Shewanella spp. is infrequently recovered from clinical specimens. Following two outbreaks of food poisoning, eight Shewanella spp. strains were obtained from the fecal specimens of patients, food and food processing-related materials. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) was identified in the culture supernatants of these strains, and the toxin's biological activity was detected using a mouse bioassay. This stu...

We should embrace our heritage through cultures food but we also become more informed about other by trying their foods. It’s important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture which it belongs, and is those who prepare it. Food portal into culture, be treated as such. The results of this study are when considering international cuisine foreign response

The increased use of food cultures to ferment perishable raw materials has potentiated the need for regulations to assess and assure the safety of food cultures and their uses. These regulations differ from country to country, all aimed at assuring the safe use of food cultures which has to be guaranteed by the food culture supplier. Here we highlight national differences in regulations and rev...

The papers in the session "Food Culture and Consumer Response," show how important people's values, beliefs, aspirations and social context are to their dietary health. They also reveal several tensions that shape consumer responses to healthy food. This essay discusses the paradoxical nature of eating habits in general, and describes three paradoxes related specifically to the challenges of pr...

In human societies biological processes vital for man's survival acquire social and cultural significance. Intake of food, sexual intercourse or elimination physiological phenomena which are universal for the entire living world become institutions regulated by cultural values and social rules.... Human beings experience hunger for food and sexual desire, but culture and society dictate to the ...

This Article explores the evolution and interaction of the legal and cultural categories "food" and "drug" from the late nineteenth century to the present. The federal statutory definitions of "food" and "drug" have always been ambiguous and plastic, providing the FDA with significant regulatory flexibility. Nevertheless, the agency is not necessarily free to interpret the definitions however i...

In the digital world, notions of intimacy, communion and sharing are increasingly enacted through new media technologies and social practices which emerge around them. These technologies with the ability to upload, download and disseminate content to select audiences or to a wider public provide opportunities for the creation of new forms of rituals which authenticate and diarise everyday exper...

Economy: worldwide accessibility for food/diminishing quantitative discrepancy between rich and poor countries providing a nutritional optimum per capita decreasing waste of food Food Security: tracing/tracking of animals and products developing a good agricultural practice building responsibility for the total supply chain Sustainability: meeting technical standards like CO 2 decrease/not livi...

Survival of golden shiner Notemigonous crysoleucas larvae fed nine different formulated diets was evaluated in 2007 and 2008. Fry (1-d post hatch) were stocked equally into indoor tanks and then pair-wise comparisons were ran to evaluate differences in survival among different prepared foods in 14-d culture trials. In 2007 six diets were evaluated and in 2008 three more diets were evaluated aga...