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- FAQ - SCI.BIO.FOOD.SCIENCE Frequently-Asked Questions (1 of 3)
-
- On behalf of Rachel Zemser and J. Ralph Blanchfield, I welcome you to
- sci.bio.food-science.
-
- You are all encouraged to contact one of us if you have suggestions
- additions, or other 'major' questions we haven't thought of. Our names
- and email addresses are:
-
- Rachel Zemser, creator of the newsgroup sci.bio.food-science
- <mailto://RZemser@aol.com>
-
- J. Ralph Blanchfield, Food Science, Food Technology & Food Law Consultant,
- Chair, IFST Member Relations & Services Committee and Web Editor,
- IFST Web on the WWW <mailto://jralphb@easynet.co.uk>
-
- Paul King, Creator and Maintainer of the List of Common Abbreviations
- <mailto://pking123@sympatico.ca>
-
- For a glossary of scientific, marketing, industry, technical and legal
- terms of relevance to food science, see FAQ 2 of 3. For a list of common
- questions and answers about food and food science, see FAQ 3 of 3.
-
- - Paul King
-
- FAQ 1/3- SCI.BIO.FOOD-SCIENCE Frequently-Asked Questions
- *******************************************************************************
- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- The following documents have been brought to you by:
-
- Rachel Zemser, creator of the newsgroup sci.bio.food-science.
- <mailto://RZemser@aol.com>
-
- J Ralph Blanchfield,
- Food Science, Food Technology & Food Law Consultant, Chair, IFST
- Member Relations & Services Committee and Web Editor, IFST Web on
- the WWW <mailto://jralphb@easynet.co.uk>
-
- Paul King, Creator and Maintainer of the List of Common
- Abbreviations <mailto://pking123@sympatico.ca>
-
- This document has been created to answer questions about Food
- Science and the newsgroup sci.bio.food-science. This document
- contains five Parts, formatted in three Files.
-
- FILE 1/3
- I. Guidelines for posting in sci.bio.food-science
- II. A list of Food Science related Web Sites
- III. A list of common abbreviations
-
- FILE 2/3
- IV. Food Science Definitions and Interpretations that have
- been prepared by a joint working group of the Institute
- of Food Science and Technology (IFST) and the UK Association
- of Public Analysts (APA)
-
- FILE 3/3
- V. Frequently Asked Questions About Food Science and Technology
- that have been prepared by the Institute of Food Science &
- Technology (IFST), the professional qualifying body for food
- scientists and technologists; a UK-based body with
- international interests.
- <WWW address http://www.easynet.co.uk/ifst/>
-
- I. GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR POSTING IN SCI.BIO.FOOD-SCIENCE
-
- The goals of this newsgroup are:
-
- 1. To discuss topics and issues related to food chemistry,
- food microbiology, food engineering/processing, food biotechnology,
- dairy science, agriculture, fermentation, nutrition, toxicology,
- agribusiness, sensory science, and food safety.
-
- 2. To share experimental methods and improved teaching
- techniques.
-
- 3. To announce job vacancies for food science and technology
- professionals in all relevant fields.
-
- 4. To provide an opportunity for food science and technology
- professionals to post resumes of up to 500 words.
-
- 5. To make available, and answer questions about, abstracts
- of papers for publication or presentations.
-
- 6. To announce professional meetings, conferences, courses,
- events, etc., world wide
-
- 7. To discuss general areas of interest inside food science
- and technology.
-
- 8. Postings are welcome from food science and technology
- professionals, as well as from any others seeking advice or
- information on these subjects. No posting may offer for sale or hire,
- or request payment for, goods, services or information
-
- Please make sure that your post is related to the above goals
- of the newsgroup. There are lots of other food related newsgroups and
- some of them may be better for your post. Some of these groups are:
-
- sci.med.nutrition, rec.food.preserving, rec.food.cooking,
- rec.food.recipes, alt.food.wine, alt.food.fat-free,
- rec.food-veg, rec.food.veg.cooking, alt.support.diet
-
- II. A LIST OF FOOD SCIENCE RELATED WEB SITES
-
- The following is a list of food science related web sites. Some
- of these may be of interest to food scientists reading this group.
-
- This list has been created in an effort to bring food scientists
- closer together on the internet. If you find a site that is not
- mentioned in this list please email Paul King at
- <mailto://pking123@sympatico.ca> or Ralph Blanchfield at
- <mailto://jralphb@easynet.co.uk>
-
- 1.ACADEMIC SITES -
-
- There are many food science/edu web pages. This list does not
- include every one. However, from these sites, one can link to many
- more food science/academic related sites. This list will be updated
- on a regular basis. Though the list is alphebetized, the words
- 'University' or 'University of' will be ignored in the
- alphabetisation.
-
- In addition, the web sites are sorted by country, as far as 1)
- the available information, and 2) the country code of the web site
- will allow. This is in light of the fact that the number of websites
- suggested by our subscribers have grown considerably over the past
- while, and some logical ordering is necessary. If your mailer, news
- reader or text viewer can do a case-sensitive string search, you will
- find that the spellings of the countries are capitalised.
