BACKGROUND The reduction in the amount of food available for European avian scavengers as a consequence of restrictive public health policies is a concern for managers and conservationists. Since 2002, the application of several sanitary regulations has limited the availability of feeding resources provided by domestic carcasses, but theoretical studies assessing whether the availability of foo...

Staphylococcal food poisoning and botulism are caused by the ingestion of food containing exotoxins. Outbreaks of both are still a problem in many countries. This paper attempts to summarize information relating to these illnesses, together with advice on how their incidence may be reduced, or better still prevented. Introduction It is an unfortunate fact that each year a large number of people...

This document has been prepared at the request of the Secretariat of the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and in close collaboration with the FAO Plant Production and Protection Division, to facilitate the Commission’s deliberations when it will review key issues on targets and indicators for plant genetic resources for food and agriculture at its Fifteenth Regular ...

1. When resources are scarce, organisms are faced with critical challenges trying to optimize competing functions. Reproduction and immune function are both resource intensive and important to most species. Most studies have reported a down-regulation of immune function during reproduction. Conversely, it is unclear whether mounting an immune response can affect the reproductive process and few...

Research has shown that imagining food consumption leads to food-specific habituation effects. In the present research, we replicated these effects and further examined whether the depletion of self-regulatory resources would reduce the habituation effects of imagined food consumption. Since self-regulatory resources have been shown to reduce habituation effects during the perception of emotion...

Author details Research and Development Division, Industrial Technology Research Group, World Institute of Kimchi, Nam-Gu, Gwangju 61755, South Korea. Department of Oriental Medicine Resources, Chonbuk National University, Iksan, Jeonbuk 54596, Republic of Korea. Functional Food & Nutrition Division, Department of Agro-food Resources, Rural Development Administration, Wanju, Jeonbuk 55365, Sout...

Food security has become one of the heated issues in society because of the frequent occurrence of food security incidents in recent years. So far all regulatory agencies in Hangzhou have established their food regulatory information systems. However, because of the mutual independence and heterogeneousness among these systems, it is hard to share the information and to take concerted steps amo...

Data are presented on ring-tailed lemur feeding ecology and resource use at the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve in southwestern Madagascar. The phenological availability of food resources was sampled monthly from 199 trees and 31 species. Results indicate that Lemur catta feeding ecology is finely tuned to the seasonal nature of specific food resources. Key species provide important food items du...

Pollinator and flower morphology are important factors in structuring the plant-pollinator relationship. A pollinator’s morphology may influence aspects of its diet. Flower-visiting bats are important pollinators but very little is known about what influences their interactions with food plants. I examined the role of morphology in the partitioning of food resources for five species of flower-v...