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Research Status And Progress Of Ultra-Low Temperature Refrigeration Plant, Guo Yaojun, Xie Jing, Zhu Shixin, Wang Jinfeng, Tang Yuanrui Feb 2015

Research Status And Progress Of Ultra-Low Temperature Refrigeration Plant, Guo Yaojun, Xie Jing, Zhu Shixin, Wang Jinfeng, Tang Yuanrui

Food and Machinery

Ultralow temperature of －40 ℃～－80 ℃ is mainly used in the fields such as food processing, petrochemical industry, biological pharmacy and scientific experiments. The ultralow temperature refrigeration system and the research progress with refrigerant and compressor were introduced. Based on the comparison with the current research at home and abroad. the future development of ultra-low temperature refrigeration unit can be optimized from the auto-cascade refrigeration system, and the natural refrigerants as a substitute can also be concerned, further studies for the compressor inverter technology and other aspects of CO2 compressors’ performance.

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Fingerprint Analysis Technology And Its Application In Food, Wu Shuai, Lei Sheng, Yang Xihong, Gao Qian, Cheng Dongwei, Zhang Ling, Zhao Wei, Zhang Tiandong, Xie Wancui Feb 2015

Fingerprint Analysis Technology And Its Application In Food, Wu Shuai, Lei Sheng, Yang Xihong, Gao Qian, Cheng Dongwei, Zhang Ling, Zhao Wei, Zhang Tiandong, Xie Wancui

Food and Machinery

Fingerprinting technology is a kind of technique which is based on certain quality characteristics of sample by means of the fingerprint analysis methods (such as: DNA fingerprint, metabolic fingerprint, isotope fingerprints, odor fingerprint, fingerprint spectrum, etc.) to obtain a series of characteristic data and build models to get a technique for statistics and classification. and It becomes a hot spot of food testing technology research and future development trend for the advantages of rapid, accurate, sensitive ,and so on. It is described on the principle of all kinds of fingerprinting technology and application, and development trends, especially in the food …

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Research Progress Of Health Functions Of Wheat Bran, Du Zhenya, Chen Fusheng, Bu Guanhao Feb 2015

Research Progress Of Health Functions Of Wheat Bran, Du Zhenya, Chen Fusheng, Bu Guanhao

Food and Machinery

As one of the important dietary fiber source, wheat bran contains various active polysaccharides, phenolic compounds and others physiologically active substances, which plays an important role in human health. Mainly introduced and prospected the function of wheat bran in relieving constipation, colon cancer, diabetes and other.

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Application Of Calcium In Fruit And Vegetable Industry, Yu Hongguo, Chen Fusheng, Lai Shaojuan, Zhang Lifen Feb 2015

Application Of Calcium In Fruit And Vegetable Industry, Yu Hongguo, Chen Fusheng, Lai Shaojuan, Zhang Lifen

Food and Machinery

As an important fruit elements of the cell wall, calcium is also an important component of the plasma membrane.It plays an important role for the growth and development of fruits and vegetables, and also involved in regulating a variety of physiological processes, improve fruit quality. In the production and processing,spraying calcium fertilizer before harvest can improve the quality of fruits and vegetables; postharvest calcium treatment can also prolong its storage period, maintain good quality, reduce the loss of fruits and vegetables after the harvest.

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Progress On Aflatoxin Removing Technique, Cao Ming, Fan Mingtao Feb 2015

Progress On Aflatoxin Removing Technique, Cao Ming, Fan Mingtao

Food and Machinery

Aflatoxin B1 is the best toxicity and carcinogenicity in the aflatoxin, and it is listed inⅠA level carcinogens by international tumor research institutes. Recently, it becomes the hot spot on how to get a method with high efficient, safe for aflatoxin removing. Meanwhile, summarizes the technologies for aflatoxin removing by physical, chemical and biological methods in this paper, including physical adsorption, extrusion, irradiation, microwave degradation, ozone degradation, ammonia fumigation, biological adsorption, biodegradable etc.. Moreover, the development of aflatoxin B1 removing is also prospected.

