Sentences with phrase «links of the food chain»

What they can also see is the combination of species in the different links of the food chain.

Not exact matches

The Freshtag system links together the entire supply chain, from point of production through to restaurant or shop, which is meant to ensure food is consumed at optimum freshness and can «significantly reduce» unnecessary food waste, the company claims.

But Brian Ahmed, president of the egg group at the Victorian Farmers Federation, said keeping eggs refrigerated in supermarkets remains the «missing link» in the food safety 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.

Third, because we can not achieve nutritional goals without addressing food security, we have to address the different links within the value chain to ensure not just sufficient supply, but also reliable ways to access food regardless of season, including during times of disasters (whether natural or man - made).

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.»

A Freedom of Information request to the Food and Drug Administration in the US by the Cornucopia Institute found similar reactions logged in some babies fed on formula with Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (such as DHA and ARA), which it was suggested may be linked to the production process.

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They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»

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.»

Friends of the Earth's executive director Andy Atkins said: «Small farms are losing out to big business factory farming - the killer link in a hidden chain that connects the food on our plates to climate change and rainforest destruction.

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.

Taken together, these organisms weigh approximately 10 billion tons and are a major link in the food chain between microscopic plankton and top predators like tuna, birds and marine mammals, according to Simone Baumann - Pickering, an assistant research biologist at the University of California, in San Diego.

Now that Mainland et al have published «The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire» and Foote et al have published «Tracking niche variation over millennial timescales in sympatric killer whale lineages,» the similarities at the top of the aquatic and terrestrial food chains attest to the power of conserved molecular mechanisms to link cause and effect across all species via olfaction and odor receptors, which is what I detailed in the review I submitted last week.

Abbreviations: Aβ, amyloid β - peptide; AD, Alzheimer's disease; ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Ambra1, activating molecule in Beclin -1-regulated autophagy; AMPK, AMP - activated protein kinase; APP, amyloid precursor protein; AR, androgen receptor; Atg, autophagy - related; AV, autophagic vacuole; Bcl, B - cell lymphoma; BH3, Bcl - 2 homology 3; CaMKKβ, Ca2 + - dependent protein kinase kinase β; CHMP2B, charged multivesicular body protein 2B; CMA, chaperone - mediated autophagy; 2 ′ 5 ′ ddA, 2 ′, 5 ′ - dideoxyadenosine; deptor, DEP - domain containing mTOR - interacting protein; DRPLA, dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy; 4E - BP1, translation initiation factor 4E - binding protein - 1; Epac, exchange protein directly activated by cAMP; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; ERK1 / 2, extracellular - signal - regulated kinase 1/2; ESCRT, endosomal sorting complex required for transport; FAD, familial AD; FDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FIP200, focal adhesion kinase family - interacting protein of 200 kDa; FoxO3, forkhead box O3; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; FTD3, FTD linked to chromosome 3; GAP, GTPase - activating protein; GR, guanidine retinoid; GSK3, glycogen synthase kinase 3; HD, Huntington's disease; hiPSC, human induced pluripotent stem cell; hVps, mammalian vacuolar protein sorting homologue; IKK, inhibitor of nuclear factor κB kinase; IMPase, inositol monophosphatase; IP3R, Ins (1,4,5) P3 receptor; I1R, imidazoline - 1 receptor; JNK1, c - Jun N - terminal kinase 1; LC3, light chain 3; LD, Lafora disease; L - NAME, NG - nitro - L - arginine methyl ester; LRRK2, leucine - rich repeat kinase 2; MIPS, myo - inositol -1-phosphate synthase; mLST8, mammalian lethal with SEC13 protein 8; MND, motor neuron disease; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; mTORC, mTOR complex; MVB, multivesicular body; NAC, N - acetylcysteine; NBR1, neighbour of BRCA1 gene 1; NOS, nitric oxide synthase; p70S6K, ribosomal protein S6 kinase - 1; PD, Parkinson's disease; PDK1, phosphoinositide - dependent kinase 1; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; PI3K, phosphoinositide 3 - kinase; PI3KC1a, class Ia PI3K; PI3KC3, class III PI3K; PI3KK, PI3K - related protein kinase; PINK1, PTEN - induced kinase 1; PKA, protein kinase A; PLC, phospholipase C; polyQ, polyglutamine; PS, presenilin; PTEN, phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted from chromosome 10; Rag, Ras - related GTP - binding protein; raptor, regulatory - associated protein of mTOR; Rheb, Ras homologue enriched in brain; rictor, rapamycin - insensitive companion of mTOR; SBMA, spinobulbar muscular atrophy; SCA, spinocerebellar ataxia; SLC, solute carrier; SMER, small - molecule enhancer of rapamycin; SMIR, small - molecule inhibitor of rapamycin; SNARE, N - ethylmaleimide - sensitive factor - attachment protein receptor; SOD1, copper / zinc superoxide dismutase 1; TFEB, transcription factor EB; TOR, target of rapamycin; TSC, tuberous sclerosis complex; ULK1, UNC -51-like kinase 1; UVRAG, UV irradiation resistance - associated gene; VAMP, vesicle - associated membrane protein; v - ATPase, vacuolar H + - ATPase; Vps, vacuolar protein sorting

For whatever reason, automakers are equipping and pricing five - door models at the top of their American food chains, and the Hyundai is no different: The GT is the only Elantra to offer Hyundai's new Blue Link telematics system and an optional, segment - first panoramic sunroof.

«Pit bulls will climb fences, chew up stainless steel food and water bowls, destroy copper tubing of automatic water systems and conventional cages, and attack other animals through chain link fences.»

The group will discuss adaptations and behaviors of predators and prey, as well as what happens when links are broken in a food chain.

It's home to millions of baitfish, crabs, shrimp, and other small aquatics, serving as the first link in the undersea food chain that supports the most abundant marine life in the Caribbean.

And if these areas were linked to nearby areas in the food chain or distribution of new life confluence then another condition for the ongoing continuation of special creature life is hampered.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

This change in ocean chemistry can strip away the building blocks of coral reefs, weakening an important link in the oceanic food chain.

Following dire reports of bee - colony collapses in recent years, at least three new solar sites in Florida and Maryland are trying to provide safe havens for these critical links in the food chain.

Any discussion on mitigation of climate change in agriculture thus needs to address the entire food chain, and to be linked to general sustainable development strategies.

Selenium is a micronutrient that bioaccumulates up the food chain and has been linked to a variety of problems, including deformed fish.

As Pekka points out, there is considerable uncertainty associated with the magnitude of projections, but paleoclimatologic data indicate that they are likely to be sufficient to impair the calcification processes essential for the integrity of many marine species involved in the food chain, and thus of concern to us to the extent that our civilization is linked to the welfare of ocean biology...

And the answer: once they had got rid of the plastic they realised that food packaging was another link in the chain.

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.

Instead, they are allowing giant seed companies to secure exclusive monopolies that undermine the economic security of farming communities and jeopardize access to seeds — the first link in the food chain.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico, have tested the toxicity of oil particles dispersed with Corexit, the dispersant used in the BP oil spill, on rotifers, microscopic animals that form an important link in the Gulf food chain, and which are common subjects in marine toxicity tests.

It has now been disclosed in a WWF report that APP's fiber, used by 8 large retailers (BI-LO, Brookshire Grocery Company, Delhaize Group (owner of Food Lion chain), Harris Teeter, Kmart, Kroger, SUPERVALU, and Weis Markets) is to be discontinued because of this link.

«Food is wasted at every broken link in the supply chain, giving all of us a role to play in tackling this critical issue.