The Perils of Bula Matari: Constraint and Power in the Colonial State

This review article argues that analyses of the food security implications of emerging powers in Africa could be strengthened through foregrounding the issue of perspective. Researchers working in this area should engage with food security opinion contests, and avoid obscuring these debates moving forward.     

“We All Have to Eat”: Experiential Learning in Courses on Food and Hunger

Community-based learning offers students the opportunity to understand important concepts through their own experiences. Two courses on food and hunger in society, one a first-year seminar of 12 students and one an upper-level psychology course of 20 students, made site visits to local farms, markets, and a soup kitchen while reading about the issues and discussing them in class. At the end of the semester, each student wrote a short self-evaluation in which they were invited to discuss the aspects of the course that affected them most. Student responses suggest that the experiential component of the course was disproportionately powerful, impelling many of them to make changes in their lives as a result.     

Market coordination and the making of conventions: qualities,consumption and sustainability in the agro-food industry

Abstract

The coordination of activity across sites and spaces of production and consumption is a key concern for economic analysis. Joining a revival in the application of convention theory to agro-food scholarship, this paper considers complementary insights – related principally to ‘the economy of qualities’ – that animate different aspects of e/valuation, competition and alignment. These understandings are extended by more thoroughly acknowledging contemporary developments in consumption scholarship. The arguments are advanced through a case study of the orange juice market, linking its current high-carbon trajectory to the commercial and cultural significance of freshness. The analysis offers new insights into distributed processes of qualification as well as the mechanisms through which conventions are assembled and sustained. Finally, a more integrated approach to food production and consumption is outlined.     

Chemical Contamination of Soft Drinks in Sealed Plastic Bottles by Environmental Stress Cracking

Abstract:  A contamination of soft drinks in sealed bottles by organic solvents is reported: closed bottles full of soft drinks were accidentally placed on a cardboard soaked with thinner and the organic fluid subsequently fissured the bottom of the bottles and penetrated into the soft drinks without any apparent leakage of the soft drinks. Experiments were carried out to simulate the process: the penetration of different organic solvents into soft drinks through the bottom of closed bottles was tested. The penetration occurred only when the closed bottles contained carbonated soft drinks (CSD), indicating that inner pressure is a necessary condition for the fissuring of the bottles. This paper discusses environmental stress cracking of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles by organic solvents and migration of chemicals to CSD. Experiments were conducted to determine the conditions in which PET can be permeable to poisoning organic products.     

我国食品安全委员会的构建

我国食品安全监管体制缺乏规范有效的协调机制,监管部门的职能定位模糊不清,中央与地方关系有待进一步厘清。应借鉴美国、日本的食品安全监管制度,结合新近颁布的《食品安全法》和即将成立的国家食品安全委员会,完善我国食品安全监管的配套制度。     

从特产、食俗歌看浙江饮食文化

独具江南水乡平原、海岛特色的地理环境,孕育了浙江“饭稻羹鱼”的生产、生活方式。“饭稻羹鱼”构成了浙江饮食文化的典型基础特征。各地广为流传的特产、食俗歌从不同层面展示了浙江地域特色的饮食结构、饮食习俗和民俗生活。这些特产、食俗歌不仅是我们研究、传承和弘扬浙地传统饮食文化的史料,也是拓展以地方食文化为主题旅游的精美广告。     

新时期我国粮食安全问题研究

粮食安全是国家安全战略的重要组成部分,是保持国民经济健康、持续、快速发展的重要保障。影响我国粮食安全的主要问题多种多样,必须在认真分析的基础上加以解决。确保我国粮食安全的主要对策是要适应新形势,树立新型粮食安全观念;要切实保护耕地,提高农民种粮积极性;因地制宜,不断优化粮食生产的区域布局;以农业科技为支撑,不断提高粮食综合生产能力;深化粮食流通体制改革,建立新型粮食流通体系;加强粮食宏观调控,确保国家粮食安全。     

Participation rationales,regulatory enforcement,and compliance motivations in a voluntary program context

This article extends the study of regulatory compliance motivations from “traditional” regulatory settings to a government-sponsored voluntary one. We argue that the rationale(s) which motivate participants to engage a voluntary program likely shape which motivations drive them toward (or away from) program compliance. Our study examines the possible influence of program participation rationales alongside that of regulatory agents' enforcement styles and strategies. Leveraging a national survey of certified United States Department of Agriculture organic producers, we find that the more a producer pursues organic certification to increase profits, the more likely they are to report deterrent fears as an important compliance motivation. In contrast, the more a producer becomes certified to support the organic movement, the more heavily they weigh a personal sense of duty to comply. We discuss the implications of these, and other, study findings for compliance motivations theory and voluntary program integrity.     

华蟾素肝动脉栓塞治疗对中晚期原发性肝癌患者生存质量的影响

目的 评估肝动脉华蟾素注射液栓塞治疗对中晚期肝癌患者生存质量的影响。方法 将80例中晚期原发性肝癌患者随机分为治疗组和对照组,每组40例。两组患者均采用肝动脉栓塞术治疗,治疗组和对照组患者分别给予华蟾素注射液和表阿霉素注射液灌注。治疗前及TAE术后6周,分别采用美国东部肿瘤协作组ZPS评分标准（Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, Zubrod-ECOG-WHO, ZPS）、中文版FACT-Hep量表（Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Hepatobiliary, FACT-Hep）评价患者的生存质量。结果 两组治疗前ZPS评分、FACT-Hep量表各维度评分及总分比较,差异均无统计学意义(P>0.05)。TAE术后6 d,治疗组ZPS评分显著改善(P<0.01);治疗后6周,治疗组FACT-Hep量表各维度评分及总分均显著高于对照组(P<0.05,或P<0.01)。结论 华蟾素注射液肝动脉给药联合碘油栓塞治疗方案可改善中晚期肝癌患者生活质量。     

对我国食品召回制度有关问题的立法建议

食品召回制度是消除缺陷食品危害风险的制度。实施食品召回制度的目的是要及时收回缺陷食品,避免进入流通领域的缺陷食品损害消费者人身安全的事件发生或扩大,维护消费者利益。采用比较法的方法,通过比较美国、加拿大、澳大利亚及我国上海缺陷食品召回的有关规定,就建立我国食品召回制度所涉及的主要问题提出立法建议。