Disease relevance of Food Industry

• High profile issues like the development of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the UK and the dioxin contamination of poultry products in Belgium have undermined consumer confidence in the food industry [1].
• Salt--overwhelming evidence but still no action: can a consensus be reached with the food industry? CASH (Consensus Action on Salt and Hypertension) [2].

High impact information on Food Industry

• These developments are important in the food industry where lactic acid bacteria can be exploited as food-grade cell factories [3].
• Aspartame is the artificial sweetener most extensively used as a substitute for glucose or sucrose in the food industry, particularly in soft drinks [4].
• The high reproducibility in subsequent cycles of hybridization/denaturation (by formamide or by heating) points out potential applications of the technique in medical diagnostics, food industry, genomics, and proteomics too [5].
• Sensitivity at low nanomolar concentration, good resolving power and reliability achieved in the experiments is invaluable for monitoring reaction products from enzymatic polysaccharide digestion with numerous applications in agricultural, chemical and food industries [6].
• Benzoyl peroxide (BP), used widely in dermatologic therapy and by the food industry, is considered a tumor promoter in chemically induced skin [7].

Biological context of Food Industry

• Starch hydrolysis products, or dextrins, are widely used throughout the food industry for their functional properties [8].
• The benefits of using lactic acid bacteria in the food chain, both through direct consumption and production of ingredients, are increasingly recognised by the food industry and consumers alike [9].
• Barley alpha-amylase variability influences the quality of barley grain in the brewing, feed and food industries. alpha-Amylase proteins are encoded by multigene families in cereals, and this study focused on the barley Amy32b gene [10].
• The use of peroxyacetic acid (PAA) in the disinfection processes in the food industry or for medical purposes is increasing [11].
• The 2.3 kb resistance plasmid pST94 revealed a new gene (qacG) encoding resistance to benzalkonium chloride (BC), a commonly used quaternary ammonium disinfectant, and the intercalating dye ethidium bromide (Eb) in staphylococci isolated from the food industry [12].

Associations of Food Industry with chemical compounds

• Serum total lipids and cholesterol, electrophoretically determined lipoprotein concentrations, serum pseudocholinesterase and dilute blood clot lysis time were determined in 630 healthy subjects (287 men and 343 women) aged 20-60, working in the food industry [13].
• Trehalose is a disaccharide with a wide range of applications in the food industry [14].
• A food industry perspective on folic acid fortification [15].
• The food industry has been an effective communicator of health and nutrition messages and should be encouraged to raise awareness about the role of folate in NTDs [15].
• TAXI-I (Triticum aestivum xylanase inhibitor I) is a wheat grain protein that inhibits arabinoxylan fragmentation by microbial endo-beta-1,4-xylanases used in the food industry [16].

Gene context of Food Industry

• Heterologous expression of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PGU1 gene in Schizosaccharomyces pombe yields an enzyme with more desirable properties for the food industry [17].
• These non-reverting his3 mutants contain no heterologous sequence, which is essential to make them acceptable for application in the food industry [18].
• Recognising the potential value of applying these techniques in the food industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) initiated a nationally coordinated five-year programme of research into the growth and survival of microorganisms in foods, with the aim of developing a computerised Predictive Microbiology Database in the UK [19].
• Because it is a potent antileukemic agent and a flavor-enhancing agent used in the food industry, many researchers have focused their attention on L-glutaminase [20].
• SUMMARY: These studies suggest that proteins and drugs that inactivate myostatin, or interfere with its binding to its receptor, may be useful for the therapy of wasting and degenerative muscle diseases and for the food industry [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Food Industry

• A cysteine protease, used extensively in the food industry, was purified from germinated wheat Triticum aestivum (cv. Giza 164) grains through a simple reproducible method consisting of extraction, ion exchange chromatography and gel filtration [22].

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