-
- AUSTRAILIA
- Queensland University: <http://www.laf.uq.edu.au/foodsci/>
-
- AUSTRIA
- Graz Univ of Technology, Div of Fd Chem: <http://www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/ilct>
-
- CANADA
- Acadia University: <http://ace.acadiau.ca/science/NUTR/Home.htm>
- University of Alberta: <http://www.afns.ualberta.ca/>
- University of Guelph: <http://www.oac.uoguelph.ca/foodsci/>
- University of Manitoba: <http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/afs/food_science>
- Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Aquaculture program:
- <http://www.mi.mun.ca/mi/aqua/aqua.html>
- MUN Marine Institute: <http://www.mi.mun.ca/>
- Dalhousie University Fd Sci and Tech (Formerly TUNS):
- <http://www.tuns.ca:80/foodsci/>
-
- DENMARK
- Royal Vetarinary and Agricultural University: <http://www.foodsci.kvl.dk/>
-
- FINLAND
- University of Helsinki: <http://honeybee.helsinki.fi/MMETT/MMETT.HTM>
-
- GERMANY
- University of Hohenheim:<http://www.uni-hohenheim.de/~ltserv/engl-index.html>
-
- ITALY
- Bologna University: <http://www.foodsci.unibo.it/engl_index.html>
- University of Milan: <http://imiucca.csi.inimi.it/~distam/distam1e.html>
-
- JAMAICA
- West Indies University: <http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/chemug2a.html>
-
- THE NETHERLANDS (HOLLAND)
- Wageningen Agricultural University: <http://www.spb.wau.nl/lmt/>
-
- SPAIN
- Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology: <http://www.iata.csic.es/>
-
- SWEDEN
- Lund University (Fd Eng): <http://www.livstek.lth.se/livstek_eng.htm>
-
- SWITZERLAND
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich): <http://www.agrl.ethz.ch/>
-
- UNITED KINGDOM
- University of Huddersfield:
- <http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/applied_sciences/fnhm/welcome.htm>
- University of Leeds: <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/food.htm>
- University of Leeds FS <http://www.food.leeds.ac.uk/default.htm>
- Manchester Metropolitan University:
- <http://www.prospectus.mmu.ac.uk/search.htm>
- University of Nottingham:
- <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/schbiol/FoodSci/foodsci.html>
- Oxford Brookes University:
- <http://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/undergra/fnnu.html>
- University of Reading: <http://www.fst.rdg.ac.uk/index.html>
- University of Strathclyde:
- <http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/BioSci/bbindex.html>
- University of Surrey: <http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Search/index.html>
-
- UNITED STATES
- Arizona University: <http://ag.arizona.edu:80/NSC/nschome.htm>
- University of California at Davis: <http://www-foodsci.ucdavis.edu>
- University of Colorado Agricultural List:
- <http://wwwmbb.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/bb/66/summary.html>
- Cornell University: <http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/cifs/>
- University of Delaware:
- <gopher://bluehen.ags.udel.edu:70/hh/.fosc/.recruit/fosc.html>
- University of Florida: <http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/www/agator/htm/foodsci.htm>
- University of Houston: <http://5230.hilton.uh.edu>
- University of Illinois: <http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu/FoodSci/FoodSci.html>
- Kansas State University: <http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/c11food.html>
- University of Kentucky:
- <http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/FoodScience/links.html>
- University of Minnesota: <http://www.coafes.umn.edu/>
- Mississippi State University: <http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/FST/Homepage/>
- Mississippi State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics:
- <http://www.ais.msstate.edu/CALS/>
- Oklahoma State Animal Sciences): <http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/>
- Ohio State University: <http://www-fst.ag.ohio-state.edu/>
- Oregon State University: <http://www.orst.edu/food-resource/food.html>
- Purdue University: <http://www.foodsci.purdue.edu>
- Rutgers University: <http://fs4.rutgers.edu/>
- Texas A&M FS and Engineering: <http://ifse.tamu.edu/ifsehome.html>
- Texas A&M Meat Science: <http://savell-j.tamu.edu/jeff.html>
- University of Wisconsin: <http://uwrf.edu/food-science/welcome.html>
- Virginia Tech: <http://www.fst.vt.edu/files/>
- Washington State University: <http://av.fshn.wsu.edu/>
- Wayne State University: <http://www.wayne.edu/>
-
-
- 2.GENERAL WEB SITES RELATING TO FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
-
- ACCESSING THIS FAQ THRU THE WEB VIA DEJANEWS.COM OR
- SUNSITE.ORG.UK: By entering the complete name of this newsgroup on
- a web search form at DejaNews <http://dejanews.com/>, you may access
- all past postings in this (or any) newsgroup. The listings of the
- postings will be in reverse chronological order. Where you see the su
- bject line of this FAQ, follow that link, and the result is a copy of
- our FAQ, but with a differnce: All of the web links mentioned in FAQ
- 1/1 become LIVE web links. Thus, if you access this FAQ posting via
- DejaNews, all of the links mentioned below becom e live links which
- can be followed to academic, commercial, or government sites
- worldwide. The same is true on any other posting where a user may
- make a passing mention of a web site.
