fruit loss is 25%, so economic from export of various fruits estimated at US$ 58,966,861. One causes for pathogens. Postharvest rot caused mainly by fungi, some which produce mycotoxins harmful to human health. Therefore, in meeting global food safety requirements, Indonesia should develop a biological control strategy diseases. This paper revie...

The world's food demand is increasing rapidly due to fast population growth that has posed a challenge meeting the requirements of nutritionally balanced diets. Pulses could play major role in human diet combat these challenges and provide nutritional physiological benefits. such as chickpeas, green gram, peas, horse beans, lentils, black etc., are rich sources protein (190–260 g kg −1 ), carbo...

This meeting was embedded within the prestigious Prince Mahidol Award Conference series. At the same time, the 1 st Global Conference on Regional Surveillance Networks, the Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation and many specific side meetings, were held. In total, there were 966 invited participants from 73 countries, representing academics, governments (including public health...

The paper aims at supporting human activities with mobile information technology. Supporting activities over time, space and different social settings requires information technology to give seamless network access in different environments and to model the user’s implicit and explicit interaction history to adapt to the current situation. As a pro totype for a system meeting these requirements...

In France, school meals must comply with 15 frequency criteria (FC) expressed as nutritional requirements (e.g., "starters containing more than 15% fat served no more than four times out of 20") in a series of 20 consecutive meals. The objective was to assess, for the first time, the nutritional impact of complying with French school food FC. Based on 40 series of meals actually served in prima...

A meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Rome, Italy, from 8 to 17 November 2016. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate certain contaminants in food. Dr R. Cantrill, American Oil Chemists’ Society, United States of America, served as Chairperson, and Dr D. Benford, Food Standards Agency, United Kingdom, served as ViceChairperson. Dr M. Lipp, Agr...

OBJECTIVE To examine the feasibility of using point-of-sale data to assess dietary quality of food sales in remote stores. DESIGN A multi-site cross-sectional assessment of food and nutrient composition of food sales. Point-of-sale data were linked to Australian Food and Nutrient Data and compared across study sites and with nutrient requirements. SETTING Remote Aboriginal Australia. SUBJ...

Nutrition is considered to be one of the key components in the development of most chronic degenerative diseases so that medical nutrition therapy has become important in their primary prevention. Food-based dietary guidelines provide the following values: the Lowest Threshold Intake (LTI), the Average Requirement (AR) and the Population Reference Intake (PRI) or Recommended Dietary Allowance (...