Background: Children are known to have higher dietary exposure levels to pesticide residues than adults due to higher consumption levels per kilogram bodyweight. Also social concern exists on the effects of these residues in young children, who are growing rapidly. To assess whet...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/6900
Aim: This report presents an overview of trends in dietary patterns and exposure to selected chemicals in children aged 0.5-12 years living in the Netherlands, with the aim to get insight in possible trends in exposure over the last two decades. The compounds included are acrylam...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/6901
Background: Prevention of negative health effects due to pesticide residues and contaminants in food is an important world-wide issue. It has been recognized that especially children may be a potentially vulnerable subgroup in this respect due to their higher consumption levels p...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2014/7653
Stéphane Vidry, Jeljer Hoekstra, Andy Hart, Bernhard Watzl, Hans Verhagen, Katrin Schütte, Alan Boobis & Alessandro Chiodini·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2013
BRAFO, Benefit-Risk Analysis for Foods, was a European Commission project funded within Framework Six as a Specific Support Action and coordinated by ILSI Europe. BRAFO developed a tiered methodology for assessing the benefits and risks of foods and food components, utilising a q...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/7007
Aims: Resistant starch (RS), kinetics of starch digestion, predicted glycemic index (pGI) and nutritional composition were determined in two improved rice varieties from Cameroun. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Canada betwe...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/5096
This review re-examines the studies relating sugar consumption to development of overweight or obesity as identified for the recent revision of the Australian Dietary Guidelines. All studies identified for the initial evidence review that examined sugars added to foods (one syste...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/2749
The study mainly focused on the plants used as food as well as medicine by Kani tribals in Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in Southern Western Ghats, India. An ethnobotanical survey was carried out among the Kani tribals through questionnaires and consultations with age-old an...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/3642
This paper describes an assessment framework (‘decision tree’) to delineate between ‘dietary foods for special medical purposes’ and normal ‘foods’. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority commissioned this work in 2010. The background for the 2010 request was...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/5185
Aims: To pheno- and genotypically characterise Staphylococcus aureus isolated from raw and fermented camel milk from Kenya and Somali for their antibiotic resistance. Methodology: Microdilution assays to determine minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) were done using to 20 di...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/2853
The Food safety knowledge of 608 respondents in Accra was assessed under five food safety themes using a Likert-type scale questionnaire, and Mean Aggregate Score (MAS) for each theme computed. Further, the Mean of the MAS was calculated and used as an index of interpreting overa...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2013/3227