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Nondestructive Testing - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Nondestructive Testing - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

The authors of this book present and review data on non-destructive testing discussing such topics as: a novel non-contacting thermoelectric method for non-destructive detection of material imperfections in metals by magnetic sensing; laser generated ultrasound as a tool for defect detection combined with air-coupled receivers; the photothermal deflection technique; thermal diagnostic testing; and acoustic microscopy.

DKK 890.00
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U.S. Household Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

U.S. Household Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Most U.S. households have consistent, dependable access to enough food for active, healthy living -- they are food secure. But a minority of American households experience food insecurity at times during the year, meaning that their access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources. Food and nutrition assistance programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) increase food security by providing low-income households access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education. This book presents statistics from the survey covering households'' food security, food expenditures, and use of food and nutrition assistance programs in 2012.

DKK 890.00
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International Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

International Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book examines projections of two key determinants of food security: food production and import capacity of the countries. Domestic food production performance plays the most critical role in food security, particularly for regions like Asia and sub-Saharan Africa that depend on grain supplies. Conversely, imports play a significant role for regions like Latin America and North Africa that depend on positive trade terms. To understand how food production and import capacity impact food security, researchers estimated and projected three measures of food security regionally including: the number of food-insecure people in each country, the nutrition gap, and the distribution gap.

DKK 633.00
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Food Away From Home & Food at Home - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Away From Home & Food at Home - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food away from home (FAFH) is a sizeable component of total food consumption and the nutritional intake of U.S. adults and children. FAFH also, therefore, constitutes a large and growing portion of the food budget. In 2009, the annual average household expenditure on FAFH was $2,619 or approximately 41 percent of the food budget for an average U.S. household, compared with $1,320, or approximately 29 percent of the food budget in 1984. Recent findings suggest that FAFH may contribute significantly to obesity and poor dietary quality in the United States. Given the potential significance of FAFH for dietary quality and nutrition, policies designed to influence nutritional outcomes should address the role of FAFH. This book estimates the demand for desegregated FAFH and Food at Home (FAH) products, as elements of an unconditional system of demand equations in a two-stage budgeting process. Statistically significant cross-price relationships, between and within groups of foods, using the first and second stage estimates, underscore the potential usefulness of considering all foods, not just a subset of foods, in evaluating policies targeting nutrition and health outcomes.

DKK 890.00
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Food Aid Policy & Challenges - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Aid Policy & Challenges - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food aid is hard to summarise succinctly due to many related issues, but in general it is about providing food and related assistance to tackle hunger, either in emergency situations, or to help with deeper, longer term hunger alleviation and achieve food security (where people do not have to live in hunger or in fear of starvation). International concessional flows in the form of food or of cash to purchase food in support of food assistance programs. The tying of food aid with conditions that benefit the donor has been one of the reasons food aid has not been effective, and criticised for benefiting multinational food companies and donor nations more than recipients. Food aid constituted over 20% of global aid flows in the 1960s, but is now less than 5%. Yet, it is still important because of the prevalence of world hunger and the increase in food emergencies in the past decade. The decline of food aid, as well as the way in which it is delivered and used, are therefore of importance.

DKK 890.00
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Federal Food Safety Working Group - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Federal Food Safety Working Group - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

American consumers deserve to trust the safety of the food they purchase for themselves and their families. While we enjoy one of the safest food supplies in the world, it requires constant monitoring. We need to be able to rapidly identify and address risks to our food supply as a result of new disease agents, new food technologies, changes in U.S. demographic and dietary patterns, and an abundance of food imports resulting from an increasingly globalised food supply. The federal government has taken important steps to protect an increasingly complex food supply. In March 2009, President Obama created the Food Safety Working Group (FSWG), a central coordinating mechanism for the federal government''s food safety activities that is led by the Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA. This book provides an overview of the progress and assessments of the Federal Food Safety Working Group with a focus on results oriented goals and performance measures for food safety oversight.