-
- Better still, Peter Sahlin <Peter.Sahlin@inl.lth.se> reported
- finding a html'ed copy of our FAQ through
- http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/faqs.html. It's exact location is
- at
-
- <http://sunsite.org.uk/public/usenet/news-faqs/sci.bio.food-science/>.
-
- It is better than DejaNews in that the FAQ is in the three parts that
- we had intended; you need not press any icons for the next screenful
- of text; and any mentioned links are still live, meaning you can use
- their copy of our FAQ on Netscape to jump to an y site on the
- internet that we have listed. This service is provided to us via the
- University of Oxford. DejaNews can still be useful to look at past
- postings.
-
- This list will also be updated from time to time.
-
- Agriculture and Agri-Food: <http://aceis.agr.ca/>
- American Association of Cereal Chemists: <http://www.scisoc.org/aacc/>
- ASEAN Fisheries Post-Harvest Technology Information Network, Singapore:
- <http://www.asean.fishnet.gov.sg/>
- Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology (AIFST):
- <http://www.dfst.csiro.au/aifst.htm>
- Beer Info Source: <http://www.beerinfo.com/>
- Burnaby Cook-Chill Production Center:<http//www.infinity.ca/foodinfoburnaby/>
- Canadian Org. of Nutritional Ed: <http://www.hpb.ca:8080/>
- CanWine <http://www.canwine.com/>
- Center For Disease Control: <http://www.cdc.gov/>
- Center for Science in the Public Interest: <http://www.cspinet.org>
- Chemistry & Industry Magazine: <http://ci.mond.org>
- Code of Federal Regulations:
- <http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html>
- Codex Alimentarus (FAO):
- <http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/economic/ESN/codex/Default.htm>
- Consumer Information Center: <http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/food.htm>
- Deja News Website: <http://dejanews.com/>
- Ed Blonz's FS site list: <http://blonz.com/>
- FDA: <http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/>
- Federal Trade Commission (USA):<http://www.ftc.gov>
- Food and Nutrition Information Center: <http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic>
- Food Chemical News Homepage: <http://crcpress.com/fcn/titlepg.htm>
- Food Composition Tables: <http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic>
- "Food Dude" browser (USA): <http://www.fooddude.com/>
- Food Law Page(IFT):<http://ift.micronexx.com/divisions/food_law/jump_gov.htm>
- Foodnet (Canada): <http://foodnet.fic.ca/>
- Functional Foods For Health: <http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~ffh/ffh.html>
- USFDA HACCP Page: <http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/haccp.html>
- IFIC Foundation: <http://ificinfo.health.org/homepage.htm>
- Integrated Crop Management: <http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/>
- Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute:
- <http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/fapri/>
- International Food Data Systems Project (FAO):
- <http://www.fao.org/infoods/>
- Institute of Food Research: <http://www.infrn.bbsrc.ac.uk/>
- Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST):
- <http://www.easynet.co.uk/ifst/>
- Institute of Food Technologists (IFT): <http://www.ift.org>
- International Food Information Council:
- <http://ificinfo.health.org/homepage.htm>
- Internet Resources for FS & Technology CSIRO, Australia:
- <http://www.dfst.csiro.au/fdnet20a.htm>
- Leatherhead Food Research Association: <http://www.lfra.co.uk/lfra/>
- Maize Genome Database: <http://www.agron.missouri.edu>
- Morbidity and Mortality Reports: <http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/>
- National Food Safety Database:<http://www.agen.ufl.edu/~foodsaf/foodsaf.html>
- National Council Against Health Fraud: <http://www.ncahf.org/>
- New Zealand Institute for Crop and Food Research: <http://www.crop.cri.nz/>
- Nutrient Database: <http://www.nutribase.com/>
- Post-Harvest Horticultural Links (FS and Food Safety):
- <http://www.postharvest.com.au/links_Food.htm>
- sci.bio.food-science FAQ on HTML:
- <http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/sci.bio.food-science.html>
- Society of Chemical Industry <http://sci.mond.org>
- SoyBean Site, the Illinois Soybean Association: <http://www.ilsoy.org/>
- Soybeans: Strategic Tools and Resources:
- <http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~stratsoy/new/>
- Tufts University Nutrition Navigator: <http://navigator.tufts.edu/>
- University of California at Davis - R. Paul Singh's Food Engineering Site:
- <http://nachos.engr.ucdavis.edu/~rpsingh/>
- University of California at Davis - Seafood Network Information Centre:
- <http://www-seafood.ucdavis.edu/>
- USDA Home Page: <http://www.usda.gov/>
- USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center: <http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/>
- USDA Food Composition Tables:
- <http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/TopicgrEnv/USDA/USDAFoodCompositionData>
- USDA Nutrient Values of Foods:
- <http://cgi.fatfree.com/cgi-bin/fatfree/usda/usda.cgi>
- US National Center for Health Statistics: <http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/>
