the aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of the population of fez and casablanca in morocco to dry white beans (phaseolus vulgaris) and to investigate the effect of food processing (heat and/or enzymatic hydrolysis by pepsin) on this sensitivity. work was based on a bank consisting of 146 sera from patients with atopic hypersensitivity in order to evaluate specific immunoglobulin e...

There is general agreement that listeriosis has a significant impact on Man as well as on animals. Listeria monocytogenes has been isolated from the faeces of healthy human and animal carriers and from various environmental sources. L. monocytogenes is the pathogenic species most responsible for abortion, septicaemia and meningitis in animals and Man. Listeria ivanovii is a primary cause of abo...

BACKGROUND In households and food processing plants, minute food residues left behind from improper cleaning may influence the survivability of human norovirus on surfaces. In this study, the survivability of norovirus on desiccated food residue-attached stainless steel coupons was investigated. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Using murine norovirus-1 (MNV-1) as a surrogate of human norovirus,...

Traditional food processing approaches like cooking, freezing, refrigeration and blanching are commonly known methods and are generally used by the people in their homes. However, in the food processing industries these techniques are combined with other processing operations with the help of several contemporary process-technology plants by using different technical prospects that are not comm...

All human societies must solve a set of problems related to food. The first of these is to procure edible plants and animals through some form of production process. Early humans relied mainly on hunting, fishing, and gathering all of which are still practiced in the modern world. About 10,000 years ago, certain plants and animals were domesticated giving rise to new methods to produce food. Cr...

The occurrence of bacteria in the food processing environments plays a key role in food contamination and development of spoilage. Species of the genus Pseudomonas are recognized as major food spoilers and the capability to actually determine spoilage can be species- as well as strain-dependent. In order to improve the taxonomic resolution of 16S rRNA gene amplicons, in this study we used oligo...

Why don’t workers follow Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) guidelines? Socio-psychological models have been used to describe factors that influence the implementation of food safety management systems (FSMSs) in food processing facilities. The theory of planned behavior posits that perceived control over one’s own behavior, one’s attitude and the influence of others are antecedents...