Encapsulation involves the incorporation of food ingredients, enzymes, cells or other materials in small capsules. Applications for this technique have increased in the food industry since the encapsulated materials can be protected from moisture, heat or other extreme conditions, thus enhancing their stability and maintaining viability. Encapsulation in foods is also utilized to mask odours or...

The eating habits of society as a whole have drastically changed over the last few decades. The influx of technology, advertising, images in the media and changes within modern cultural and family values play a big role in the psychological evolution of consumers in the food service industry. My goal is to discover how the images in advertisements and media influence our desire to purchase food...

The array of ethical issues facing the food industry is extensive. It includes fair and just treatment to food industry employees, especially as disproportionate numbers of minorities take jobs in food processing and food service. Issues of food distribution and hunger continue to be important. In the calendar year 1992, however, these issues pale in comparison to those raised by food safety an...

This paper highlights the effectiveness of TCS (the Teaching Company Scheme) in improving the performance and competitiveness of companies in the foodprocessing industry. The industry is swinging towards the more efficient production of safe, high-quality foods, a change propelled by UK and EC legislation and by market forces. Developing and implementing new process procedures and systems, expl...

The overall goal of this paper is to develop a cost effective portable multispectral imaging instrument that inspectors or plant personnel can use for quality control. Food safety and quality in food industry, especially small plant is ongoing problem. Identification and separation of contaminated food is very important to protect the consumer from a potential source of food poisoning. The curr...

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This thesis describes some of the recent developments in multi-way analysis in the field of chemometrics. Originally, the primary purpose of this work was to test the adequacy of multi-way models in areas related to the food industry. However, during the course of this work, it became obvious that basic research is still called for. Hence, a fair part of the thesis describes methodological deve...

Failure in the cleaning process may form a conditioned film on the food processing surfaces which allows bacterial adherence. After the initial adhesion the microorganism start to multiplicate and results in a cell mass embedded in a complex exopolysaccharide matrix known as biofilm. Microorganisms in biofilm are more resistant to antimicrobial compounds than planktonic cells. That behavior all...

Ozone is a strong oxidant and potent disinfecting agent. Even though it is new for the US, it has been utilized in European countries for a long time. Ultraviolet radiation (188 nm wavelength) and corona discharge methods can be used to generate ozone. The bactericidal effects of ozone have been documented on a wide variety of organisms, including Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria as wel...