Therefore fruits and vegetables are very useful for the maintenance of health as a preventive treatment of various diseases (D’ mello, 2003). The presence of heavy metals may have a negative influence on the quality of vegetables and fruits causing changes to their taste and smell. The term heavy metals to any metallic elements that has a relative density greater than 4gcm -3 . In the group of ...

Abstract: The demands for organically produced vegetable are increasing all over the world including Kuwait. Therefore, efforts are being made to develop an appropriate package of practices for organic greenhouse vegetable production under Kuwait's harsh climatic conditions. Several experiments were conducted to select suitable growing substrate for production of organic leafy vegetables like I...

Trace metals such as mercury, especially its organic compounds, are an important risk to the environment and to man due to their accumulation in the food chain. For this reason, the routine determination of the very toxic methylmercury, and of other organic and inorganic mercury compounds in marine and land animals, vegetables, fruits and fresh water is of increasing importance in health and en...

This paper investigates the development of a simple model for the optimization of codigestion not only using the Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP) but also using the degradation kinetics. This study concerns an experimental work on the implementation and the operation of continuous reactors fed with different fruits and vegetables wastes at different organic loading rates. A simple model was ...

Arthropod development can be used to determine the time of colonization of human remains to infer a minimum postmortem interval. The black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens L. (Diptera. Stratiomyidae) is native to North America and is unique in that its larvae can consume a wide range of decomposing organic material, including carrion. Larvae development was observed on six resources: control poul...

Nitrogen is an essential element for plant growth and development; however, due to environmental pollution, high nitrate concentrations accumulate in the edible parts of these leafy vegetables, particularly if excessive nitrogen fertilizer has been applied. Consuming these crops can harm human health; thus, developing a suitable strategy for the agricultural application of nitrogen fertilizer i...

Nitrate and nitrite are widespread contaminants of vegetables, fruits, and waters. The levels of these compounds are increased as a result of using organic wastes from chemical industries, domestic wastes, effluents, nitrogenous fertilizers, and herbicides in agriculture. Therefore, determining the nitrate and nitrite levels in biological, food, and environmental samples is important to protect...

Produce Inflate Human Organophosphate Exposure Assessments We read the recent report by Curl et al. (2003) concerning organophosphate (OP) pesticide exposures with considerable interest. It seems to have escaped their notice that OP pesticides yield the same dialkylphosphate (DAP) products in urine whether they are human metabolites or formed in treated fruits and vegetables and consumed in the...

This integrated community service program (PPMT) was carried out in Mendak Hamlet, Banyuwangi Village, Bandongan District, Magelang Regency, Central Java the form of developing and marketing organic local rice utilizing yard land. The purpose is to increase public awareness processing make mothers aware use home gardens meet healthy food needs. implementation this socialization, training for se...

Neighborhood characteristics, such as healthy food availability, have been associated with consumption of healthy food. Little is known about the influence of the local food environment on other dietary choices, such as the decision to consume organic food. We analyzed the associations between organic produce consumption and demographic, socioeconomic and neighborhood characteristics in 4,064 p...