Food safety crises usually receive widespread publicity and an extensive media coverage which evidently is mainly negative. Based on previous research, the purpose of this article is to illustrate the impact of positive and negative food safety information on demand both in the short and long term. Apparently, asymmetric effects of media coverage provoke a shift in the consumers’ perception of ...

Introduction Organochlorine pesticides and PCB congeners are persistent organic compounds found in the environment. Because of their stability and tendency to accumulate in fat they can enter the food chain and therefore be found in cow milk. As these chemicals are banned in most countries, it is expected that the compounds can still be found in cow milk due to environmental contamination of th...

PURPOSE To assess the availability, location, and format of nutrition information in fast-food chain restaurants in Ontario. METHODS Nutrition information in restaurants was assessed using an adapted version of the Nutrition Environment Measures Study for Restaurants (NEMS-R). Two raters independently visited 50 restaurants, 5 outlets of each of the top-10 fast-food chain restaurants in Canad...

The food supply chain is a critical infrastructure that is an attractive target for terrorist attacks. Despite its importance, relatively little research has focused on improving the security of the food supply chain infrastructure. This is largely due to a lack of awareness on the part of food supply chain stakeholders and authorities about the threats. This paper describes a methodology for a...

ingestion of infective metacercariae, attached to watercress or other various species of water and terrestrial plants, has been implicated as the main source of human contamination by fasciolid flukes. presence of several species of aromatic wild grown plants, which are eaten fresh on the table or used for preparation of some plant-made foods (delar, mixture of salt and ground local plants, as ...

background and objective: human papillomavirus (hpv) is one of the possible etiologic factors  in development of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (escc). in this study we aimed to study the  role of hpv in escc. patients and methods:in this study, 140 cases of escc were analyzed for the hpv dna by  polymerase chain reaction (pcr) using gp5+/gp6+ primers for l1 open reading frame (orf) to  am...

conclusions in this study b19-parvovirus infection were detected in patients with hematologic disorders in comparison with control subjects. screening of patients with a high risk of parvovirus b19 infection can considerably reduce the incidence and prevalence of b19 infection. results the parvovirus b19-specific nucleotide sequence was detected in 6 patients (20%). none of the samples obtained...

conclusions according to this research and prevalence of hhv-6 in children, evaluation of csf (detecting the hhv-6 dna by pcr) is recommended in patients younger than 13 months with possible encephalitis. results from a total of 114 patients, hhv-6 was detected in 10 (8.8%), 90% of which were boys with mean age 7.7 months and median of 7.5 months. no significant differences were found in clinic...