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The Legal Norms Of Food Safety Supervision By The Media, Li Xiaohua Feb 2015

The Legal Norms Of Food Safety Supervision By The Media, Li Xiaohua

Food and Machinery

The role of media supervision on food safety is enhanced increasingly. However, media reports on food safety in many cases exist problems of not objectively, not timely, flaws in processing mode and etc.. In order to solve these problems, analyze the reasons there must be generated, the causes of the corresponding problem from the perspective of legal norm, and for these reasons, pointed out that the state should be clear media food safety supervision power in legal norm exists, the establishment of legal accountability mechanism of malicious false reports, legal segregation mechanism of ethics bad media practitioners and the establishment …

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Comparative Studies Of Legal Regulation Of Genetically Modified Food And Its Inspiration, Chen Yang Feb 2015

Comparative Studies Of Legal Regulation Of Genetically Modified Food And Its Inspiration, Chen Yang

Food and Machinery

GM food's safety is controversial since its birth. The USA and the EU gives us many experiences such as the fundamental ideas of regulation, the subject of supervision, identification system, and legislative regulation and so on. It's necessary to make a sound system of laws and regulations to guard GM food as well as a reform of supervision system of GM food. Besides, It should be optimized that the institutional settings and construct an international coordination mechanism of GM food.

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Teaching Reform And Practice Of Food Nutrition Based On Constructivism, Nie Xiaohua, Sun Peilong, He Jinzhe, Meng Xianghe Feb 2015

Teaching Reform And Practice Of Food Nutrition Based On Constructivism, Nie Xiaohua, Sun Peilong, He Jinzhe, Meng Xianghe

Food and Machinery

Food nutrition is an important foundation course of food science and engineering. In order to improve the teaching quality, the teaching reform and practice was developed on the basis of the content, style and practice by using constructivism theory. It stimulated the students’ subjective initiative and practice competence, and. good teaching effect has been received.

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Some Discussions On Improving Path Of China's Food Safety Supervision Mechanism, He Li Feb 2015

Some Discussions On Improving Path Of China's Food Safety Supervision Mechanism, He Li

Food and Machinery

The food safety law of the People's Republic of China (revised draft) will use the most stringent regulations, the supervision of food safety but not edible agricultural products should be brought into the draft regulation scope, and it certainly gave food regulatory loopholes. Edible agricultural products should be brought into the draft regulation, there is no obstacle on the legislation, but so will bring the government law enforcement ability insufficiency, the rise in the cost of law enforcement, law enforcement measures defects and a series of practical problems. Therefore, the key to solve the problem lies not in the legislation, …

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Effects Of Electrostatic Potentials On Stalk Rate, Yang Yongfa, Zhang Ying, Chen Shuai Feb 2015

Effects Of Electrostatic Potentials On Stalk Rate, Yang Yongfa, Zhang Ying, Chen Shuai

Food and Machinery

Introduces a electrostatic potential test system designed by LabVIEW, which had been done 7 electrostatic potential test experiments for 6 factors of electrostatic potential on the surface of electrostatic stalk extractors frictional roller, and improve overall electrostatic potential of the optimal solution is given. When drum material is synthetic rubber, roller rotation speed is 38 r/min, counter weight is 10.5 kg, friction material is silk, the humidity is controlled below 60%, the overall electrostatic potential and the stalk rate is the highest.

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Effect Of Temperature On Maillard Reaction And Antioxidant Activity Of The Maillard Reaction Products Derived From Yellow Stripe Trevally(Selaroides Leptolepis) Fish Hydrolysates, Lu Bin, Wang Zhonghe, Wang Jun, Zou Min, Fu Li Feb 2015

Effect Of Temperature On Maillard Reaction And Antioxidant Activity Of The Maillard Reaction Products Derived From Yellow Stripe Trevally(Selaroides Leptolepis) Fish Hydrolysates, Lu Bin, Wang Zhonghe, Wang Jun, Zou Min, Fu Li

Food and Machinery

The pH value, intermediate (A294nm), browning intensity (A420nm), free amino group content and antioxidant activity as detection index. The effect of temperature(100 ℃, 120 ℃) on Maillard reaction and antioxidant activity of the Maillard reaction products(MRPs) derived from yellow stripe trevally(Selaroides leptolepis) fish protein hydrolysates was investigated. The results were as follows: when reaction temperature was 120 ℃, the pH value, intermediate (A294nm), browning intensity (A420nm) and free amino group content of the systems during the Maillard reaction were more significant, and the reducing power and DPPH radical …

