The Food and Drugs Act 1955 This Act contains a number of general provisions that relate directly or indirectly to nutrition. Section I provides that no person shall add anything to or abstract anything from food, or subject food to any other process or treatment, so as to render it injurious to health. Section 2 makes it an offence to sell food to the prejudice of the purchaser that is not of ...

Between 1980 and roughly 1996, about 750,000 cattle infected with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) were slaughtered for human consumption in Great Britain, and it is now clear that BSE, also known as “mad cow disease” is not merely a UK phenomenon, nor is it merely an economic nuisance. The sudden and explosive increase of BSE in recent Europe may have been spread among cattle by the feed...

nutrition department has a critical effect on patient satisfaction and improves the therapeutic process and is one of the most important departments in hospitals. the current study was carried out to assess haccp implementation requirements in the nutrition department of the selected hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences in 2010. in this descriptive, cross sectional study, nutritio...

I have a very strong aversion to certain food textures such as potato (mashed, chipped, roasted, etc.), that causes me to gag violently. I am 22 years old and have a BMI of 16 which I blame in part to my very unbalanced diet. I am constantly lethargic but am eating three good portion meals a day. I was wondering if there was a way to get over this sensitivity as I am eating cereal without milk ...

By all accounts, the proness of the Merhabete people to recurrent, and sometimes colossal, food shortages has had several interlocking sources, including maladministration, untimely execution of government policies, unsuccessful handling of issues of land reform, environmental bankruptcy and the unprecedented intensity of the "grain drain", resulting from rapid soil erosion, over-cultivation, d...

Myanmar has a policy of promoting food and nutrition security and, at the national level, food production is more than that required to meet the country's needs. Nevertheless, food and nutrition surveillance has revealed that malnutrition still exists in the country, despite economic growth and national food self-sufficiency. The National Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition, formulated in 199...

Eating location has been linked with variations in diet quality including the consumption of low-nutrient energy-dense food, which is a recognised risk factor for obesity. Cross-sectional data from 4736 adults aged 19 years and over from Years 1-6 of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Rolling Programme (RP) (2008-2014) were used to explore food consumption patterns by eating locat...