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Food Control and Biosecurity, Volume Sixteen, the latest release in
the Handbook of Food Bioengineering series, is an essential
resource for anyone in the food industry who needs to understand
safety and quality control to prevent or reduce the spread of
foodborne diseases. The book covers information from exporter to
transporter, importer and retailer, and offers valuable tools to
measure food quality while also addressing government standards and
regulations for food production, processing and consumption. The
book presents cutting-edge methods for detecting hazardous
compounds within foods, including carcinogenic chemicals. Other
related topics addressing food insecurity and food defense are also
discussed.
Despite what you may have read in the popular press and in social
media, Precision Medicine is not devoted to finding unique
treatments for individuals, based on analyzing their DNA. To the
contrary, the goal of Precision Medicine is to find general
treatments that are highly effective for large numbers of
individuals who fall into precisely diagnosed groups. We now know
that every disease develops over time, through a sequence of
defined biological steps, and that these steps may differ among
individuals, based on genetic and environmental conditions. We are
currently developing rational therapies and preventive measures,
based on our precise understanding of the steps leading to the
clinical expression of diseases. Precision Medicine and the
Reinvention of Human Disease explains the scientific breakthroughs
that have changed the way that we understand diseases, and reveals
how medical scientists are using this new knowledge to launch a
medical revolution.
This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving
large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process
industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of
illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial
applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch
processes, round out the coverage. The book examines a variety of
complex, real-world problems, and demonstrates solutions that are
applicable to scenarios and countries around the world.
Specifically, these case studies include: • the production
planning of the bottling stage of a major brewery at the
CervecerÃa   Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Heineken
Int) in Mexico;• the production scheduling for multi-stage
semicontinuous processes at an ice-cream  production
facility of Unilever in the Netherlands;• the
resource-constrained production planning for the yogurt production
line at the KRI KRI dairy production facility in Greece; and• the
production scheduling for large-scale, multi-stage batch processes
at a pharmaceutical batch plant  in Germany. In
addition, the book includes industrial-inspired case studies of:
• the simultaneous planning of production and logistics
operations considering multi-site facilities for
semicontinuous processes; and• the integrated planning of
production and utility systems in process industries under
uncertainty. Solving Large-scale Production Scheduling and Planning
in the Process Industries offers a valuable reference guide for
researchers and decision-makers alike, as it shows readers how to
evaluate and improve existing installations, and how to design new
ones. It is also well suited as a textbook for advanced courses on
production scheduling and planning in industry, as it addresses the
optimization of production and logistics operations in real-world
process industries.
Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and
interdisciplinary introduction to food studies for the beginning
reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field, drawing on
disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Anthropology and Cultural
Studies at one end and Economics, Politics and Agricultural Science
at the other. In order to clarify the issues, Food: The Key
Concepts distills food choices down to three competing
considerations: consumer identity; matters of convenience and
price; and an awareness of the consequences of what is consumed.
The book concludes with an examination of two very different future
scenarios for feeding the world's population: the technological
fix, which looks to science to provide the solution to our future
food needs; and the anthropological fix, which hopes to change our
expectations and behaviors. Throughout, the analysis is illustrated
with lively case studies. Bulleted chapter summaries, questions and
guides to further reading are also provided.
The 2022 edition of the Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical
Distributors, the 'Green Guide', is the essential reference for all
distributors, brokers of human medicines, importers and
distributors of active substances in the UK.It provides you with
the single authoritative source of European good distribution
practices and UK guidance, information and UK legislation on these
activities.The new 5th edition has been updated to incorporate
changes made after the UK's exit from the European Union on the
31st January 2020.It also incorporates new guidance on
pharmacovigilance for wholesalers, the naming of sites on a
licence, self-inspection, and the responsible person for import.It
brings together EU guidance on good distribution practice and the
MHRA's expectations for compliance. There is also a new flowchart
for the registration of handling active substances
Since its humble beginnings at Seattle's Pike Place Market in 1971,
Starbucks has grown to become an industry leader and household
name. This book takes an in-depth look at the evolution of this
dynamic and sometimes controversial corporation. Americans drink
400 million cups of coffee every day, and many of them come from
the thousands of Starbucks coffeehouses across the country. But how
much do you really know about the place you get your morning cup of
Joe? Part of Greenwood's Corporations That Changed the World
series, this book provides readers with a richly detailed history
of this famous coffeehouse chain. It traces StarbuckS' meteoric
rise from a small Seattle-based company to an international
powerhouse, chronicling how the changing executive leadership
affected corporate strategy and direction. It also explores how
Starbucks has embraced and incorporated new technologies and
innovations, as well as how the corporation has shaped and been
shaped by important social causes. An unbiased look at the
controversies that have surrounded Starbucks over the years will
help readers better understand these contentious issues. This
updated and expanded edition includes new chapters, current
financial data, and coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on
the company. Provides the reader with a multitude of company
statistics, beneficial for better understanding the rise of this
industry giant Includes a brief history of the coffee bean and how
Starbucks has influenced the cultivation of coffee worldwide
Investigates the controversies that have surrounded Starbucks, from
labor issues to the contentious holiday cups Explores how the
COVID-19 pandemic has affected Starbucks, including such topics as
employee safety and store closures
The significant media coverage recently given to issues such as the
international impacts of biofuel production policies, advances in
synthetic biology, and the ethical implications of research
involving embryonic stem cells, is indicative of the high-level of
interest - among policy-makers, academics and the public - in the
biotechnology revolution, its applications, impacts and control.
