BACKGROUND Birch pollen-associated plant food allergy is caused by Bet v 1-specific IgE, but presence of cross-reactive IgE to related allergens does not predict food allergy. The role of other immunoglobulin isotypes in the birch pollen-plant food syndrome has not been investigated in detail. METHODS Bet v 1-sensitized birch pollen-allergic patients (n = 35) were diagnosed for food allergy b...

From November 1991 to October 1993, 980 specimens of the characid Brycinus nurse were collected from Asa reservoir to examine its diet. The diet was analyzed using the frequency of occurrence, numerical and gravimetric methods. Two hundred and sixty nine (27.45%) of the stomachs examined were empty. The fish was an omnivore feeding extensively on a wide array of plant and animal food items. The...

Plant-based diets in comparison to diets rich in animal products are more sustainable because they use many fewer natural resources and are less taxing on the environment. Given the global population explosion and increase in wealth, there is an increased demand for foods of animal origin. Environmental data are rapidly accumulating on the unsustainability of current worldwide food consumption ...

Marie-José Côté, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), Centre for Plant Quarantine Pests, 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2H 8P9; Marie-Claude Tardif, Health Canada, Food Directorate, Building #7, Tunney’s Pasture, P.L. 0700E1, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2; and Allison J. Meldrum, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), C...

increasing resource use efficiency is one of the important ways to enhance agricultural productions and reduce environmental hazards. for this purpose, improvement of n use efficiency is an effective approach. nitrogen losses not only occur in field but also in the processing course. the objective of this study was to calculate nitrogen losses and efficiency during production to consumption for...

BACKGROUND Since 2009, millions of people have been forced to live under food shortage by the continuous drought in Southwestern China. The market was the primary source of aid grains, and fears that the market will be unable to provide sufficient food make safeguarding food security in the face of climate change crucial. Traditional adaptive strategies of pre-market indigenous people are a pot...

This paper presents a model-based approach for competitive analysis of manufacturing plants in the U. S. food processing industry. As part of this approach, plant competitiveness is measured using Operational Competitiveness Ratings Analysis (OCRA) -a new non-parametric method of computing relative inefficiency. Drivers of competitiveness are identified in terms of policies related to plant str...

Recent metaanalyses suggest biodiversity loss affects the functioning of ecosystems to a similar extent as other global environmental change agents. However, the abundance and functioning of soil organisms have been hypothesized to be much less responsive to such changes, particularly in plant diversity, than aboveground variables, although tests of this hypothesis are extremely rare. We examin...

Aims: To inventory the wild plant species used both as food and medicine and how they are used in Panyago Sub County, Nebbi district. Study Design: Ethnobotanical study. Place and Duration of Study: The villages of Kaal, Padoch South, Nyakaduli and Pacer South, Panyango Sub County, Jonam County in Nebbi district, between May and July 2011. Methodology: Data were collected from the local people ...