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Discrimination Of Soup-Stock By Electronic Tongue, Cao Zhongwen, Zhan Gxiaoyan, Zhou Xiaoyan Feb 2015

Discrimination Of Soup-Stock By Electronic Tongue, Cao Zhongwen, Zhan Gxiaoyan, Zhou Xiaoyan

Food and Machinery

Chicken soup and mixed samples with artificial blending were tested by electronic tongue and the response signals were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA), discriminant factor analysis (DFA) and partial least-squares analysis (PLS). Chicken soup and artificial blended soup were successfully identified by electronic tongue. Moreover, a high regression coefficient, R2=0.958 71, between instrumental response signal and mixed ratio of chicken soup and artificial blended soup was found for the established PLS model with a prediction error below 15%.This study demonstrates that electronic tongue is applicable for soup discrimination.

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Releasing Regular Of Flavor Compounds During Enzymolysis Of Mussel (Mytilus Edulis) And Structure Of The Flavor Peptides, Zhao Yang, Chen Haihua, Wang Yusheng, Liu Zhaolong, Zhao Chunxia Feb 2015

Releasing Regular Of Flavor Compounds During Enzymolysis Of Mussel (Mytilus Edulis) And Structure Of The Flavor Peptides, Zhao Yang, Chen Haihua, Wang Yusheng, Liu Zhaolong, Zhao Chunxia

Food and Machinery

Releasing regular of flavor compounds during enzymolysis of mussel (Mytilus edulis) protein and the structure of seafood flavor peptides were investigated with amino acid analysis, ultrafiltration, gelchromatography, RP—HPLC, and UHR—Q—TOF. The results indicated that, during enzymolysis, molecular weight of peptides reduced. The amount of free flavor amino acid and TMA increased. The amount of peptidyl flavor amino acids increased then decreased. It’s advantageous for peptides with low molecular weight to be released at low pH conditions. The total carbohydrate varied little. The total acid reached the maximum in 1 h and at 50 ℃, respectively. Under the conditions that enzymolysis …

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Determination Of Imibenconazole In Fruits And Vegetables By Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry, Chen Jingchun, Chen Sheng, He Yabin, Zheng Xiaoping Feb 2015

Determination Of Imibenconazole In Fruits And Vegetables By Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry, Chen Jingchun, Chen Sheng, He Yabin, Zheng Xiaoping

Food and Machinery

The sample was purifid by solid phase extraction column. A simple, fast, accurate method for determination of Imibenconazole in fruits and vegetables was developed by ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry (UPLC—MS—MS). The linear range of the method is from 1.0 μg/L to 100 μg/L ，and the correlation coefficients were 0.998 7～0.999 6, and the detection limit is 1.0 μg/kg. The proposed method has high sensitivity and good reproducibility for determining Imibenconazole.

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Analysis Of Unsafe Factors In Baked Craft Of Betel Nuts, Kang Xiaoning, Ji Jianbang, Li Liang Feb 2015

Analysis Of Unsafe Factors In Baked Craft Of Betel Nuts, Kang Xiaoning, Ji Jianbang, Li Liang

Food and Machinery

The unsafe factors in the products of traditional craft baked betel nuts, betel improved oven baked dry and edible betel nut pieces were analyzed. The results showed that benzopyrene were the major effect factors on the food safety of Betel nut products. And the baked methods of betel nuts had greatly influence on the content of benzopyren. An overdose of benzopyrene was found in these baked betel nuts baked by traditional ways, such as traditional smoked roasting ovens, traditional hot wind roasting ovens. However, taking the baked Betel nuts as materials to manufacture products, the content of benzopyrene in these …

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Research On Quality Changes And Spoilage Mechanism Of Leisure Soybean Food During Storage, Jiang Qionghua, Zhao Liangzhong, Li Huaqiang, Bu Yufang Feb 2015

Research On Quality Changes And Spoilage Mechanism Of Leisure Soybean Food During Storage, Jiang Qionghua, Zhao Liangzhong, Li Huaqiang, Bu Yufang

Food and Machinery

Investigated the changing of components in leisure soybean food during storage by using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR),and identified the contribution from these components respectively, and discussed the corruption mechanism from the microscopic view. The results indicated that leisure soybean food had three kinds of components mobility-T21,T22,T23,corresponded bound water, free water and fat, respectively. By analyzing the component contents, the first three months was the best in quality for leisure soybeans. The oxidative rancidity of oil produced peroxide led to the oxidant of amino-acid residue, and transformed the bound water in reticulate structure into free …

