The use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods to conduct environmental exposure assessments provides valuable insight about disparities in seafood consumption and contaminant exposure. Ninety-five community-specific seafood consumption surveys were administered to low-income African-American women (ages 16-49) residing in the Southeast community of Newport News, VA, USA, for ...

BACKGROUND Despite general agreement about the toxicity of methylmercury (MeHg), fish consumption advice remains controversial. Concerns have been raised that negative messages will steer people away from fish and omega-3 fatty acid (FA) benefits. One approach is to provide advice for individual species that highlights beneficial fish while cautioning against riskier fish. OBJECTIVES Our goal...

Each tuna species appeared to have its unique price depending on landing, season, and nutritional value, hence, adulteration could occur by replacing tunas of high quality those having low quality. This study was undertaken explore the potential mid infrared (MIR) spectroscopy for discriminating canned containing different species: yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye, albacore. A total 218 tunas, produ...

Unsteady fluid mechanics and convective heat transfer in the sterilization of canned tuna chunks immersed a non-Newtonian by Darcy-Brinkmann-Forchheimer porous model has been studied numerically conjugate mathematical model. The coupled equations were solved Finite Volume method with SIMPLE algorithm. developed related time temperature distribution kinetics C. botulinum inactivation degradation...