The identification of pork in commercially processed meats is one of the most crucial issues in the food industry because of religious food ethics, medical purposes, and intentional adulteration to decrease production cost. This study therefore aimed to develop a method for the detection of pork adulteration in meat products using primers specific for pig mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA se...

Creative ways must be found to engage both community residents and political leaders around policy and environmental solutions to public health issues. Photovoice is a community-based, participatory approach to documentary photography that provides people with training on photography, ethics, critical discussion, and policy advocacy. Photovoice projects have been implemented across the nation a...

For the past twenty years, some French institutions have appealed to the engineers’ sense of social responsibility: the Conseil national des ingénieurs et scientifiques de France (CNISF), which represents the engineering profession, through its code of ethics (CNISF 1996, 2001), the Commission des titres d’ingénieurs (CTI), the regulatory body of engineering education a in its guidelines (CTI 1...

Hans-Georg Joost*, Michael J. Gibney, Kevin D. Cashman, Ulf Görman, John E. Hesketh, Michael Mueller, Ben van Ommen, Christine M. Williams and John C. Mathers German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114-116, D-14558 Nuthetal, Germany IUNA Trinity College, Centre for Food and Health, St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland IUNA University College Cork, Food ...

This study focuses on food waste generated by households in four Nordic countries: Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Based on existing literature we present (A) comparable data on amounts and monetary value of food waste; (B) explanations for food waste at household level; (C) a number of public and private initiatives at national levels aiming to reduce food waste; and (D) a discussion of ...

The array of ethical issues facing the food industry is extensive. It includes fair and just treatment to food industry employees, especially as disproportionate numbers of minorities take jobs in food processing and food service. Issues of food distribution and hunger continue to be important. In the calendar year 1992, however, these issues pale in comparison to those raised by food safety an...

Urban agriculture is often advanced as a sustainable solution to feed growing urban population, offering number of benefits: improved fresh food access, CO2 absorption, social justice and cohesion among others. Going beyond these direct tangible/objective benefits from agriculture, in this paper we ask: How can the cities teach us about taking care each other natural environment? We use example...