BACKGROUND Diacylglycerol (DAG), which has health-enhancing properties, is sometimes added to bakery shortening to produce baked products with enhanced physical functionality. Nevertheless, the quantity present is often too little to exert any positive healthful effects. This research aimed to produce bakery shortenings containing significant amounts of palm diacyglycerol (PDG). Physicochemical...

Two experiments were conducted to determine the standardized total tract digestibility (STTD) of P and the concentration of DE and ME in corn, hominy feed, bakery meal, distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS), corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, and corn germ meal fed to growing pigs. In Exp. 1, 84 barrows (initial BW: 13.7±2.3 kg) were placed in metabolism cages and allotted to 14 diets w...

BACKGROUND Currently, there is no mandatory labelling of allergens for non-pre-packed foods in the EU. Therefore, consumers with food allergy rely on voluntary information provided by the staff. The aim of this study was to characterize allergic reactions to non-pre-packed foods and to investigate whether staff in bakery shops were able to give advice regarding a safe product choice. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Occupational skin disease is common and bakery workers are at increased risk of hand dermatitis. AIMS To explore the frequency of, and to identify risk factors for, skin symptoms in a small bakery. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of workers in a small bakery in Scotland, using a self-completed questionnaire regarding skin symptoms over the last 12 months. Additionally, data on s...

An approach to proving higher level properties of distributed protocols is suggested here in which a proof consists of two stages: In the higher-level stage, abstract properties of system executions are assumed and their desired consequences are proved. At the lower-level stage these abstract properties are shown to hold in every execution of the protocol. The paper studies the Bakery Algorithm...

We sought to determine the source of a norovirus outbreak among attendees of 46 weddings taking place during a single weekend. Norovirus-compatible illness was experienced by 332 (39%) of wedding guests surveyed; the outbreak affected up to 2700 persons. Illness was associated with eating wedding cake provided by a bakery common to the weddings (adjusted RR 4.5, P<0.001). A cake requiring direc...

While baker's asthma has been well described, various asthma phenotypes in bakery workers have yet to be characterised. Our study aims to describe the asthma phenotypes in supermarket bakery workers in relation to host risk factors and self-reported exposure to flour dust. A cross-sectional study of 517 supermarket bakery workers in 31 bakeries used a questionnaire, skin prick tests, and specif...

BACKGROUND Low attention to dairy product consumptions and high intake of junk foods and bakery products might be related to high prevalence of chronic diseases because of their fat content and fatty acid composition. OBJECTIVE In this study we investigated the kind and amount of fatty acid content in Iranian junk foods, dairy, and bakery products. MATERIALS AND METHODS Some common brands o...

1) Bakery : Ambient Pizza Bases, Ambient Cakes and Pastries, Ambient Christmas Pudding, Ambient Sponge Puddings, Canned Rice Puddings, Childrens Biscuits, Chilled Breads, Chilled Cakes, Chilled Desserts, Chilled Pizza and Bases, Crackers & Crispbreads, Everyday Biscuits, Fresh/Chilled Pastry, Frozen Bread, Frozen Savoury Bakery, Healthier Biscuits, Morning Goods, Savoury Biscuits, Seasonal Bisc...

PURPOSE Despite the importance of skin exposure, studies of skin symptoms in relation to exposure and respiratory symptoms are rare. The goals of this study were to describe exposure-response relationships for skin symptoms, and to investigate associations between skin and respiratory symptoms in bakery and auto body shop workers. METHODS Data from previous studies of bakery and auto body sho...