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Food Safety Flash!: 2008-05-04
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Say no to synthetic colouring! Monday, May 5, 2008. Say no to synthetic colouring! Synthetic colourings are being used in food industry extensively. They are commonly found in confectionery products, ice cream, bakery products, cakes, and soft drinks. Foods may seems more colourful and attractive after coated or dyed with those 'rainbows'. However, the long term effect that synthetic colourings jeopardize our body is undeniable! Representatives from other...
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Food Safety
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Rapid LC-MS/MS (liquid-chromatographyâ mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry). Http:/ www.aseanfood.info/Articles/11020409.pdf. Http:/ www.rhodyman.net/rarhodytox.html. Http:/ www.cfsan.fda.gov/ mow/chap44.html. Http:/ cat.inist.fr/? HPLC ( High pressure liquid chromatography). Http:/ www.springerlink.com/content/6112331u10h7187k/. Http:/ books.google.com.sg/books? Http:/ lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:122833. Applied Food Science And Nutrition.
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Food Safety Flash!: The bacteria in our gut – Clostridium Difficile ( C. Diff. )
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. The bacteria in our gut – Clostridium Difficile ( . Sunday, June 1, 2008. The bacteria in our gut – Clostridium Difficile ( C. Diff. ). A gram-positive, anaerobic, and spore-forming rods bacteria which cause the severe infection of colon called pseudomembranous colitis. The illness is characterized by offensive-smelling diarrhea, fever, and aabdominal pain. It can cause toxic megacolon or even fatal. Frequency of occurrence and preventive measures of C...
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FOOD SAFETY
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Monday, March 31, 2008. Me and fresa were assigned to research on how the avian flu is spread around. And I found out a couple of things on the mode of transmission. The wild bird itself can carry the virus but it doesnâ t get sick. Can be spread by saliva, nasal secretions and feces. Can be spread by aerosol via the respiratory tract and breathing in contaminated faeces. Fecal-to-oral transmission is the most common way to spread the virus among birds. Not known if virus can spread from person to person.
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Food Safety Flash!: Grayanotoxin in honey
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Package 2 kick off! Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Grayanotoxin (formerly known as andromedotoxin, acetylandromedol, and rhodotoxin). Nature of acute disease. Honey intoxication caused by the consumption of honey produced from the rhododendrons nectar. Grayanotoxins is the cause of intoxication. Reference: http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food poisoning. Http:/ www.cfsan.fda.gov/ mow/chap44.html. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Food Safety Flash!: 2008-04-20
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Trans-fats linked to breast cancer risk in study. Monday, April 21, 2008. Trans-fats linked to breast cancer risk in study. No trans-fat' label is commonly seen on processed food packaging. Issue related to trans-fat has been a lattest concern of WHO. It's claimed that consumption of trans fat increase risk of getting coronary heart disease by raising 'bad' LDL cholesterol and lowering 'good' HDL cholesterol. New York and California had banned trans-fats ...
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Food Safety Flash!: 2008-05-11
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Health risk associated in star fruit! Thursday, May 15, 2008. Health risk associated in star fruit! Fruits always come along with 'healthy' and 'nutritious' in many people's mind. However, kidney failure patient may fell into a state of unconscious if star fruit is being ingested. This is what happened to a dialysis patient who is hospitalised in Intensive Care Unit after consuming star fruit. The news was found in The Star newspaper.
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Food Safety Flash!: Package 2 kick off!
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Package 2 kick off! Sunday, June 22, 2008. Package 2 kick off! Are all of u free on Sat night? Can we meet at 10pm? Please confirm by this coming thurs 12am if possible. Thx! Meantime, wuld like to highlight the reserch all of us shuld give prior first:. Me: 1Identify toxins found in ice crean containing milk and honey. 2Sources and toxicity of major food toxins.(i.e. Aflatoxin by aspergillus flavus). 2Advantage and disadvantage of GM foods.
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Food Safety Flash!: 2008-06-29
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Sources of major toxin groups and their toxicity. Monday, June 30, 2008. Sources of major toxin groups and their toxicity. Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by filamentous microfungi. Fungi are major plant and insect pathogens. Disease caused by fungi growth on animal hosts called mycoses. Whereas disease caused by exposures to toxic fungal metabolites known as mycotoxicoses which is what we concern mainly in package 2 currently. Generally, my...
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Food Safety Flash!: 2008-04-13
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Food lover. Slow eater. View my complete profile. Food Safety Issue- Botulism. Sunday, April 13, 2008. Food Safety Issue- Botulism. My first time came across this term is during subject FPQA conducted in year 2, knowing that it's related to can food and food safety issue. Recently, I happened to read this article called 'Botulism' in WHO web. Here is the summary of what I learned from the article. In cosmetic field, bacterium Clostridium Botulinum is used to produce Botox, an injection used for clinical ...
