Food: Facts And PrinciplesN. Shakuntala O. Manay
These facts, coupled with the interdisciplinary nature of FAO's work covering a wide range of policy and technical matters related to agricultural (including animal production and health) and fishery production ensure that quality and safety are considered throughout the food chain. The technical ...
About the book Description The Science of Food: An Introduction to Food Science, Nutrition and Microbiology, Second Edition conveys basic scientific facts and principles, necessary for the understanding of food science, nutrition, and microbiology. Organized into 17 chapters, this book begins with a...
TheNutrition Labelling and Education Actof 1990 also makes nutrition labelling mandatory on virtually all packaged foods sold to consumers. In May 2016, theFDAannounced its newNutrition Facts Label for Packaged Foodsto reflect new scientific information, including the link between diet and chronic disea...
So far, we have focused on ethical issues raised by our food system's impact on non-human animals. In this Dish, we turn our attention to the ways in which the food system affects human beings. We first serve some empirical facts about food injustice and the way in which lack of acces...
The research relies on the principles of the production economics that are supplemented by the sustainability approach. The aggregate data are used to provide stylized facts on the shifts in the (environmental) production technology and growth efficiency for the EU countries. Note that growth ...
The regulation of GMOs lies within the framework of a multiplicity of principles and interests at stake, ranging from food security to the fight against hunger and malnutrition to healthy food, sustainable development, biodiversity, and food sovereignty. From a comparative perspective, a circulation of...
View chapterExplore book Risk assessment in hygiene management I.H.Huisman,E. EspadaAventín, inHandbook of Hygiene Control in the Food Industry, 2005 20.5Sources of further information and advice Books ALLI I.,Food quality assurance– Principles and practices,CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2004. ...
improving; easy to understand for producers, buyers and consumers; providing support for individual growers; ensuring understanding of the requirements, documentation and principles; utilizing multiple strategies to reduce knowledge, attitude and behavioral barriers; efficient and inexpensive; and, well-...
8 FOOD AND HEALTH 277 Regulations of the public food environment to improve food choice have long focused on information provision, such as the nutrition facts panel on the side or back of packaged foods, or calorie counts to indicate portion sizes on restaurant menus. In recent years, ...