Use of soft clay soils in construction activities has faced many problems. Some improvement, stabilization, and reinforcement methods is required to use these soils in body of roads, sub-foundations and embankments. In this research, the effect of chitin nanofiber and rice husk ash as additives on the behavioral properties and bearing resistance of soft clay soils by considering the processing ...

EPS formed by lactobacilli in situ during sourdough fermentation may replace hydrocolloids currently used as texturizing, antistaling, or prebiotic additives in bread production. In this study, a screening of >100 strains of cereal-associated and intestinal lactic acid bacteria was performed for the production of exopolysaccharides (EPS) from sucrose. Fifteen strains produced fructan, and four ...

DNA extraction from trace samples or noninvasively collected samples often results in the recovery of low concentration solutions of DNA that are prone to DNA degradation or other loss. Because of the difficulty in obtaining such samples, and their potentially high value in wildlife and forensic studies, it is critical that optimal methods are employed for their long-term storage. We assessed t...

A series of additives were evaluated for their effects on improving the yield and quality of DNA extracted from recalcitrant soils. Levels of possible DNA contaminants in these supplements were also assessed. Three of the additives (skim milk, casein, and RNA) were shown to be effective in improving the stable extraction of DNA from recalcitrant samples of Andosol. However, whereas skim milk ap...

three-hundred and twenty 7-day-old ross 308-strain broiler chickens were fed diets containing 0 or 125 ppb aflatoxin b 1 (afb1) from 7 to 28 days of age. sodium bentonite (0.5%), yeast (saccharomyces cervisiae) 0.2%, hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate (hscas) (0.5%), ammonia (0.5%), formycine (0.1%), and toxiban (0.1%) were added to the basal diet, as fed basis to determine the effects of ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the hypothesis that there is sufficient agreement between percentage of households purchasing selected foods using household budget surveys and percentage of individuals consuming these foods as determined in individual-based surveys to allow the former to act as a surrogate for the latter when estimating food chemical intakes using household budget data. DESIGN Database ...

The April 2013 News article “Secret Ingredients: Who Knows What’s in Your Food?” [Environ Health Perspect 121:A126–A133 (2013] included a simplified version of Figure 1B from Neltner et al. [Navigating the U.S. food additive regulatory program. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 10(6):342–368 (2011)]. In simplifying the figure, EHP introduced errors. We furthermore later determined that Figure 2 from ...

ZSM-5-containing catalytic additives are widely used in oil refineries to boost light olefin production and improve gasoline octanes in the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) process. Under the hydrothermal conditions present in the FCC regenerator (typically >700 °C and >8% steam), FCC catalysts and additives are subject to deactivation. Zeolites (e.g., Rare Earth USY in the base catalyst and ZSM-...

OBJECTIVES This study combines chemical analysis and flavour descriptions of flavour additives used in tobacco products, and provides a starting point to build an extensive library of flavour components, useful for product surveillance. METHODS Headspace gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was used to compare 22 commercially available tobacco products (cigarettes and roll-your-own) e...

The aim of the research project was to identify ways to maximise the flexibility of the plant by varying equipment utilization, while guaranteeing a certain level of profit. A case study was conducted at a company that makes various types of food additives, which are produced in a multi-product multipurpose batch plant. At the time of the research, market demand was exceeding the company's prod...