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Analysis Of Nutritional And Bioactive Components Of Solid-State Fermented Substrate Of Isaria Cicadae, Yu Shijun, Chai Xinyi, Fan Meizhen Feb 2015

Analysis Of Nutritional And Bioactive Components Of Solid-State Fermented Substrate Of Isaria Cicadae, Yu Shijun, Chai Xinyi, Fan Meizhen

Food and Machinery

In the present work, the nutritional and bioactive components of the solid-state fermented substrate of I. cicadae were studied. And the results indicated that the contents of protein, total sugar and fat acid were 16.17%, 38.87% and 1.43%, respectively. The unsaturated fat acid content was 1.18%. The amino acid profile was analyzed and lysine was the first restrictive amino acid in the FAO/WHO model. The contents of vitamin E and C were 1 833 mg/kg and 239 mg/kg, respectively. Furthermore, the fermented substrate contained adenosine, mannitol and polysaccharide. This work provided basic information for the further development of Fermented Substrate …

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Identification Andoptimization Of Fermentation Conditions For Symbiotic And Epiphyte Bacterium Dnc2 From Strongylocentrotus Intermedius, Li Zhen, Zhang Fuyun, Li Wei, Zhao Yu, Lu Hang Feb 2015

Identification Andoptimization Of Fermentation Conditions For Symbiotic And Epiphyte Bacterium Dnc2 From Strongylocentrotus Intermedius, Li Zhen, Zhang Fuyun, Li Wei, Zhao Yu, Lu Hang

Food and Machinery

To explore the Symbiotic and Epiphyte bacterium DNC2 from Strongylocentrotus intermedius, the morphological, biochemical and physiological characteristics of the strain were researched and the 16S rDNA sequences of it were analyzed. The univariate experiment and orthogonal test of L16(45) were carried out to optimize the fermentation conditions for antibacterial activity. Symbiotic and Epiphyte bacterium DNC2 was identified as Bacillus subtilis. The optimal fermentation conditions were obtained as fermentation at 35 ℃ for 120 h with initial pH 9, and the optimum fermentation medium was determined as beef extract 0.3% and peptone 0.6%. The optimized …

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Optimization On Ultrasonic Extraction Technology Of Tannin From Gallnut, Li Qianyun, Zhang Shuangling, Zhou Guoyan Feb 2015

Optimization On Ultrasonic Extraction Technology Of Tannin From Gallnut, Li Qianyun, Zhang Shuangling, Zhou Guoyan

Food and Machinery

Gallic tannins have extensive bioactivities functions，including antioxidant，antitumor and anticancer. In order to investigate the extraction technology of Chinese gallnut tannin by ultrasonic, the effect factors，including the volume fraction of HCl , the volume fraction of ethanol, ultrasonic temperature and the ratio of material were optimized through orthogonal tests L9（34）on the basis of single factor experiment . The result showed the optimal extracting conditions were as follows: hydrochloric acid volume fraction 1.0%, ethanol volume fraction 50%, ultrasonic temperature 40 ℃, the ratio of material to liquid was 1∶30(m∶V). Under the optimal conditions，the extraction rate of Chinese gallnut …

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Experience And Enlightenment Of Food Safety Supervision In United States And The European Union, Gu Guiqin Feb 2015

Experience And Enlightenment Of Food Safety Supervision In United States And The European Union, Gu Guiqin

Food and Machinery

In recent years, food safety accidents arise endlessly in our country, and it exposed the safety supervision system in our country is still need further perfection. Some countries and regions outside of our country started exploration and practice in the field of food safety regulation earlier, and many of them have accumulated rich experience. The United States, the European Union and other countries and regions in the food regulatory reforms, food safety information transparency, security regulatory legislation food authentication, etc., has accumulated rich experience. Our country can analyze their food safety regulatory experience and summarize to our enlightenment, further reflection …

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Antioxidant Activity Of Hydrolysate From Corn Glutelin By Protamex, Liu Yue, Liu Xiaolan, Zheng Xiqun, Zhou Limin Feb 2015

Antioxidant Activity Of Hydrolysate From Corn Glutelin By Protamex, Liu Yue, Liu Xiaolan, Zheng Xiqun, Zhou Limin