DKK 890.00
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Food Insecurity - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Insecurity - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as uncertainty of having, or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of their members because of insufficient money or other resources for food at times during the year. This book discusses patterns, prevalence and risk factors of food insecurity. Chapter One synthesizes the current literature on the prevalence, contributing factors and, the consequences of food insecurity in the United States; and presents a model framework to demonstrate the intersection of these consequences with health in vulnerable populations, as well as the implications for primary health care. Chapter Two explores why it is important for healthcare professionals to learn about food insecurity. Chapter Three commences with a brief description of the concepts and measurements of food insecurity, and presents the burden of food insecurity among the general population, and among HIV- infected, and HIV-affected populations. Chapter Four studies markets, methods, and options for improving safety and supply security of artisanally fished omena in Lake Victoria in Kenya.

DKK 820.00
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Food Safety at Home - Mojca Jevsnik - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Safety at Home - Mojca Jevsnik - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Due to a number of food-related incidents and reported outbreaks world-wide, food quality and food safety have become a hot topic in everyday life. But risk perception research indicates that average people perceive risks differently from experts. Although outbreaks of food poisoning are usually well-documented in the media, there is very little attention paid to the outbreaks which occur as consequence of improper food handling at home. Consumers in everyday life often do not respect basic principles of food safety and as such, at the end of food supply chain, present risk for themselves and their near relatives and friends. Several studies highlighted gaps in food safety knowledge and some critical safety violations regarding food handling at home. This book reviews consumer studies and their conclusions concerning food safety knowledge and practices.

DKK 633.00
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Price of Food - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Price of Food - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

U.S. food prices never seem to decline. Higher farm commodity prices and energy costs are the leading factors behind higher food prices. Farm commodity prices have surged because (1) demand for corn for ethanol is competing with food and feed for acreage; (2) global food grain and oilseed supplies are low due to poor harvests; (3) the weak dollar has increased U.S. exports; (4) rising incomes in large, rapidly emerging economies have changed eating habits; and (5) input costs have increased. Higher energy costs increase transportation, processing, and retail costs. Although the cost of commodities such as corn or wheat are a small part of the final retail price of most food products, they have risen enough to have an impact on retail prices. Generally, price changes at the farm level have a diminished impact on retail prices, especially for highly processed products. The impact of higher food prices on U.S. households varies according to income. Lower-income households spend a greater portion of their income on food and feel price hikes more acutely than high-income families. Higher food costs impact domestic food assistance efforts in numerous ways depending on whether benefits are indexed, enrolments are limited, or additional funds are made available. Higher food and transportation costs also reduce the impact of U.S. contributions of food aid under current budget constraints.

DKK 890.00
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Food Loss in the United States - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Loss in the United States - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

"Food loss" represents the amount of edible food, post-harvest, that is available for human consumption but is not consumed for any reason; it includes cooking loss and natural shrinkage (eg: moisture loss); loss from mould, pests, or inadequate climate control; and plate waste. "Food waste" is a component of food loss and occurs when an edible item goes unconsumed, such as food discarded by retailers due to undesirable colour or blemishes and plate waste discarded by consumers. Food loss (particularly the food waste component) is becoming an increasingly important topic both domestically and internationally. Better estimates of the amount and value of food loss, including food waste, could help serve as quantitative baselines for policymakers and the food industry to set targets and develop initiatives, legislation, or policies to minimise food waste, conserve resources, and improve human nutrition. Reducing food loss would likely reduce food prices in the United States and the rest of the world, though the effects depend on the nature of supply, including import and export considerations. This book provides an estimated amount, value, and caloric value of post-harvest food losses at the retail and consumer level in the United States. It also discusses supermarket loss estimates for fresh fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, and seafood and their use in the ERD loss-adjusted food availability data.

DKK 890.00
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Food Allergy - Alexander K C Leung - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Allergy - Alexander K C Leung - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food allergy is an adverse reaction resulting from an inappropriate immunological response to a food antigen. It usually presents itself as a multi-system involvement. Definitive treatment of food allergy is strict elimination of the offending food from the diet. Symptomatic reactivity to food allergens is generally very specific, and patients rarely react to more than one food in a botanical or animal species. If elimination diets are prescribed, care must be taken to ensure that they are palatable and nutritionally adequate. Patients must have a good knowledge of foods containing the allergen and must be taught to scrutinise the labels of all packaged food carefully. This book examines the effects of food allergies, as well as the various treatments that are available for this condition.

