BACKGROUND The food industry regulates various aspects of food handler activities, according to legislation and customer expectations. The purpose of this paper is to provide a code of practice which delineates a set of working standards for food handler hygiene, handwashing, use of protective equipment, wearing of jewellery and body piercing. METHODS The code was developed by a working group...

We provide a Mathematica package that evaluates the QCD analytic couplings (in the Euclidean domain) Aν(Q), which are analytic analogs of the powers a(Q) of the underlying perturbative QCD (pQCD) coupling a(Q) ≡ αs(Q)/π, in three analytic QCD models (anQCD): Fractional Analytic Perturbation Theory (FAPT), Two-delta analytic QCD (2δanQCD), and Massive Perturbation Theory (MPT). The analytic (hol...

The newborn piglet has a digestive system which is well adapted to a diet of its own dam’s milk, indeed if a sow has a plentiful supply of milk it is very difficult to interest her piglets in any alternative food, certainly for the 1 s t 1-2 weeks of life. Little supplementary food is actually eaten to start with. The piglets sniff the food, nuzzle it and taste it. Food that has been in the pen...

Abstract: The literature assessing the efficacy of the food stamp program has long puzzled over the negative correlation between food stamp receipt and various health related outcomes such as food security. We examine the impact of food stamps on food insecurity and health in households with children, formally accounting for identification problems arising from the endogenous selection and misc...

In 2013 nearly 8.6 million U.S. children lived in households in which one or more child was food insecure. The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is one of the largest federally funded food and nutrition assistance programs that aims to provide nutritious, well-balanced lunches for school-age children. Given the important role this program plays on food and nutrient intake of school-age child...