There is also significant interest in international regulatory
processes as a form of governance, and international regulation is
a vital part of efforts to manage the impacts of the biotechnology
revolution, since many of these are global in their nature. The
book establishes the need for international regulation of
biotechnology, identifying the roles it needs to play, and the
issues it needs to cover. Having outlined the importance of
coherence to the effective functioning of international regulatory
sets, a model of coherent international regulation is established,
against which the biotechnology regulations can be assessed. This
book approaches the subject from an international relations
perspective but also draws from, and will contribute to, literature
in the fields of international law, global governance,
technological governance, and science-society relations.
The emergence of a world economy depends on the reorganization of
agriculture and food systems to provision the work force and the
industries associated with the division of labor. This work
emphasizes the central role played by food and agriculture in the
world economy. The book includes a historical dimension along with
the formulation of the challenges that face the world today. Social
scientists of all kinds, but especially economists, sociologists,
environmentalists, and political scientists, should be interested
in this volume.
"" I have no pain now, mother dear, But, oh, I am so dry! Connect
me to a brewery and leave me there to die.""
Breweries were large and striking buildings whose towering presence
was often reinforced by their occupation of sites in the middle of
towns. They were the flagships of a major industry and generators
of some of the great business fortunes. Designing their breweries
for architectural grandeur as well as for their function, brewers
were well aware of the marketing value of their buildings and used
them as advertisements. What is surprising is that so little
attention has been paid to breweries, in contrast to other great
industrial buildings such as mills and warehouses. Lavishly
illustrated, "British Breweries" covers the whole of their history,
from the country house brewhouses of the eighteenth century to the
great breweries of Georgian and Victorian England, and to
widespread disappearance in the twentieth century.
Faster, Higher, Farther chronicles a corporate scandal that rivals
those at Enron and Lehman Brothers-one that will cost Volkswagen
more than $22 billion in fines and settlements. Through meticulous
reporting, New York Times correspondent Jack Ewing documents why VW
felt compelled to install "defeat devices" in diesel vehicles that
unlawfully lowered CO2 levels during emissions testing, and how the
fraud was committed, covered up, and finally detected. Faster,
Higher, Farther is a briskly written account of unrivaled corporate
greed. Updated with the latest information and a new afterword by
the author.
The Munitions Inquiry, often called the Nye Committee after its
chairperson, Senator Gerald Nye, critically examined the pre-World
War II military-industrial complex of government agencies,
corporations, labor unions, and financial institutions. Cold
War-era historians typically presented the inquiry as a naive
isolationist search for evil arms dealers who caused wars. Going
beyond the concept of the Merchants of Death theory and into the
social, intellectual, political, and cultural currents of the
1930s, Coulter expands the dimensions of a topic formerly framed
within the narrow confines of isolationism and internationalism. In
addition, he shows how the committee's 19th-century values and
progressive idealism were unsuited to an era dominated by Hitler
and Mussolini. In divesting the Munitions Inquiry of its image as
an historical oddity, this book recovers a piece of American
history that had been a casualty of World War II and the Cold War.
Costa Rica After Coffee explores the political, social, and
economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary
Costa Rican history. In this follow-up to the 1986 classic Costa
Rica Before Coffee, Lowell Gudmundson delves deeply into archival
sources, alongside the individual histories of key coffee-growing
families, to explore the development of the co-op movement, the
rise of the gourmet coffee market, and the societal transformations
Costa Rica has undergone as a result of the coffee industry's
powerful presence in the country. While Costa Rican coffee farmers
and co-ops experienced a golden age in the 1970s and 1980s, the
emergence and expansion of a gourmet coffee market in the 1990s
drastically reduced harvest volumes. Meanwhile, urbanization and
improved education among the Costa Rican population threatened the
continuance of family coffee farms, because of the lack of both
farmland and a successor generation of farmers. As the last few
decades have seen a rise in tourism and other industries within the
country, agricultural exports like coffee have ceased to occupy the
same crucial space in the Costa Rican economy. Gudmundson argues
that the fulfillment of promises of reform from the co-op era had
the paradoxical effect of challenging the endurance of the coffee
industry.
