Sentences with phrase «human food supplies»

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It shows that much more research is needed to uncover what these findings could mean for human food supplies.

This leads directly into a discussion of the spread of soybean rust throughout the world in the late 20th century, with its potential to greatly reduce yields and hence affect human food supplies.

Only 120 cultivated plant species and 14 mammalian and avian species provide 90 percent of human food supply.

They estimate that 19 percent of protein and 10 percent of calories in feed for aquatic species are ultimately made available in the human food supply.

«Obviously what we all want is to get the toxin out of the human food supply,» Cardwell notes, «but in order to incentivize farmers to take on additional cost and operations in their field they have to have a market that values that low toxin level.»

Sundlof noted that the FDA has the same authority over pet food as it does over most of the human food supply.

The impact on the human food supply is also unclear, says H. Scott Hurd, an animal food safety expert with the World Health Organization and the University of Iowa, Ames.

This antibiotic resistance could eventually make its way into hospitals and the human food supply, although experts caution that no link has yet been proved.

«Toxic nanoparticles might be entering human food supply.»

Again, going back to the principle that we are most adapted to eating what our ancesters ate for almost 2 million years, that list of foods obviously did NOT include genetically modified foods, since these «frankenfoods» weren't included in the human food supply until the 1990's.

The plants also contain genes from bacteria that produce a protein that has never been part of the human food supply.

This two - pronged approach to define edible, nondigestible carbohydrates recognizes the diversity of carbohydrates in the human food supply that are not digested: plant cell wall and storage carbohydrates that predomi - nate in foods, carbohydrates contributed by animal foods, and isolated and low molecular weight carbohydrates that occur naturally or have been synthesized or otherwise manufactured.

This dynamic amplifies the concentration of environmental pollution into the human food supply.

Reports of widespread and possibly intentional adulteration of Chinese animal feed with melamine have raised the issue of melamine contamination in the human food supply, both in China and abroad.

Not every food animal that is infected with a potentially harmful pathogen can be detected and rejected from the human food supply, but considering the scale of the project, food inspectors do a heroic job.

«These contaminants, I think, are threatening the human food supply.

Now, a new report says that if we keep cooking the planet, there will be mass starvation on ocean floors and a decrease in the human food supply as well.

Not exact matches

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.

McDonald's (mcd) on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast - food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.

Resolutions address investor concerns around human rights and supply chain accountability, financial practices and risk, health care, food and water sustainability, environmental health, and corporate governance.

Other new questions about environmental issues include large - scale land acquisitions in the supply chains of food companies and related human rights problems.

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

Unlike humans, who can and often do set out to make others suffer, animals are primarily concerned to «protect their territory,» as students of their behavior tell us, or to save their young from attack, or to secure necessary supplies of food for their survival.

The Sustainable Organic Agriculture Action Network (SOAAN) is a think tank that positions Organic Agriculture and its related supply chains as a holistic, sustainable approach to the production of food and fiber for all of human society.

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That being said, regardless of our origins, up until the industrialization of the food supply, less than 100 years ago, humans had successfully subsisted off of an earth based diet of plants, seeds, nuts, fruits, and meat.

Technology was developed to extract dietary oils from seeds that had never been used previously to supply dietary oils in the human food chain, and this caused a boon to corn and soybean crops which could now be used to produce polyunsaturated oils.

Given that the FLW Standard is focused on material no longer in the food supply chain, food that is transferred from one part of the food supply chain to another but is still used for human consumption is outside the scope of the FLW Standard.

Inedible Parts Components associated with a food that, in a particular food supply chain, are not intended to be consumed by humans.

By removing human error from the supply chain, APRIL EYE reduces food waste related to the incorrect date coding of products.

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The earth has limited supplies of natural mineral, energy, water and food resources essential for human survival and maintaining lifestyles.

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about one - third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted in the supply chFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about one - third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted in the supply chfood produced for human consumption is lost or wasted in the supply chain.

Between 12 and 24 months, it can supply one third of your child's energy needs.6 Human milk is a nourishing food for as long as your child drinks it.

The Food and Drug Administration does recommend taking «reasonable steps» to reduce human exposure to BPA in the food supFood and Drug Administration does recommend taking «reasonable steps» to reduce human exposure to BPA in the food supfood supply.

The ability of these locusts to eat the country's food supplies is astonishing — each swarm consumes 2,500 times the average amount of food eaten by humans.

«They harm our water supply they hurt our food industry and they ultimate have a harmful effect on human health.»

A nuisance, but not a danger While often confused with locusts — grasshoppers in a specific swarming phase — cicadas threaten neither humans or their food supplies.

If modified plants escape into the natural environment, they could contaminate water supplies, irreversibly alter wild species, or even enter the human food chain, which nearly happened in 2002.

According to some predictions, climate change caused by human activity could cause mass extinction in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies.

Managing the microbiome instead of pummeling it with antibiotics has produced impressive results in chicken and mice studies, pointing the way not just to future human treatments but also to a healthier food supply.

Although researchers have long suspected the creatures had been brought to the remote isles by humans to provide a steady supply of food, antlers, or skins, the notion they originated in distant lands and were carried there in a sort of Neolithic ark is a surprising twist.

Yet it is vitally important for the global food supply, providing more than 20 percent of the calories and 23 percent of the protein consumed by humans.

But it is hard to ensure that the entire supply chain is safe for human consumption, says Kevin Bachhuber, who founded Big Cricket Farms, as it isn't subject to the same level of scrutiny as food destined for people.

The existential threats could include species extinctions and major threats to human water and food supplies in addition to the health risks posed by exposing over 7 billion people worldwide to deadly heat.

Throughout the leaner epochs of human history, when food supplies were unreliable, the species would not have survived without a way to hoard calories for later use.

In a 2011 study led by UF Food Science and Human Nutrition Professor Sue Percival, 52 healthy adults, age 21 to 41, came to the Gainesville campus, where researchers gave them a four - week supply of dry shiitake mushrooms.

Creating nitrogen - fixing, non-leguminous crops (7 May, p 8) to boost food supply could support an increased human population, only to...