- Veggies Unite! <http://www.vegweb.com>
- Wild Blueberries: <http://agri.gov.ns.ca/nsbi/wbic/>
- Wine: <http://www.ee.pdx.edu/~timt/html/wine.html>
-
- 3.FOOD COMPANIES
-
- Campbell Soup Company: <http://www.campbellsoups.com/Welcome1.html>
- Dole 5 A Day <http://www.dole5aday.com/>
- Frito-Lay <http://www.fritolay.com>
- Gerber Baby food: <http://www.gerber.com/>
- Hershey: <http://www.hersheys.com/>
- Kellogs: <http://www.kelloggs.com/>
- Mars' M&Ms Homepage <http://www.baking.m-ms.com>
- McCormick and Co. <http://www.McCormick.com>
- Monsanto: <http://www.monsanto.com>
- Nabisco: <http://www.nabisco.com/>
- Quaker Oats: <http://www.quakeroats.com>
- The Snack food Association: <http://www.usii.net/sfa/>
- NutraSweet: <http://www.nutrasweet.com/>
-
-
- * If anyone knows of any other web sites, email: Paul King at
- <mailto://pking@idirect.com> or Ralph Blanchfield at
- <mailto://jralphb@easynet.co.uk>
-
- 4. FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RELATED MAILING LISTS-
-
- BEEF-L: A mailing list and discussion group for beef specialists
- in university, government and commercial activities.
- <mailto://listproc@listproc.wsu.edu>
-
- CANWINE: is an unmoderated mail discussion group formed to look
- at the whole spectrum of Canadian wines and the Canadian wine
- industry. To subscribe to CANWINE, send the message (no subject
- line): subscribe canwine to: <mailto://canwine-request@his.com>
-
- CHAPHALL: The Chappel-Hall Books mailing list. Chappell-Hall is
- a publishing company that publishes food science books, among others.
- Send an email with the message "subscribe chaphall-fst [your email
- address]" to: <mailto://majordomo@list.chaphall.com>
- example: subscribe chaphall-fst pking@idirect.com
-
- DNH-PILOT The Diet, Nutrition and Health project mailing list
- covers sociology, food science and technology, agricultural economics
- and psychology. Researchers in academic institutions across the
- European Union, hopefully together with industrial partners and with
- some external funding, are involved. To subscribe send email to:
- <mailto://dnh-pilot-request@mailbase.ac.uk>
-
- FDMKTNEWS-MG Once a month you get a short summary of prices and
- availability of foods in the US. Sometimes, comments on new
- regulations, etc. Send email to: almanac@oes.orst.edu, with the
- message: subscribe fdmktmews-mg Food-for-thought ] This list is
- primarily intended as a forum for discussions on all aspects of food
- and eating across different disciplines. The list also provides a
- bulletin board for notices of meetings, employment opportunities, new
- publications etc. <mailto://mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk>
-
- FISH: To subscribe to the Fish Mailing List, send email to
- <mailto://majordomo@angsana.ncs.com.sg> with one of the following
- commands in the body of the message. You may leave the subject line
- blank. To subscribe to the Fish Mailing List enter "subscribe fish"
- (excl using quotes) in the body of your email to them. For a list of
- other commands and subscription options enter: "help" in the body of
- your email. If your mailer adds a signature, then you need to include
- the word "end" at the last line of your message body . Commands in
- the Subject line are NOT processed.<mailto://majordomo@angsana.ncs.com.sg>
-
- FOOD-COMP: This is a list dealing with food composition and data:
- Subscription (handled manually)
- <mailto://food-comp-request@infoods.unu.edu>
- Articles: <mailto://food-comp@infoods.unu.edu>
-
- FOODENG A list for discussion and announcements on food engineering
- topics and events.
- Subscription (automatic): <mailto://listproc@ucdavis.edu>
- with the body of message reading only: "SUBSCRIBE FOODENG yourname".
- Articles: <mailto://foodeng@ucdavis.edu>
-
- FOOD-FOR-THOUGHT is a forum for discussion on all aspects of
- food, and a bulletin board for relevant announcements. Send articles to:
- <mailto://food-for-thought@mailbase.ac.uk>
- Subscription (automatic): <mailto://mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk>
- with the body of message containing only: "JOIN FOOD_FOR-THOUGH yourname"
-
- FOOD-LAW : to discuss latest developments in food law and
- regulatory issues and to share course outlines and curricula. The
- subscribe instructions are: "send the comand: "subscribe food-law
- <your name>" as the only text of an e-mail message to
- <mailto://listserv@listserv@vm1.spcs.umn.edu>
- Articles: <mailto://food-law@vm1.spcs.umn.edu>
-
- FOODSAFE This is a mailing list and discussion group for food safety
- specialists in city, county and other settings. Food safety alerts
- are posted to this list when appropriate. The subscribe instructions
- are: send the command: "subscribe foodsafe yourname youremail" as the
- body of your e-mail message to: <mailto://majordomo@nal.usda.gov>
- Articles (Members only): <mailto://foodsafe@nal.usda.gov>
-
-
- FOODWINE Designed to facilitate discussion among those seriously
- interested in the academic study of food and its accompaniments in
- the 1990's. Send a subscription request to:
- <mailto://listserv@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>
-
- J-FOOD-L Discussion of Japanese food, exchange of recipes.