Nine world-class experts on the African economy share their
knowledge regarding the potential for real improvement and growth
in food production and the development of grassroots economies that
will benefit citizens as well as governments. Economic models that
assume good incentives, infrastructure, entrepreneurial skills, and
a level trading field cannot be invoked. Structural adjustment in
African countries has led to unintended consequences because the
common people and the small farmers have not been consulted.
Domestic food production, the crux of Africa's economic problem,
has been downgraded because of the emphasis on export crops. To
develop self-sufficiency and food security, African nations must
mobilize domestic resources, improve the human resource capacity,
and strengthen their scientific and technological bases. They must
also cooperate in integration schemes rather than compete for the
available Western aid.
This book provides authentic and comprehensive information on the
concepts, methods, functional details and applications of
nano-emulsions. Following an introduction to the applications of
nanotechnology in the development of foods, it elaborates on
food-grade nano-emulsion and their significance, discusses various
techniques and methods for producing food-grade nano-emulsion, and
reviews the main ingredient and component of food-grade
nano-emulsions. Further, the book includes a critical review of the
engineering aspect of fabricating food-grade nano-emulsions and
describe recently developed vitamin encapsulated nano-systems. In
closing, it discuss the challenges and opportunities of
characterizing nano-emulsified systems, the market risks and
opportunities of nano-emulsified foods, and packaging techniques
and safety issues - including risk identification and risk
management - for nano-foods. The book offers a unique guide for
scientists and researchers working in this field. It will also help
researchers, policymakers, industry personnel, journalists and the
general public to understand food nanotechnology in great detail.
This research monograph answers the question how sustainability
driven entrepreneurs (ecopreneurs) deliver their sustainability
goals through their business practices. The research draws on data
from 12 case studies set within the food industry. The analysis
takes a firm level and a supply chain level perspective and
provides insights to the interconnected nature of sustainability
goals within and across firms. It provides theoretical propositions
that show one approach of how to conduct business in a way that
works for the planet and people in addition to shareholders. This
presents an alternative understanding of organisational performance
that builds the foundation for many avenues of future research into
sustainable management. The research combines the remote areas of
supply chain management and entrepreneurship at the intersection of
sustainability. This novel approach and the insights from the
business practice exploration, offer many avenues for further
research beyond entrepreneurship and supply chain management. This
book will be of interest to academics in management research and
also to people with an academic background that work together with
sustainability driven and/ or social entrepreneurs, who could
benefit from the insights into how sustainability goals are
delivered through business practices and the relevant trade-offs
faced by ecopreneurs.
This book examines how the norms, culture, and practices of the
socio-economic Nordic model give them a competitive edge in
globalized production chains. Using the Norwegian automotive
industry - one of the most globalized industries in the world - as
the empirical foundation of the book, it examines the strengths,
tensions, and challenges the Norwegian work organization style
meets in this particular business environment. It explores the
current indicators of competitiveness, innovation, scientific
excellence, and well-being as compared with the US, UK, EU, Japan,
and elsewhere to address the hotly debated question of how
institutions and culture contribute to or inhibit certain forms of
work organization, learning, and economic performance. Integrating
action research, organization studies, and learning and innovation
economics, this book provides a more precise understanding of how
institutions and cultures at a macro level shape learning practices
in a competitive industry.
This volume applies a mix of qualitative and quantitative research
and case studies to analyze the role that the craft beverage
industry plays within society at large. It targets important themes
such as environmental conservation and social responsibility, as
well as the psychology of the craft beer drinker and their impact
on tourism marketing. This volume advances marketing, hospitality,
and leisure studies research for academics, industry experts, and
emerging entrepreneurs.
This book provides an overview of current issues and challenges in
the fashion industry and an update on data-driven artificial
intelligence (AI) techniques and their potential implementation in
response to those challenges. Each chapter starts off with an
example of a data-driven AI technique on a particular sector of the
fashion industry (design, manufacturing, supply or retailing),
before moving on to illustrate its implementation in a real-world
application
This book provides up-to-date information on globalisation trends
and the transformations taking place in emerging markets. It
discusses key themes of relevance to the auto industry, including
the environmental impact of the car, adaptation of designs for the
needs of emerging markets and the emergence of global
mega-suppliers. These issues are placed in the context of more
general debates about globalisation and current crises in emerging
markets such as Brazil and East Asia.
This book describes the creation of a new economy in the Soviet
Union from 1930 to 1945. The Red Army defeated the Germans in World
War II with equipment produced by that economy and not with masses
of untrained men as has been often argued. The Soviet weapons were
produced in factories designed and built under the direction of
American engineers in the 1930s. Also, the Weimar Republic played a
part in the creation of the Red Army by providing aviation and tank
training schools and technical assistance to the developing
armaments industry. Dunn argues that if France had been invaded by
the Allies in 1943 rather than in 1944, the post-war world would
have been less advantageous to the Soviet Union.
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