One of the global food safety issue is food poisoning with mycotoxins produced by fungi.
The consumption of mycotoxin-contaminated foods is responsible for several foodborne
diseases outbreak worldwide. While peanuts ...
Street vended foods are ready-to-eat foods and beverages. The consumption of these
foods is common in Ethiopia. But, researches made in some countries show that street
vended food are cause for different diseases ...
Introduction: Maternal dietary knowledge andpracticeis an essential element to ensure
pregnancy related outcomes and to ensure optimal gestational weight gain, reduce complications
and ensures positive birth ...
Currently, noise pollution has been becoming a serious problem for society in the
cities. This study aimed to assess the pollution level and the distribution of it in Bahir
Dar City using ArcGIS as a tool between March ...
Food safety is the assurance that food will not cause any harm to the consumer when it is
prepared and/or consumed according to its intended use (FAO/WHO, 1997). Ensuring
food safety to protect public health remains a ...
Background: Nowadays Bottle-feeding has become a practice in developed countries and urban
communities of developing countries. There is a current shift from traditional feeding practice
towards shorter breastfeeding ...
Volatile compounds in beer are substances that contribute significantly to the
organoleptic properties of beverages and thus affect product quality both in positive and
negative way. The objective of this study was ...
Tallow is a class of lipids and organic mixture consisting of both saturated and unsaturated fatty acids that can be processed into commercial stearic acid for industrial applications. Stearic Acid can be produced from ...
Different types of dyes are used in textile industries. The Loss of dye within textile wastewaters could vary from 5% for basic dyes to as high as 50% for reactive dyes, leading to severe contamination of surface and ...
Improvement of life style of human beings as well as rapid population growth raises consumption rate of resources and generates large amount of waste and discharge into water bodies. These lead existence of unsafe drinking ...
The growing industrial development is leading to the production of contaminants that are
seriously affecting the ecosystem; especially pharmaceutical industry that produces residuals
containing high complexity compounds, ...
This thesis aims to investigate the microwave-assisted alkaline pretreatment and acid hydrolysis of sugarcane bagasse (SCB) for the production of reducing sugar. Pretreatment is the main step for reducing the lignin part ...
Experimental study was conducted to determine the effects of lupine green manure and conventional compost rates on soil physico-chemical properties, and yield of wheat at Ambisi Sekela Woreda. A factorial experiment ...
The scarcity of clean water becomes an urgent problem that we are facing. Moreover,
most of the conventional water purification technologies are energy-intensive,
expensive, and not environmentally friendly. As a ...
Background: Adverse birth outcomes are closely associated with increased fetal and neonatal mortality, morbidity, and impaired growth and cognitive development in both developing and developed countries. However, the effect ...
Kocho is a starchy fermented food obtained from scraping of pseudo stem and grated
corm of enset plant (Enset Ventricosum). The Objective of this study is to determine the
effect fermentation temperature and time on ...
Tej is Ethiopian traditional home made alcoholic beverage. Tej is made from honey,
gesho and water. This study focused on the effect of honey concentration and amount of
gesho on the quality of Ethiopian honey wine; ...
Introduction of teff (Eragrostis teff) Findings indicate that selected organic acids have
effect on the physico-chemical, proximate composition microbial load and sensory
analysis of teff injera. In proximate ...
Surface water sources are known to contain a high amount of natural organic matter (NOM)
which results from natural and anthropogenic activities. The NOM could react with chlorine to
produce disinfection by-products ...
Starch is the most commonly used pharmaceutical excipient in the manufacture of tablets. The present study investigated the potato starch, which is used to prepare pharacetamol. The properties of potato starch extracted ...