- <mailto://listserv%jpnknu01.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu>
-
- OZWINE Wines of Australia and New Zealand. To subscribe to
- OZWINE, please send the following command in the body of your email
- letter to <mailto://MAISER@KOALA.CS.COWAN.EDU.AU>
- With "subscribe ozwine <your name>" being the only text of your email.
-
- IFT : This is intended for IFT Food Science Communicators and
- other food scientists and technologists approved by the group. Its
- purpose is to permit very rapid dialogue on fast-breaking public and
- media issues affecting the food science and technology profession.
- <mailto://ift@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
-
- FOODSCI. This is a closed list, restricted to academic food
- science administrators (department chairs, heads, deans or
- directors). Only they may subscribe (and hence receive e-mails), but
- anyone can post to it. It is intended to enable a single notice to be
- sent to them all simultaneously.
- <mailto://foodsci@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
-
- FOOD & NUTRITION SPECIALISTS: <mailto://fnspec_mg@ecn.purdue.edu>
-
- NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY: <mailto://nutepi@db0tuill.bitnet>
-
- 5. RECOMMENDED FOOD SCIENCE AND RELATED TEXTS
-
- The purpose of this section is to provide information on recommended texts
- and reference books which would be useful to both food scientists and non
- food scientists. The people recommending these books are the subscribers to
- sci.bio.food-science. I will accept corrections and new submissions on an
- ongoing basis.
-
- The format of these entries are loosely based on the Journal of Food Science:
- SUBJECT: Author(Year). Title. Edition. City:Publisher. ISBN. Comments.
-
- Where you would normally see "food" as part of the "SUBJECT" field, as in
- "food additives" or "food chemistry", the word "food" is dropped.
-
- ANALYSIS: Nielsen, S. Suzanne, ed. (1994). Introduction to the
- Chemical Analysis of Foods. 1st edition. Boston: Jones and Barlett.
- ISBN 0-86720-826-0. This is an excellent introduction to the field,
- and a good "refresher" even for more experienced food chemists.
-
- ANTIMICROBIALS: Davidson, P.M. and Branen, A.L.(1993).
- Antimicrobials in Foods. 2nd ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. ISBN
- 0-8247-8906-7.
-
- ADDITIVES: Branen, A.L., Davidson, P.M., and Salminen, S.(1990).
- Food Additives. New York: Marcel Dekker. ISBN 0-8247-8046-9.
-
- BIOCHEMISTRY: Matthews and Van Holden (1995). Biochemistry. 2nd ed.
- Benjamin-Cummings. ISBN? Very good, very mechanistic general biochem
- textbook.
-
- BIOCHEMISTRY: Stryer, Lubert (1995). Biochemistry. 4th ed. Freeman
- (?). ISBN? Less mechanistic, but it's pretty much the standard in
- many medical schools.
-
- CHEMISTRY: Belitz, H-D, and W Grosch(1987). Food Chemistry.
- Heidleberg:Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-97373-7. Translated from
- German by Dr D Hadziyev. Title in German: Lehrbuch der
- Lebensmittelchemie (2nd edition).
-
- CHEMISTRY: Fennema, Owen, ed. (199?). Food Chemistry. New York:
- Marcel Dekker. ISBN (Hard) 0-8247-7271-7; (Soft) 0-8247-7449-3.
- Pretty much the standard food chemistry textbook in Food Science
- departments in the United States and Canada.
-
- MICROBIOLOGY: Frazier, W. C., and Dennis C. Westhoff(1988). Food
- Microbiology. 4th Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-021921-4. 539
- pp. Hardcover. 6 parts. Part1: Food and microbes. Part 2:Food
- Preservation. Part 3:Contamination and spoilage. Part 4:Foods and
- Enzymes Produced by Microbes. Part 5:Foodborne disease. Part
- 6:Sanitation, control, and inspection.
-
- NUTRITION: Newstrom, Harvey(1993). The Nutrients Catalog. Jefferson,
- North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN: 0-89950-784-0.
- Hardbound, 538 pages, 2&3 columns of 8-point type, 5 appendices,
- index, $65.00. Monologs on 39 vitamins (subdivided into 185
- different chemicals), 43 minerals, 24 aminos, and 6 macronutrients.
- covering nutrient names, classifications, different chemical forms,
- deficiency symptoms, side-effects, toxicity symptoms, inhibiting
- factors, helping factors, food sources with measured content levels,
- +/- variance in content measurements, possible application uses,
- nutritional dosages, therapeutic dosages, experimental dosages,
- toxic dosages, 11 different versions of the USRDA and related
- regulations, and special warnings.
