Abstract For more than a decade actors in Europe, North America and Australasia have been warning of crises with horticultural skills, highlighting shortages specialists, educational programmes traineeships. Related warnings predict worsening skilled workers essential for production crops. Analysis recent strategies from the UK finds these problems poorly defined characterised, without articula...

cancer incidence is projected to increase in the future and an effectual preventive strategy is required to face this challenge. alteration of dietary habits is potentially an effective approach for reducing cancer risk. assessment of biological effects of a specific food or bioactive component that is linked to cancer and prediction of individual susceptibility as a function of nutrient-nutrie...

With a global economic crisis, undernourished peoples in South East Asia, as elsewhere, face even greater food insecurity. Future challenges to food availability include increasing food prices, increasing population size and climate change. National policies are required which emphasise improved intersectoral coordination, enhanced government credibility and accountability, as well as a shift i...

Nowadays, there is increasing interest in the production of functional foods, particularly probiotic foods. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) particularly strains of Lactobacillus are important bacteria in food microbiology and human nutrition due to their ability to fermented food production and have received considerable attention as probiotics. The traditional fermented dairy foods as a rich source...

Background: Multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae which was confined to the hospital environments is now emerging in the domestic food related environments as well. The main objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the domestic food related environments.  Methods: Resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ...

BACKGROUND Simultaneous dietary achievement of a full set of nutritional recommendations is difficult. Diet optimization model using linear programming is a useful mathematical means of translating nutrient-based recommendations into realistic nutritionally-optimal food combinations incorporating local and culture-specific foods. We used this approach to explore optimal food intake patterns tha...