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Active Food Packaging Active food packaging is an advanced packaging technology and plays an important role in food quality and safety. Active packaging is prepared by incorporating active agents into packaging materials and works by absorbing food-derived chemicals or releasing active agents into the surrounding environ...
Hyperspectral microscope imaging for food safety and quality applications Since a hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technology has been introduced in agriculture and food, many researches for food quality and safety assessment were accomplished successfully, mostly with a prism-grating-prism line scan platform. Furthermore, HSI technology has been employed in micro-scale image ...
Perennial forages influence mineral quality in annual cropping systems Background/Questions/Methods
There have been suggestions that agricultural land management could influence food quality but there are limited studies that could elucidate potential connections between crop and soil quality with different land management strategies. A study in Mandan, ND focusing on ...
Pulsed Electric Fields for Pasteurization: Food Safety and Shelf Life Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing is a non-thermal method of food preservation that uses short bursts of electricity to inactivate microbial populations in foods and causes minimal or no detrimental effect on food quality attributes since it preserves foods using minimal heat or without heat. P...
Impacts of clarification techniques on sample constituents and pathogen retention Determination of the microbial content in foods is important not only for safe consumption but also for food quality, value, and yield. There are a variety of molecular techniques currently available for both the identification and quantification of the microbial content within a sample; however, s...
Calcium signaling-mediated plant response to cold stress Low temperatures and freezing have adverse impacts on plant growth, developmental processes, crop productivity and food quality. It is becoming clear that calcium signaling plays a crucial role in conferring cold tolerance in plants. Recent studies have shown how the perception of cold signal regula...
Diet quality effects on honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) mortality in laboratory conditions Poor food quality is likely to be detrimental to the lifespan of Apis mellifera. The objective of this study was to evaluate comparatively the effects of a mainly carbohydrate substitute (‘Pro Winter patty), a pollen substitute (Ultra Bee Dry) (both Mann Lake Ltd. products), and bee bread produced b...