-
- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY: Fessenden, R J, and J S Fessenden(1986). Organic
- Chemistry. 3rd ed. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth, Inc. ISBN:
- 0-534-05088-3.
-
- GENERAL REFERNCE: Budavari, Susan, ed.(1989). The Merck Index: An
- encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals. 11th Edition.
- Rahway, NJ: Merck & Co. ISBN: 911910-28-X. Contains extensive
- information on just about every organic compound for which there is
- either a use for, or a topic of scientific interest.
-
- 6. BOOK PUBLISHERS' WEB SITES
- Aspen Publishers <http://www.aspenpub.com/>
- National Academy Press <http://www.nap.edu>
-
-
- III. A LIST OF COMMON ABBREVIATIONS
-
- It is not expected that you know and use all of the abbreviations
- listed below. This list should be used as a reference in the event you
- come across abbreviations that confuse you, or can't remember.
-
- They include names of organisations, scientific abbreviations, and
- common chemical symbols, derived largely from the Merck Index.
-
- References given in braces {}. Where {Stryer} appears, refer to
- Lubert Stryer's _Biochemistry, _ 2nd Edition (Freeman). Where no
- reference appears the shorthand is suggested by the author. For
- suggestions and additions email to <pking@idirect.com>. For brevity all
- except the most common organic compounds are left out. Also left out are
- most of the units of measurement; both metric and Imperial.
-
- Also not included on this list are the generic abbreviations for
- the Internet, such as BTW, IMHO, or RTFM. You can get those in
- newsgroups of the "news.*" hierarchy, notably news.answers,
- news.announce.newusers, and for further help on these and other matters
- having strictly to do with the internet, post your queries to:
- news.newusers.questions.
-
- ON SUPERSCRIPTS AND SUBSCRIPTS: There has been some concern in the
- past on the matter of the transmission of superscripts and subscripts
- over the Internet. Since we are all limited to the ASCII character set,
- one cannot easily change typeface or fonts in a way that would be
- transmittable in the bodies of email messages or news messages. A case
- in point is the variable which reports the "heat effect" or
- "sterilisation effect" of a thermal process, called F. F is usually
- reported in the context of two other variables, z (the change in
- temperature needed for a tenfold increase in the amount of bacterial
- spores killed), and T (the core temperature of the can). In normal
- circumstances, we would write F with z as the superscript and T as the
- subscript. If we followed the old conventions used in this FAQ for
- reporting F, we would have to write: F^z_T, which appears illegible.
- Instead, we suggest a new convention which will make things clear for
- everyone. Report your variable with your parameters "spelled out" in
- parentheses. For example: F(z=10 degC; T=121.1 degC). Since the ASCII
- character set also has no "degree" symbol, these have to be "spelled
- out" as well. The abbreviation for "degrees Celsius" was taken from the
- list below.
-
- ^ Exponent (as in 6.022x10^23, i^(-1/2), e^k)
- _ Subscript (as in E_p (potential energy))
- / Fraction (as in 1/2); as below to separate abbreviations
- (as in UDP/UMP/UTP); per (as in km/h)
- ~ Approximately equal to; proportional to
- = Equal to
- != Not equal to {C++ programming convention}
- == Equivalent {C++ programming convention}
- !== Not equivalent
- > Greater than
- >> Much greater than
- < Less than (the Pac Man always eats the larger value :-)
- << Much smaller than
- >= Greater than or equal {programming convention}
- <= Less than or equal {programming convention}
- +/- Plus or minus (note the special use of the slash)
- || Parallel
- ! Factorial
- @ At (as in "500g of lettuce @ $0.45/kilogram")
- * or x Multiplication
-
- A Adenine; Adenosine; absorbance (extinction) {Merck}; The
- conjugate acid of an acid-base pair
- Ac Acetyl; Acetic {Merck}
- AcOAc Anhydrous Acetic Acid
- AcOH Acetic Acid {Merck}
- AcOEt Ethyl Acetate {Merck}
- Acetyl CoA Acetyl coenzyme A
- AcylSCoA Acyl coenzyme A
- ACS American Chemical Society {Merck}
- ADP Adenosine diphosphate
- AIFST Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology
- alc Alcohol(ic); Ethanol; Ethyl Alcohol {Merck}
- alk Alkali(ne)
- AMP Adenosine Monophosphate
- amt(s) Amount(s) {Merck}
- aq aqueous
- ATCC American Type Culture Collection
- atm atmospheres; atmoshperic
- ATP Adenosine triphosphate
- ATPase Adenosine triphosphatase
- AW Atomic weight
- Aw Water activity
-
