while ignoring income distribution and estimating aggregate demand generally leads to aggregation bias and thus, does not reflect households’ demand properly, yet aggregation bias is rarely considered in empirical demand studies and simply is ignored in most cases. the objective of the present study is to estimate aggregation bias in households’ demand for various types of meats and to evaluate...

Brain tumors are the leading cause of death from childhood cancer, yet the causes of most of these tumors remain obscure. Few chemicals are effective in causing brain tumors experimentally after systemic administration of low doses; a notable exception is one group of N-nitroso compounds, the nitrosamides (in particular the nitrosoureas). Feeding pregnant animals nitrosamide precursors (e.g., s...

Currently, meat consumers are more conscious about the authentic products linked to their origin, which generates a growing demand for labeled sheep meat. In eastern Morocco, Beni-Guil (BG) is Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) product. This study aimed assess variation of intramuscular fat quality BG in its cradles (Cr). The chemical composition longissimus lumborum muscle was evaluated f...

The meat of sharks and rays is commonly traded in Brazil under the generic name cação. This compromises monitoring which species are being traded. In present study, molecular marker techniques were applied to species-level identification elasmobranch southwest State São Paulo. A total 15 meats purchased 2019 partially sequenced (up 655 base pairs) for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit ...