Current situation and perspectives of ready-to-eat food/meal suppliers

Abstract Working Group 2 of the Healthy Diet Research Committee of International Life Sciences Institute Japan (WG2) assessed the concept and practice of healthy eating in the ready-to-eat food/meal industry in Japan. WG2 interviewed 14 arbitrarily selected member companies that included “health” or “nutrition” in their management policy, and sent a questionnaire to 338 member companies of the Japan Ready-Made Meal Association. Ready-to-eat food/meal suppliers mainly referred to Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese, the Japanese Food Guide, and/or Healthy Japan 21 for their menu construction. They increased dietary fiber, variety, vegetables, whole-grain cereals, millet rice, and soy bean products; and reduced energy, carbohydrates, and salt in “healthy” food. They tended to avoid making direct appeals to health. Many companies reduced the salt content without drawing attention to the practice. They continually strive to improve flavor as the single most important factor for selling healthy food. The cycling of menus is used to increase diversity in food consumption. These industries require both academia and the government to define priorities for increasing and decreasing particular nutrients as the main targets and to establish the maximum time for balancing each nutrient.

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Segmenting Hungarian people based on healthy eating

Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce ◽

10.19041/apstract/2019/3-4/8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (3-4) ◽

pp. 65-72

Author(s):

Veronika Keller

Keyword(s):

Healthy Eating ◽

Health Sector ◽

Hierarchical Cluster ◽

Well Being ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Overweight And Obesity ◽

Healthy Food ◽

Unhealthy Food ◽

Targeted Marketing ◽

The Government

Relying on customer trends healthy eating, which is one aspect of healthy lifestyle is becoming more and more popular. The aim of this study was to understand the healthy eating style of Hungarian adult consumers. An online empirical research with a sample of 1563 respondents (58.7% females and 41.3% males) was conducted in November 2018. Considering healthy eating two factors, namely the choice of healthy foods and the avoidance of unhealthy foods could be distinguished. A hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted to segment consumers. Four groups of consumers were identified: unhealthy food avoiders (20.3%), rejecters (11.8%), neutrals (26.2%) and healthy food choosers (14.7%). Unhealthy food avoiders are seniors. Rejecters are blue collar workers and have financial problems. Healthy food choosers live in families with children over 10 and do not have weight problems. This study is useful for the health sector and the government since targeted marketing programs can be planned to change eating behavior. To decrease overweight and obesity is the goal of all society, especially in developed countries. To increase the well-being of people and their quality of life educating social marketing campaigns are necessary with the aim of raising their awareness and explaining the basic principles of a healthy diet. JEL Classification: 112, M30, M39

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A six-week healthy eating intervention with family engagement improves food knowledge and preferences but not dietary diversity among urban preschool children in Sri Lanka

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980021001877 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Fathima Sirasa ◽

Lana Mitchell ◽

Aslan Azhar ◽

Anoma Chandrasekara ◽

Neil Harris

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Nutrition Education ◽

Healthy Eating ◽

Child Nutrition ◽

Dietary Diversity ◽

Family Engagement ◽

Food Preferences ◽

Healthy Food ◽

Food Knowledge ◽

The Impact

Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention (MCI) on children’s dietary diversity and its impact pathway components of children’s food knowledge and healthy food preferences. Design: A six-week cluster randomised controlled trial with a MCI consisting of child nutrition education plus family engagement, through parental nutrition education, meal preparation and tasting was compared with two groups: single component intervention (SCI) of child nutrition education, and control, conducted during February to July 2018. Preschool centres were randomly assigned to one of the three arms. Children’s food knowledge, healthy food preferences and dietary diversity scores were collected. Intervention effects were analysed using a pre-post analysis and a difference-in-difference model. Setting: Fourteen preschool centres in an urban area of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka Participants: Child-parent dyads of children aged 4-6 years. Final analyses included 306 (for food knowledge and preferences) and 258 (for dietary diversity) dyads. Results: MCI significantly influenced the impact pathways to children’s dietary diversity by increasing children’s food knowledge and healthy food preferences scores by 3.76 and 2.79 (P<0.001) respectively, but not the dietary diversity score (P=0.603), compared to control arm. Relative to SCI, MCI significantly improved children’s food knowledge score by 1.10 (P<0.001), but no significant effects were noted for other outcome variables. Conclusion: Improved food knowledge and preferences require a positive food environment and time to develop into healthy eating behaviours. Research into dietary diversity should broaden to incorporate the contextual roles of the home and general food environments to more completely understand food choices of children.

