Consumption patterns and labelling of fish and fishery products in Poland after the EU accession

Food Control ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 843-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzanna Pieniak ◽  
Monika Kołodziejczyk ◽  
Barbara Kowrygo ◽  
Wim Verbeke
Keyword(s):  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Fishery Products ◽  
Fish And Fishery Products ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Basic Needs and Absolute Poverty in Lithuania: Method and Estimation

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Jekaterina Navickė ◽  
Aušra Čižauskaitė ◽  
Ugnė Užgalė
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Poverty Indicators ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Poverty Levels ◽  
The Eu

We propose a methodology for estimating the cost of the basic needs and applying it on the data for Lithuania in a decade after the EU accession (2006-2016). The basic food costs account for the minimal nutrition requirements, while the cost of other needs is estimated in relative terms, taking actual consumption patterns in the population into account. A reduction in the cost of the basic needs for additional members of the household is accounted for by a specially constructed consumption-based equivalence scale estimated on the HBS data. We show that the cost of the basic needs in Lithuania is close to the relative at-risk-of-poverty line (at 60% of the median equivalized disposable income) for a single adult but exceeds it for larger households. The share of people with income below the basic needs’ cost was above the relative at-risk-of-poverty levels in the EU-SILC data for all years, except of 2016. Albeit, the actual level might be lower due to the under-reporting of shadow income in the EU-SILC. Ability to meet basic needs and related absolute poverty indicators shows anti-cyclical dynamics in times of the economic growth and recession. Children are consistently the most deprived group of the Lithuanian population when it comes to meeting the basic needs. The official absolute poverty indicator used in Lithuania under-estimates the cost of the basic needs for households with more than one member.

Methods for Anisakis simplex detection in fish and fishery products

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 6049-2018
Author(s):  
Kochanowski M. ◽  
Różycki M. ◽  
Dąbrowska J. ◽  
Bilska-Zając E. ◽  
Karamon J. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anisakis Simplex ◽  
Frequent Occurrence ◽  
Allergic Reactions ◽  
Fish Products ◽  
Fish Muscles ◽  
Fishery Products ◽  
Fish And Fishery Products ◽  
Target Analyte

Anisakis simplex is a zoonotic nematode which can cause human anisakiasis. Furthermore, A. simplex allergens, even of dead larvae can cause allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Due to the frequent occurrence in fish muscles and pathogenicity, A. simplex is a serious danger for fish products consumers. Therefore, it is necessary to examine fish and fish products for the presence of these parasites before placing on the market. The purpose of this paper is review of methods for A. simplex detection in fish and fishery products. These methods differ according to the effectiveness and type of the target analyte. They also have different suitability for examination of matrices with different properties. Moreover this paper presents legislations associated with A. simplex detection. .

scholarly journals Innovative Seafood Preservation Technologies: Recent Developments

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Michael G. Kontominas ◽  
Anastasia V. Badeka ◽  
Ioanna S. Kosma ◽  
Cosmas I. Nathanailides
Keyword(s):  
Unsaturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Life Extension ◽  
Processing Technologies ◽  
High Quality Protein ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Seafood Products ◽  
Fishery Products ◽  
Food Commodities ◽  
Fish And Fishery Products ◽  
Natural Preservatives

Fish and fishery products are among the food commodities of high commercial value, high-quality protein content, vitamins, minerals and unsaturated fatty acids, which are beneficial to health. However, seafood products are highly perishable and thus require proper processing to maintain their quality and safety. On the other hand, consumers, nowadays, demand fresh or fresh-like, minimally processed fishery products that do not alter their natural quality attributes. The present article reviews the results of studies published over the last 15 years in the literature on: (i) the main spoilage mechanisms of seafood including contamination with pathogens and (ii) innovative processing technologies applied for the preservation and shelf life extension of seafood products. These primarily include: high hydrostatic pressure, natural preservatives, ozonation, irradiation, pulse light technology and retort pouch processing.

scholarly journals Competitiveness as the Ability to Adjust: the EU–10 Exports Structure and Its Convergence to the German Pattern

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-133
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Czarny ◽  
Małgorzata Żmuda
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Standard International Trade Classification ◽  
Eu Accession ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Eu

Competitiveness of a nation is associated with a set of characteristics that enable structural adjustment to global technological trends, and as a consequence, a rise in the living standard of its citizens. For catching-up economies, GDP convergence towards the most developed economies, constituting their developmental goal, relies upon its ability to shift production and exports structure towards specialization based on knowledge and innovation. Thus, in this paper, competitiveness is evaluated through structural adjustments of exports, and for catching-up economies (the EU–10 states) it may be understood as the ability to close the structural gap to the most developed countries (here: the strongest EU member economy: Germany). We analyse the evolution of the EU–10 nations’ exports specialization in the years 2000 and 2014, checking whether the convergence towards the German exports pattern can be observed, and which of the analysed economies shows the best ability to shift its exports structure towards high-tech specialization. We look additionally at exports structures in 2004 (the year of EU-accession of eight out of 10 countries in the sample) and in 2009 (world trade collapse during the economic crisis). The analysis is based on the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) concept by Balassa (1965). We use the UN Trade Statistics data in the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), Rev. 4. Commodity groups are classified following the methodology developed by Wysokińska (1997, p. 18).

scholarly journals Shrimp Export from Benin vs Food Safety in Europe: Reconcilable Interests?

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200
Author(s):  
Kévine Kindji ◽  
Michael Faure
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Shrimp Industry ◽  
Fishery Products ◽  
The Eu

In order to secure their fishery products market share in the EU, third countries, especially the developing ones, tend to transplant EU requirements into their domestic legal order. In reality, theses transplanted laws do not correspond to measures to reach a level of protection needed by the country of destination. Based upon the case of Benin, this paper intends to show that when these legal transplants are adversely made, they can in some cases have disastrous effects. It can be argued that an unintended result of EU policy was that it contributed to the collapse of the shrimp industry in Benin. The paper moreover argues that despite the stringency of the EU requirements, the implementation of its control policy might inadequately protect European consumers of shrimp.

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