Food and Machinery

The molecular weight distribution and antioxidative activities of corn glutelin hydrolysate by Protamex during hydrolysis process, corn glutelin as raw material, were investigated. The results showed that the highest antioxidant activities was exhibited at the hydrolysis time of 120 min, with molecular weight distribution among 6 511.51~307.32 Da and peptides component 94.36%. DPPH radical scavenging activity, superoxide anion scavenging activity, hydroxyl radical scavenging activity, reducing power and Fe2+-chelating activity of hydrolysate were 58.86%, 82.64%, 37.21%, 0.236 and 29.92%, respectively.

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Optimization On Technology Of Potato Yogurt, Wu Jianmin, Liu Shaojun, Shao Songlin Feb 2015

Optimization On Technology Of Potato Yogurt, Wu Jianmin, Liu Shaojun, Shao Songlin

Food and Machinery

To reseach technology of the potato yogurt，the technology and formulation of potato yogurt inoculation of the ferment,fermentation time,temperature and other parameters were studied. The optimum technological conditions of potato yogurt were optimized.The optimum formulation was as followed: potato juice to milk 20∶70(V∶V), sugar 4%(m/V), Starter cultures 8%（V/V）, ferment time 6 h.

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Study On Stability Of Rice Beverage, Guo Jieli, Lu Shengmin, Xing Jianrong, Chen Jianbing, Tu Kang Feb 2015

Study On Stability Of Rice Beverage, Guo Jieli, Lu Shengmin, Xing Jianrong, Chen Jianbing, Tu Kang

Food and Machinery

Eleven kinds of different stabilizers and emulsifiers were applied to the research on the stability of rice beverage. Among which, four kinds with better stability effect were selected and used in the orthogonal test to improve the stability of rice beverage. The results indicated that the rice beverage had the highest stability with its precipitation rate 0.87% only and without stratification occurred after 3 weeks at room temperature when the amount of pectin, xanthan gum and monoglyceride were added 0.60%, 0.165% and 0.60% respectively. In addition, xanthan gum and pectin had significant（P<0.01 and P<0.05, respectively）, while monoglyceride and Span 40 did not have significant（P>0.05）effect on the stability of rice beverage. Comparatively, …

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Advances In Heat And Mass Transfer Models Of Microwave Freeze-Drying, Yan Shasha, Duan Xu, Ren Guangyue, Liu Wei Feb 2015

Advances In Heat And Mass Transfer Models Of Microwave Freeze-Drying, Yan Shasha, Duan Xu, Ren Guangyue, Liu Wei

Food and Machinery

Microwave freeze-drying is a rapid dehydration technique that can be applied to certain foods, particularly to seafoods, and fruits and vegetables. MFD involves much less drying time and energy consumption than conventional freeze-drying methods, and also improves product quality. The article presents the principles of microwave freeze-drying, the research progress of heat and mass transfer mathematical simulation at home and abroad, the detection technology online, and the dielectric properties of materials taken into account in the drying process simulation. After analyzing the problems, the trend of numerical simulation of freeze-drying is predicted.

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A Dna Mini-Barcoding System For Authentication Of Processed Fish Products, Shadi Shokralla, Rosalee S. Hellberg, Sara M. Handy, Ian King, Mehrdad Hajibabaei Jan 2015

A Dna Mini-Barcoding System For Authentication Of Processed Fish Products, Shadi Shokralla, Rosalee S. Hellberg, Sara M. Handy, Ian King, Mehrdad Hajibabaei

Food Science Faculty Articles and Research

Species substitution is a form of seafood fraud for the purpose of economic gain. DNA barcoding utilizes species-specific DNA sequence information for specimen identification. Previous work has established the usability of short DNA sequences—mini-barcodes—for identification of specimens harboring degraded DNA. This study aims at establishing a DNA mini-barcoding system for all fish species commonly used in processed fish products in North America. Six mini-barcode primer pairs targeting short (127–314 bp) fragments of the cytochrome c oxidase I (CO1) DNA barcode region were developed by examining over 8,000 DNA barcodes from species in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration …

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Efficacy Of Ultraviolet Radiation To Control Lactic Acid Bacteria In Wine Must, Brian D. Williams Jan 2015

