IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR: NINE YEARS LATER

Improving food safety in the informal sector: nine years later

Introduction: Foodborne disease is a major public health problem in poor countries, but we lack effective, sustainable and scalable approaches that work in the traditional, informal markets where most fresh, risky food is sold.A promising intervention is working with informal sector vendors to provide: a) training and technologies; b) an enabling e

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The effect of alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on drinking behaviour in young people: systematic review of prospective cohort studies

Abstract Background The effect of alcohol portrayals and advertising on the drinking behaviour of young people is a matter of much debate.We evaluated the relationship between exposure to alcohol advertising, marketing and portrayal on subsequent drinking behaviour in young people by systematic review of cohort (longitudinal) studies.Methods studie

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Iron, Ferritin, Hereditary Ferritinopathy, and Neurodegeneration

Cellular growth, function, and protection require proper iron management, and ferritin plays a crucial role as the major iron sequestration and storage protein.Ferritin is a 24 subunit spherical shell protein composed of both light (FTL) and heavy chain (FTH1) subunits, possessing complimentary iron-handling functions and forming three-fold and fou

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Connect and immerse: a poetry of codes and signals

This article investigates how codes and signals were employed in avant-garde poetry and art in the 1960s, and how such attempts were performed in the wake of cybernetics and (partly) through the use of new media technologies, such Hand Balm as the tape recorder and the computer.This poetry—as exemplified here by works by Åke Hodell, P

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