- B Asparagine or aspartic acid {Stryer}; The conjugate base of an
- acid-base pair
- BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)
- bp Base pair; boiling point; boils; boils at; boiling
- at <temp> {Merck}
- BP British Pharmacopeia {Merck}
- BPC British Pharmaceutical Codex {Merck}
- BOD Biochemical oxygen demand {Merck}
- BSA Bovine Serum Albumin
- BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
- Btu British thermal units
- Bu Butyl
-
- cal Calorie(s)
- calc Calculate(d) {Merck}
- cAMP Cyclic AMP
- cc Cubic centimeter (milliliter)
- CDP Cytidine 5'-diphosphate
- cf Compare (confer) {Merck}
- cGMP Cyclic GMP
- CHO Carbohydrate
- CI Color Index (British) {Merck}
- Ci Curie {Merck}
- CIFST Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology
- CMC Carboxymethylcellulose {cf Merck: CM-cellulose}
- CMP Cytidine 5'-monophosphate
- CNS Central Nervous system
- CoA/CoASH Coenzyme A
- Conc Concentrated; Concentration {cf Merck: concn}
- Cp Heat capacity, constant pressure
- CP Chemically pure {Merck}
- cpd Compound; critical-point drying
- CTP Cytidine 5'-triphosphate
- Cv Heat capacity, constant volume
-
- d Density {Merck}
- d- dextrorotatory {Merck}
- D12 12th Decimal Reduction
- deg Degree(s)
- degC Degrees Celcius
- degF Degrees Fahrenheit
- degK degrees Kelvin
- degR degrees Roentgen
- deriv Derivative
- DFO Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
- dil Dilute(d) {Merck}
- DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNAase Deoxyribonuclease
- DMSO Dimethylsulfoxide
- dp Degree of polymerisation
- ds Double stranded
-
- E Glutamic Acid {Stryer}; Exponent (as in 6.022 x 10E23)(see also
- the entry for ^ )
- (E)- Entgen (German for opposite) in naming cpds
- ECSAFoST East, Central and Southern African Federation of Food
- Science & Technology
- ed Edition {Merck}; editor
- eds Editors {Merck}; editions
- ED Effective dose
- EDTA Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. Also: Edathamil; Havidote;
- Edetic acid; and Versene Acid. {Merck}
- EFFST European Federation for Food Science & Technology
- eg For example (exempli gratia) {Merck}
- ELISA Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
- EPA Environmental Protection Agency (of the United States)
- eq/eqn Equation {Merck}
- equilib Equilibrium {Merck}
- equiv Equivalent
- Et- Ethyl
- et al And others (et alii) {Merck}
- EtOH Ethanol; Ethyl Alcohol
- evap Evaporated; evaporation {cf. Merck: evapn}
- EU European Union (was the European Common Market)
-
- F The Sterilisation Effect (see notes above on scripting)
- FAC Food Advisory Committee (of the United Kingdom)
- FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation (of the United Nations)
- FAQ Frequently-asked question file (this file)
- fd Freeze-dried; Freeze-drying
- FDA Food and Drug Administration (of the US; also USFDA)
- FD&C The US Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act {Merck}
- ff Pages following (as in "see page 23, ff")
- FIFSTA Federation of Institutes of Food Science & Technology of ASEAN
- fp Freezing Point
- FP Flavoprotein
- FS Food Science
- FT Fourier Transform(ation)
-
- G1P Glucose phosphate
- G3P Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate
- G6P Glucose-6-phosphate
- GABA Gamma aminobutyric Acid
- GC Gas chromatography/ Gas Chromatograph
- GDP Guanosine-5'-Diphosphate
- gi Gastrointestinal (tract)
- GlcA Gluconic Acid {Merck}
- GMP Guanosine-5'-Monophosphate (guanylic acid) {Merck}; Good
- Manufacturing Practice
- GTP Guanosine-5'-Triphosphate
-
- HACCP Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
- HAZOP Hazard and Operability Studies
- Hb Hemoglobin
- HbCO Carbon Monoxide Haemoglobin
- HbO2 Oxyhaemoglobin
- HDL High-density lipoprotein
- HPLC High-Pressure (performance, power)Liquid Chromatography {Merck}
- HSA Human Serum Albumin
- HWC Health and Welfare Canada
-
- IARC International Agency for Research on Cancer {Merck}
- ICC Interstate Commerce Commission (USA) {Merck}
- IDP Inosine-5'-diphosphate {Merck}
- ie That is; that is to say (id est) {Merck}
- IEF Isoelectric Focusing {Merck}
- IFIC International Food Information Council
- IFSTI Institute of Food Science & Technology of Ireland
- IFST Institute of Food Science and Technology
- ig Intragastric
- IMP Inosine-5'-monophosphate {Merck}
- incl Including {Merck}; included
- inorg Inorganic
- insol Insoluble
- IR Infra-red
- ISO Internal Organisation for Standardisation {Merck}
- ISO 9000 An extension of GMP (which see) and TQM (which see),
- expanded to an internationally recognised set of quality
- control standards through improved documentation systems.