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A review of domestic waste management policy and law in Singapore

Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law ◽

10.4337/apjel.2021.01.04 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 90-119

Author(s):

Rosie Syme

Keyword(s):

Waste Management ◽

Management System ◽

Waste Incineration ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Management Policy ◽

Domestic Waste ◽

Waste Management System ◽

Waste Management Policy ◽

Primary Means ◽

The Government

An effective waste management system is, and has always been, essential infrastructure, particularly given the potential for waste to adversely impact the surrounding environment. In recent decades, however, there has been growing awareness of the scale, breadth and immediacy of those adverse impacts, and of the unsustainability of the enormous (and increasing) amount of waste society generates. Governments around the world have mobilised and there has been a widespread shift towards policies promoting circular economies, waste minimisation and maximised resource efficiency. Singapore is a case in point; despite having a traditionally high waste output and a waste management system dependent on waste incineration as the primary means of disposal, Singapore has committed to a zero waste future. This article presents a review of domestic waste management policy and law in Singapore. Several gaps in the legal framework are identified and considered against the broader context, leading to the conclusion that there is a material environmental vulnerability in the legal framework that should be redressed in order to entrench environmental protections and to align the law with Singapore's policy ambitions. Notwithstanding this deficiency, it is hard not to be optimistic about the future of domestic waste management in Singapore, as the government has made an ambitious policy commitment and appears to be pursuing it with vigour.

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Dietary Assimilation among Mexican Children in Immigrant Households: Code-switching and Healthy Eating across Social Institutions

Journal of Health and Social Behavior ◽

10.1177/0022146518809995 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 601-624 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Molly Dondero ◽

Jennifer Van Hook ◽

Michelle L. Frisco ◽

Molly A. Martin

Keyword(s):

Healthy Eating ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Healthy Food ◽

Code Switching ◽

Institutional Settings ◽

Health And Nutrition ◽

Mexican Children ◽

Advance Theory ◽

Health Assimilation

Immigrant health assimilation is often framed as a linear, individualistic process. Yet new assimilation theory and structural theories of health behavior imply variation in health assimilation as immigrants and their families interact with different US social institutions throughout the day. We test this idea by analyzing how two indicators of dietary assimilation—food acculturation and healthy eating—vary throughout the day as Mexican children in immigrant households consume food in different institutional settings. Using individual fixed-effects models and data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we find that Mexican children in immigrant households (N = 2,337) engage in “dietary code-switching,” eating more acculturated but not necessarily less healthy food in schools and more acculturated but less healthy food in restaurants compared to homes. Findings advance theory and knowledge about how social institutions condition dietary assimilation in particular and health assimilation more broadly.

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An Experimental Demonstration of a Multi-element Flame Photometer: Determination of Salt Concentration in Soy Sauce

International Journal of Chemistry ◽

10.5539/ijc.v8n1p25 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 25 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hiu Tung Chu ◽

Spencer E. Taylor

Keyword(s):

Salt Content ◽

Direct Analysis ◽

Atomic Emission ◽

Soy Sauce ◽

Flame Photometry ◽

Emission Spectrometry ◽

Wide Range ◽

Group 2 ◽

The Uk

The routine determination of some group 1 and group 2 metals is important because of their biological, physiological and industrial relevance. Flame atomic emission spectrometry, or flame photometry (FP), is well-suited to the determination of several alkali and alkaline earth metals which are easily ionized in a gas flame. Here, we consider the application of flame photometry as a simple but sensitive analytical method which is normally restricted to the determination of one element at a time. We have demonstrated the use of a new multi-element instrument for the simultaneous determination of four cations, namely Li+, Na+, K+ and Ca2+ in six different brands of soy sauce currently available in the UK. The Na+ concentrations are compared with quoted nutrition values given on the product labels, and found to be in very good agreement for “low-salt” soy sauce, but some departures were noted in the higher salt products, the present results indicating higher salt content than the supplied data. Li+ concentrations were below the detection limit (i.e., <1 mg/L under the conditions used in this study). This demonstration study has shown multi-element flame photometry to be a straightforward means of analysing water-based products that could be more widely adopted for many different applications. Typical maximum concentrations for the direct analysis of aqueous solutions were found to be 50 mg/L (Li+), 200 mg/L (Na+, K+) and 1000 mg/L (Ca2+). Although not the primary goal of this study, we noted some variance between the present results and values quoted on some of the products. This may relate to the use of indirect methods for estimating salt (sodium) concentrations. The use of flame photometry, however, would provide a rapid measurement of important cations in a wide range of applications.