Efficacy Of Ultraviolet Radiation To Control Lactic Acid Bacteria In Wine Must, Brian D. Williams

All Master's Theses

The use of shortwave ultraviolet (UVc) radiation to control lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in wine production was studied. A simulated wine sterilizer was built using a commercially sourced ultraviolet (UV) sterilizer commonly used in aquariums and ponds. After growing cultures in test tubes, samples of five different species of LAB were introduced into white grape juice adjusted for brix and pH to match that of wine must commonly found in the Yakima Valley American Viticultural Area. The mixture was then agitated and allowed time to evenly distribute the bacteria throughout the juice. The juice was sent through the …

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Biosafety: Evaluation And Regulation Of Genetically Modified (Gm) Crops In The United States, Richard E. Goodman Oct 2014

Biosafety: Evaluation And Regulation Of Genetically Modified (Gm) Crops In The United States, Richard E. Goodman

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

This review of the safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) crops is focused primarily on the process and progress in the United States (US). It reviews the development of the safety evaluation process from the Asilomar conference in 1975 considering issues relevant to recombinant DNA technology, to discussions between the US government, academic and industrial scientists between 1984 and 1994 when the first GM crops were being field tested and evaluated commercial release for food and feed production. International guidelines were also reviewed for consistency with the US system. The overall process includes consideration of information relating to history of …

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生物安全:美国转基因作物的评价与管理, Richard E. Goodman Sep 2014

生物安全:美国转基因作物的评价与管理, Richard E. Goodman

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

本篇综述侧重于介绍美国本土的转基因作物安全评价的过程和进展。回顾了安全评价程序的建 立过程,从1975年阿西洛马(Asilomar)会议上关于重组DNA技术的问题,自1984-1994年间第一例转基因作 物进行田间试验到评估作为食物和饲料商业化生产时,美国政府、学术界和产业界科学家之间的讨论。此外,一 同回顾国际上的指南与美国的系统。整体过程还要考虑人类接触基因来源和表达蛋白是否有安全的或不安全 的历史。食用蛋白安全性首要考虑因素为某些消费者是否对其过敏或者拥有转基因编码蛋白的IgE抗体,或者 转基因食品会诱发乳糜泻,同时考虑表达蛋白的潜在毒性效果和对人或动物营养的影响。在美国,该过程与国 际食品法典委员会的建议是一致的,它是基于科学的并应用合理的假设。迄今为止,没有证据证明在美国获得 批准的转基因作物危害人或动物的健康。评价要考虑遗传和环境上的变化对植物新品种产物的影响,并坚持转 基因植物食品和非转基因相似物种同样安全的评价原则。

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Formation Of Lactalbumin Nanoparticles By Desolvation Method, Menglu Gao, Jozef Kokini, Luis Fernando Maldonado-Mejia Aug 2014

Formation Of Lactalbumin Nanoparticles By Desolvation Method, Menglu Gao, Jozef Kokini, Luis Fernando Maldonado-Mejia

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Protein nanoparticles are ideal carriers for bioactive compounds such as nutraceuticals and drugs because they are biodegradable, less immunogenic and non-toxic and can be nanoparticulated. This study focuses on the desolvation method to form lactalbumin protein nanoparticles. Lactalbumin is soluble in water and insoluble in many organic solvents. Different solvent/non-solvent ratios are evaluated in this research project for the effect they have on the size, PDI and stability of protein nanoparticles. Different methods including sonication and centrifugation were used and compared in terms of their effectiveness to produce small nanoparticles during fabrication of the nanoparticles. Data collected including protein nanoparticles …

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Feeding Alkaline Treated And Processed Crop Residue To Feedlot Cattle, Sarah Jean Peterson Jul 2014

Feeding Alkaline Treated And Processed Crop Residue To Feedlot Cattle, Sarah Jean Peterson

Department of Animal Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Chemical treatment and decreased particle size are methods used to improve digestibility and utilization of the available nutrients in low quality forages. Previous research has indicated that chemically treated corn residue can take the place of corn when included in finishing rations containing distillers grains. Also, decreasing particle size utilizing methods such as pelleting has been shown to improve DMI and ADG. However, limited research has been completed on use of chemical treatment and pelleting in growing and receiving rations. Also, an ideal distillers inclusion has not yet been identified when including alkaline treated stalks in finishing rations. Therefore, a …

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