- ITP Inosine-5'-triphosphate {Merck}
- IU International Unit
- IUC International Union of Chemistry {Merck}
- IUFoST International Union of Food Science & Technology
- IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
- iv Intravenous
-
- J Joule(s)
-
- l- levorotatory
- LC Lethal Concentration {Merck}
- LC50 LC for 50% of animals tested
- LD Lethal Dose {Merck}
- LD50 LD for 50% of animals tested
- LDL Low-Density lipoproteins
- log Common logarithm (Base 10)
- logn Base n logarithm, where n is a base number (as in log2)
- loi Limit of impurities {Merck}
- ln Natural logarithm
- LPS Lipopolysaccharide
-
- MAC Maximum allowable Concentration {Merck}
- MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (of the UK)
- max Maximum; maxima {Merck}
- Mb Myoglobin
- MbO2 Oxymyoglobin {Merck}
- MCA Manufacturing Chemists Association (USA)
- mcg Microgram
- mCi Millicurie
- Me/Met Methyl
- MetOH/MeOH Methanol; methyl alcohol
- mfg/mfr Manufacture; manufacturing {Merck}
- min Minimum; minutes
- MLD Minimum lethal dose
- MO Microorganism; Molecular Orbital
- MOA Ministry of Agriculture (Canada)
- MOEE Ministry of Environment and Energy (Canada)
- mp Melting point
- ms- Meso (internally compensated) {Merck}
- MS Mass spectrometry
- mw Molecular weight
-
- n The Omega carbon (as in n-6 for "omega-6"); Avogandro's
- number; number of moles (as in PV=nRT).
- NAD+/NADH Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (reduced)
- NADP/NADPH Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced)
- NBS National Bureau of Standards (USA)
- NCAHF National Council Against Health Fraud (USA)
- NCTC National Collection of Type Cultures (USA)
- NDP/NMP/NTP N-5'-mono/di/triphosphate, where N is any nucleoside
- ng Nanogram
- NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health {Merck}
- nm Nanometers
- NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- NRDC National Research Development Corporation (USA) {Merck}
- NSAID Non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs {Merck}
- NSC National Service Center (USA) {Merck}
- NSERC National Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
- NSF National Science Foundation (USA)
- NZIFST New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology
-
- o- Ortho
- O Oxygen; denoting attachment to an oxygen atom {Merck}
- OAA Oxaloacetate
- OD Optical density
- OSHA Occupational Health and Safety Act (USA) {Merck}
- OsM Osmolar
-
- p- Para
- Pa Pascal
- PABA Para-Aminobenzoic Acid
- PAGE Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- pH The negative base-10 log of the H+ concentration
- pK The negative base-10 logarithm of the equilibrium constant,
- K, for the reaction in question.
- ppb Parts per billion
- ppm Parts per million
- ppt Precipitate(d)
- Pr n-Propyl
-
- Q Glutamine {Stryer}; Coenzyme Q (ubiquinone)
- QA Quality Assurance
- QC Quality Control
- qv which see (quod vide) {Merck}
-
- R Arginine {Stryer}; Universal gas constant; alkyl group {Merck}
- (R)- Rectus (Right) (naming groups around a central carbon) {Merck}
- RIST Radioimmunosorbent test {Merck}
- RNA Ribonucleic acid
- hnRNA Heterogenous nuclear RNA
- mRNA Messenger RNA
- nRNA Nuclear RNA
- rRNA Ribosomal RNA
- snRNA Small Nuclear RNA
- tRNA Transfer (soluble) RNA
- RNase Ribonuclease
- RNI Recommended Nutrient Intakes for Canadians
- RTECS Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances
-
- s- symmetrical
- S Serine {Stryer}; Sulfur; denoting attachment to S
- (S)- Sinister (left) (Opposite of R) {Merck}
- sc Subcutaneous
- SDS Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
- sec Seconds
- sec- Secondary; attachment to secondary carbon
- sg/sp gr Specific gravity
- SI International System of Units
- sol Soluble; solubility
- ss Single stranded
- STP Standard Temperature and Pressure
- sym- Symmetrical
-
- T Threonine {Stryer}; Temperature
- T(1/2) Half-life
- TDP/TMP/TTP Thymidine di/mono/triphosphate {Merck}
- TDT Thermal death time (for MO's (which see))
- temp Temperature
- tert- Tertiary; denoting attachment to tertiary carbon
- Tris tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane
- TQM Total-Quality Management
-
- UDP/UMP/UTP Uridine di/mono/triphosphate
- UKFFoST UK Federation for Food Science and Technology
- USD United States Dispensatory {Merck}
- USDA United States Department of Agriculture {Merck}
- USFDA The United States Food and Drug Administration (also FDA)
- USP United States Pharmacopeia {Merck}
- uv Ultraviolet
-
- v Volume; volt(s)
- VLDL Very Low-Density Lipoproteins
- vol Volume
- vs Versus
- v/v % Volume in volume {Merck}
-
- WHO World Health Organisation (United Nations)
- wt weight
- w/v % Weight in volume {Merck}
- w/w % Weight in weight {Merck}
-
- Z Glutamine or glutamic acid {Stryer}; Z-Value - the change in
- temperature needed to change TDT by a factor of 10.
- (Z)- Zusammen (German for together) - or "Zame Zide" from my
- organic chemistry days :-) {Merck}
-
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