arsenic is a carcinogenic and toxicant element widely found in the environment and might be part of causation web of oesophageal cancer (oc), which has one of the highest incidence rates in golestan province, northeast iran. in this pilot study, we collected 10 sheep tail (donbeh) and 9 mixed spices samples, as widely consumed foods in the region, from main counties in the province and analyzed...

The present invention is to a safe, biodegradable trace metal binding system that effectively delivers chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium and zinc to animals. The method of preparing an animal foodstuff composition involves the steps of: providing transgenic algal cells comprising a nucleotide sequence, the nucleotide sequence being capable of expressing a non-nativ...

The irradiation of food is a technology used in the industry to prevent the deterioration of foodstuff in some countries. The European Community legislation states that each Member State must carry out annual checks on the products during commercialisation. The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle regioni Lazio e Toscana (Rome, Italy) has developed and validated the screening method of p...

background: breakfast cereal is a nutritious type of food that is widely consumed by various age groups in kuwait. this study investigates the presence of long-lived gamma emitters in breakfast cereal, and estimates annual effective doses to various age groups. materials and methods: breakfast cereal samples were collected from the kuwaiti local market. the samples originated from different cou...

The recent development of digital camera and growth of data storage has led to a huge amount of image databases. Only a few were proposed for specified databases such as satellite images, leaf sets, maps, faces, fingers and so on. There are a lot of content-based retrieval systems which are mostly applied to general image databases (CBIR) and there are very few for plant databases. The use of p...