DKK 538.00
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Comparisons in Household Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Comparisons in Household Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book provides an overview of research in the study of household food security in the United States and India. An estimated 85.1 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2011, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.9 percent) were food insecure, meaning that the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food. Comparatively, this book provides a quantitative assessment of food security using a large household-level expenditure survey conducted by the Government of India during 2004/2005. The analysis tests the impact of several key assumptions required to estimate actual calories consumed from the expenditure data.

DKK 890.00
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Plant Genetic Resources & Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Plant Genetic Resources & Food Security - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA) serve as the raw material used by plant breeders and farmers to create new crop varieties. As such, they are viewed by many as the foundation for modern agriculture and as essential for achieving global food security. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than three-quarters of the increased crop productivity of the past 30 years is the result of plant breeding, and that future global food security depends to a large extent on the continued improvement of food crops. This book explores the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture which provides a general framework for conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources.

DKK 633.00
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Food Fraud & Adulterated Ingredients - Darrell T Braden - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Fraud & Adulterated Ingredients - Darrell T Braden - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food fraud, or the act of defrauding buyers of food or ingredients for economic gain -- whether they be consumers or food manufacturers, retailers, and importers -- has vexed the food industry throughout history. Some of the earliest reported cases of food fraud, dating back thousands of years, involved olive oil, tea, wine, and spices. These products continue to be associated with fraud, along with some other foods. Although the vast majority of fraud incidents do not pose a public health risk, some cases have resulted in actual or potential public health risks. This book provides an overview of issues pertaining to food fraud and "economically motivated adulteration" or EMA, a category within food fraud. The book also examines the approaches that FDA uses to detect and prevent economic adulteration of food and medical products and the challenges FDA faces in detecting and preventing economic adulteration and views of stakeholders on options for FDA to enhance its efforts to address economic adulteration.

DKK 890.00
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Melamine & Other Problematic Food Carcinogens - Viroj Wiwanitkit - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Melamine & Other Problematic Food Carcinogens - Viroj Wiwanitkit - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food contamination and carcinogenesis are of great public interest. The present situation concerning melamine contamination in China has become a wakeup call to nations around the world. It is time to be extremely concerned with food safety. The data on food contamination and carcinogenesis is useful and must be systematised collected. This data can be a reference in medical and biological science. In this book, important information concerning food contamination relating to carcinogenesis is presented and discussed.

DKK 534.00
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Food Packaging and Preservation - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Packaging and Preservation - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Packaging and Preservation: Techniques, Applications and Technology begins by presenting recent advances in the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry determination of organic food-packaging contaminants. Coverage of all kind of applications is beyond the scope of the present contribution, so the authors focus on the most relevant applications published including sample treatment, determination and confirmation strategies, as well as the use of high resolution mass spectrometry techniques. Following this, the authors aim to summon recent advances in food applications of bio-sourced active films including the aspects that limit their use, strategies for their properties improvement and suggestions for further researches. This volume provides an overview on food packaging material based on chitosan and chitosan derivatives with antimicrobial properties in order to achieve functional systems able to be used as active packaging materials. Additionally, it examines the specific issues related to eco-friendly biopolymer nanocomposites from bacterial cellulose and biopolyesters as a sustainable alternative for food plastic packaging. The use of biopolymer films formulation means reducing food waste which could bring about both environmental and economic benefits. In closing, a study is presented with the goal of ascertaining the effectiveness of low density polyethylene (LDPE) film incorporated with garlic oil for inhibition of food pathogen, Bacillus cereus. The blown film extrusion method was applied to produce film samples added with garlic oil of 2 wt%, 4 wt%, 6 wt% and 8 wt% as well as samples with 0 wt% which served as control throughout the study.

DKK 820.00
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Away-From-Home Food & Diet Quality - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Away-From-Home Food & Diet Quality - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Among children aged 6 to 18 years, away-from-home foods are most likely to come from fast food outlets, restaurants and schools. Increased consumption of such foods may be a cause of being overweight, or it may just be correlated with other factors that increase the risk of being overweight, such as individual food preferences and access to myriad foot outlets. Consumption of caloric sweetened beverages, which is associated with both overweight and eating out, may contribute to the effects of away-from-home foods on caloric intake and diet quality. This new book examines the effects of both commercially prepared food away from home and all food from school on the diets of children.

