Cotton is the most important natural fiber source for the textile industry world-wide. It is also an alternative of the man-made petroleum-based “synthetic fibers” providing an advantage for a sustainable environment. Cotton is formed by developing seed of several Gossypium species, which are mainly grown as an important cash crop in more than 70 countries including USA, India, China and Uzbeki...

Plant has plenty use in foodstuff, medicine and industry, and is also vitally important for environmental protection. So, it is important and urgent to recognize and classify plant species. Plant classification based on leaf images is a basic research of botanical area and agricultural production. Due to the high nature complexity and high dimensionality of leaf image data, dimensional reductio...

Plant has plenty use in foodstuff, medicine and industry. And it is also vitally important for environmental protection. However, it is an important and difficult task to recognize plant species on earth. Designing a convenient and automatic recognition system of plants is necessary and useful since it can facilitate fast classifying plants, and understanding and managing them. In this paper, a...

Many artificial synthetic colorants, which have widely been used in foodstuff, dyestuff, cosmetic and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, comprise various hazardous effects. To counter act the ill effect of synthetic colorants, there is worldwide interest in process of development for the production of pigments from natural sources. The utilization of natural pigments in foodstuff, dyestuff...

Objective: To study the governance mechanism for food safety risk behavior of enterprises in Beijing to effectively prevent and control risks consumers. Methods: The HFACS model was used analyze surveyed data foodstuff enterprises. Results: A “one axis four dimensions” management behaviors established. Taking these as “axis” mechanism, following environments were formed within enterprises: a “r...

Aflatoxins are carcinogenic substances produced by fungi and due to the growth of fungi in a wide range of commodities including cereals, nuts, figs and spices, it is necessary to test such products for the presence of aflatoxins prior to their incorporation into other foodstuff or feeds. There is a need for a quick, simple test which can be used to check a diverse range of foodstuff. Two diffe...

Background Lipid Transfer Protein (LTP) allergy constitutes the first cause of food allergy to vegetables in Southern Europe. LTPs are highly stable proteins, resistant to both gastric digestion and high temperatures. Allergic reactions to multiples vegetables, not phylogenetically related, are produced based on the cross-reactivity among these proteins, a phenomenon that has been named LTP syn...

nonpasturized cream is usually contaminated with different types of pathogens, and its use in foodstuffs such as creamy cake and ice-cream is the main cause of contamination of such foodstuffs. the purpose of the analysis was to show the contamination rate of nonpasturized cream and foodstuffs in which such creams are used. studies carried out on 70 samples from 231 distribution centers, from d...

Abstract: The colored organic or inorganic chemical compounds which can impart colour to other substance are the Dyes did significant applications in most industrial sectors like textile industry, leather paper plastic, foodstuff industry etc, color their products. Due large volume of dye use these businesses, a quantity wastewater containing organics is generated. Because insufficient dye-fibe...