Sentences with phrase «in food chains»

This will involve species different from those involved in food chains in the temperate regions where natural upwelling brings up the nutrients.

Many of the species occupying critical links low in our food chains are being exposed via multiple pathways and by cocktails of chemicals acting together.

We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.

Through boxed text, beautiful and abundant photos, and playful quizzes, the book groups information by such categories as habitat and hunting tactics, emphasizing predators» role in food chains and a healthy ecosystem.

We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.

«However, their unique set of properties does help us more clearly see how different contaminants behave in the environment and in food chains compared to legacy contaminants.»

In waterways, bacteria convert elemental mercury to methylmercury, an organic form that accumulates in food chains, increasing in concentration higher up the chains.

«Where other people have looked at effects of island size on restricted numbers of species or restricted levels in food chains, we did the full thing across four levels,» he specifies.

Amphibians are important pieces in ecosystems as secondary consumers in food chains.

PCBs and HCB are both long - lived pollutants that accumulate in food chains and take decades to break down.

Because the power relationships that exist in food chains are so central to global hunger — over two - thirds of those who are hungry today produce food — centralized control over key agricultural functions must be dismantled.79 In the Brazilian soybean market, 200,000 farmers attempt to sell to five main commodity traders.

Among retail markets, supermarkets have important roles in food chains since they are located close to the end of the food chain.

Other possible use cases could include storing the selected data in order to prevent fraud in the food chain and in the field of forensic medicine.

Any plant species feeding on their resultant fertilizes may also pick - up their sub-human traits and passed them on in the food chain.

It is not glamorous or nice, but it is our place in the food chain and there is no need to feel bad about it.

Generally, this goal is achieved in both countries through a risk - based food safety evaluation system supported by both governmental inspection and obligations of the food industry to evaluate risk areas in the food chain.

Sign the Carrageenan Petition to the FDA to let the federal agency know you don't want this ingredient in the food chain.

More than 130 experts on viruses in the food chain gathered at the first International Workshop on Foodborne Viruses at the Royal Society of Science in London.

«They've been a huge partner with us to help design packaging in this category that is incredibly safe and durable and holds up to the life in the food chain, all the way through manufacturing, distribution and delivering a great meal to the consumer's dining table,» says Dana Richardson, vice president of marketing.

However, there are still only a handful of foods that have GMO equivalents in the food chain, and labeling a food as free from GMOs can become almost meaningless for those foods that have no GMO varieties in the food chain.

That process of hydrogenating vegetable oils, primarily oils derived from soy and corn, two highly subsidized crops in the U.S. which have only been in the food chain post WWII due to expeller - pressed technology, creates toxic trans - fats which have now been shown to be very unhealthy and linked to many diseases.

It accused the Commission of failing in its duty by law to defend the interests of consumers, claiming the current market situation hampered innovation in the food chain and damaged consumer choice allowing local shops to disappear.

At American International Foods, Inc., we're your link in the food chain!

Gastronomy can be understood as another link in the food chain, and as a change factor that offers a different perspective to the conventional outlook, and seeks solutions to social problems which, after all, affect all of us.»

Plus: Preventing a future horsemeat scandal with supply chain tracing software, the controversy surrounding the use of antibiotics in the food chain, knowing the rules for food - grade lubricants, the industry's response to the new EU regulations for probiotics, enhancing shelf life with barrier packaging, and more

Generally the impacts of food losses are higher if they occur later in the food chain, since all processes occurring before that stage are wasted.

The Commission also proposes to examine ways to improve the use of date marking by actors in the food chain and its understanding by consumers.

«This is not a money making exercise, but a sensible move to reduce food waste and keep edible food in the food chain.

Emtman, who weighs 290 pounds — only 9 % of it fat — and who might as well be carrying firearms as he leads the Husky defensive line, assigns quarterbacks the same rank in the food chain as he does all bottom feeders, and he destroys them with equal gusto and lack of remorse.

The Western Montana Scientists» Committee for Public Information reported: «Since 1080 remains stable and does not degrade easily, it is extremely hazardous to animals higher in the food chain.

We have to acknowledge that there are clubs higher in the food chain.

In this case, however, position in the food chain shouldn't be enough alone, because it's difficult to guess what Pochettino would gain by swapping London for Manchester.

In a food chain we call the herbivore the primary consumer.

Such regional goals for school food, hospitals, military bases, and other publicly funded food programs in each area would create more than enough aggregate dollars to make a notable difference in the food chain.

Students will also classify the animals and determine how they fit in the food chain.

and, according to the film's website, it follows «two eleven - year - old multi-racial city kids as they explore their place in the food chain.

Even though some fish like salmon and tuna are recommended for a healthy diet, pollution has created some mishaps in the food chain.

«NOAH along with the National Farmers Union, the veterinary profession and others in the food chain support this commitment to good practice through the RUMA (Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture) Alliance,» he said.

«However, it is important that consumers who are interested or concerned about the health and welfare of animals in the food chain have access to information that's easy to understand and helpful.

People far higher up than me in the food chain will make those decisions.

One of the initiatives we have launched in Denmark is a national partnership for reduction of avoidable food waste, which will foster voluntary and binding collaboration between all links in the food chain and relevant authorities and organisations, as solutions and barriers should be addressed across all stakeholders.»

And the return to ocean conditions last seen in the Ediacaran period more than 540 million years ago — when jellies last ruled the seas — has been a boon for certain fishes in habitats like the Benguela Current in the South Atlantic off Namibia in Africa, where jellyfish - eating gobies have replaced sardines in the food chain.

Vultures play an important function in the food chain by acting as scavengers, and there has been a giant ongoing effort to identify the causes for this rapid decline.

This month's cover story seeks out some of the most troubling links in our food chain: arsenic in rice, foodborne UTIs, and the 15 percent of food that comes from countries beyond our regulatory control.

One reservoir for resistance genes where they can be exchanged among bacteria — and possibly end up in the food chain — is the sediment in marine fish farms even when no antibiotics have been applied.

«We have used data from biological observations and analysed the relationship between the different species and their place in the food chain.

Although most people think fish are the original source of DHA and EPA, these omega - 3s actually come from the algae lower in the food chain.

Others eat insects or are important links in the food chain.

«This clearly shows that plastic is in our food chain,» says Pete Davison of Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in California.

«Acrylamide is ubiquitous in our food chain.