DKK 494.00
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The Food and Beverage Industry - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Food and Beverage Industry - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

The book opens with an exploration of the role of behavioural aspects linked to neophobia and neophilia towards new products and technologies used in the food sector, including faster and more efficient production techniques, new processing technologies, as well as new food packaging materials and technologies. The author depicts some applications of nanotechnology in the food supply chain, the corresponding risks involved, and how the consumer perceives them. In the closing study, 117 alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available to consumers in the city of Campinas-SP, Brazil, were evaluated in relation to the use of additives considering the information declared on their labels.

DKK 624.00
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Developments in High-Pressure Food Processing - Carl J Schaschke - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Developments in High-Pressure Food Processing - Carl J Schaschke - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the developments made in the processing of foods using high pressure. Consumers generally expect the food to be of a high quality, minimally processed, natural, additive-free, high in nutritional value as well as safe to eat. High Pressure processing is an alternative to thermal processing which can destroy harmful micro-organisms rendering the food safe to eat. As a way of minimally processing food, it has the potential to preserve the quality of foods in many cases and even be responsible for producing new textures and properties. The effect of high pressure on the molecular structure of food proteins is to change their functional properties in surprising and often useful ways. This book discusses how using high pressure instead of heat is to preserve and even improve food quality in terms of taste, flavour, texture and colour.

DKK 534.00
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Root Causes of the Food Crisis - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Root Causes of the Food Crisis - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Rapid annual population growth has led to declining per-capita food production and consumption levels and incomes have not risen fast enough to permit market imports to offset the decline. More alarming, the prognosis for the immediate future is quite bleak. The recent food crisis has again drawn attention to the African tragedy and exposed the fragility of sub-Saharan agricultural and economic progress. Though some of the effects are no longer visible, the food crisis is still a sword of Damocles hanging over Africa''s head. Africa has experienced food crisis in the past and there is no reason to believe that there will be no more food crisis in the future, for its root causes have not been addressed: technological progress and productivity growth. This book explores the missing links in the technology transfer segment of the innovation-diffusion-utilisation complex. The text also critically reviews the current state of knowledge and research, examines the main drivers of technology adoption in African agriculture, and explores the causes of success and failure in technology dissemination.

DKK 1132.00
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Food Prices, Discount Stores & Private Labels - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food Prices, Discount Stores & Private Labels - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Food prices vary across different parts of the United States. One factor that may lead to differences in food prices is the types of stores in a given market or neighborhood. Nontraditional discount retailers, including supercentres, mass merchandisers, wholesale club stores, and dollar stores, have gained a substantial portion of the retail food market over the past 15 years. Previous studies have shown that prices for some items are lower in non-traditional than in traditional stores. But those earlier studies were generally limited in the number of items compared, the detail level of comparison, and the geographic areas studied. This book compares prices for a wide range of foods at a finer level of detail than earlier studies, at both the national and geographic market levels, in order to quantify the difference in food prices across store formats. Also discussed is the relationship between private label and national brand product prices and in-store promotions.

DKK 885.00
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Synbiotic Yoghurt -- A Smart Gut Food - Kasipathy Kailasapathy - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Synbiotic Yoghurt -- A Smart Gut Food - Kasipathy Kailasapathy - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fermented foods are one of the indispensable components of dietary culture in every community in the world. Although there are numerous fermented milk foods produced in the world, the simple and humble yoghurt has evolved significantly from a basic fermented product to a more sophisticated functional and therapeutic food. It is not an exaggeration to say that this simple food in its recent years of evolution has taken over milk as a perfect food. The recent surge in the popularity of yoghurts stems from not only its pleasant, aromatic flavour and its many variations of sweetened and fruit types and beverages, but also its increasing reputation as a functional and therapeutic food. This book provides a detailed overview of the current development in the evolution of synbiotic yoghurts in relation to its production, technology and applications.

DKK 881.00
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