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PENGINGKARAN HAK MASYARAKAT ADAT ATAS TANAH ULAYAT OLEH KEBIJAKAN KEHUTANAN

HUMANIKA ◽

10.21831/hum.v8i1.21006 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Setiati Widihastuti

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Natural Resources ◽

The State ◽

Natural Resources Management ◽

Management Policy ◽

Resources Management ◽

Forestry Policy ◽

The Government ◽

Normative Aspect

Forest is the part of customary system of the tribe society. However, the forest management done by them is not facilitated in the forestry policy. The centralistic forestry policy causes the overlapping conception of the tribe forest to the state forest. While it formal normative aspect causes the acces of the tribes to the forest closed and causes reduction of wisdom-based supervision conducted by them. In fact, the community wisdom-based supervision in the socio-culture potential needing a revitalization and development as the new basis of the change of natural resources management policy which is recently controlled by the goverment proved to be the cause of law and economy harassment to the tribes society of Indonesia. Now we need to change the perception about the forest natural recource management policy controlled only by the government of the forestry instances. It should be the policy based on the community and its development principles to realize the regulation of the forest natural resources consumption. Therefore, the area division is needed to overcome the problems.

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Fisheries management policy in Indonesia’s Exclusive Economic Zone area

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/869/1/012001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 869 (1) ◽

pp. 012001

Author(s):

R Pramoda ◽

B V Indahyanti ◽

N Shafitri ◽

A Zulham ◽

S Koeshendrajana ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Fisheries Management ◽

Exclusive Economic Zone ◽

Management Policy ◽

Fish Resources ◽

International Policies ◽

Economic Zone ◽

The Government ◽

Regional Fisheries Management Organizations ◽

International Conventions ◽

The Unclos

Abstract The existing fisheries management within the Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is based upon several regulations derived from international conventions, national regulations, as well as conventions mutually agreed by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations members, which is intended to ensure that fish resources in the EEZ area can be managed optimally and sustainably. The sole purpose of this qualitative research is to examine national and international policies that regulate fisheries management in the Indonesian EEZ waters. The analysis was carried out qualitatively with a normative juridical approach and then descriptively elaborated. The results showed that the national regulations issued by the government has already referred to the UNCLOS 1982 and WCPFC Conventions, but the implementation has been far from optimal due to the heaps of regulatory references. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that the government set its policies on setting up appropriate regulations and simplifying all national regulations governing fisheries management in the Indonesian EEZ into a single regulation. It is meant to avoid overlapping arrangements and facilitate a much better implementation.

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PENGUKURAN KINERJA DAN AKUNTABILITAS ORGANISASI PUBLIK

Majalah Ilmiah UNIKOM ◽

10.34010/miu.v17i1.2226 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 77-90

Author(s):

Ella Wargadinata

Keyword(s):

Performance Measurement ◽

Local Level ◽

Research Result ◽

Measurement Model ◽

Management Policy ◽

Accountability System ◽

Organization Capacity ◽

The Government ◽

Measurement Mechanism ◽

Instrument Quality

The relation between performance measurement and accountability is already shown empirically and conceptually in literatures and researches. In 1999, The Government of Indonesia implemented performance accountability system as a periodic government institution accountability mechanism to give their responsibility on resources management, policy implementation based on their authority. The research consist four variables, Performance Measurement Mechanism, Instrument Quality, Organization capacity and Organization Accountability. Quantitative method used as research method with regression analysis which conducted at 28 local organizations at Bandung city, covered 161 respondents. This research conducted by conceptual framework of performance measurement by Moran (2013), Instrument quality by Van Dooren et al (2010) , organization capacity from Ingraham (2003) and Accountability concept by Koppel (2005. Research result shows that organization accountability can be achieved if the performance measurement implemented correctly. Research conclusion is Performance Measurement Mechanism, Instrument Quality and Organization capacity are influence the Organization Accountability. The research recommendation is strengthening performance measurement implementation at local level through knowledge transfer and taking consideration on organization capacity to create compatible perofrmance measurement model based on characteristic organization. Key Words: Performance Measurement, Mechanism, Quality, Capacity, Accountability, Public Sector

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Juridical review of disaster management policy in ASEAN and the correlation with the domestic management system of disaster in Indonesia

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202133102015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 331 ◽

pp. 02015

Author(s):

Delfiyanti ◽

Magdariza

Keyword(s):

Disaster Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Management System ◽

Humanitarian Assistance ◽

Disaster Mitigation ◽

Management Policy ◽

The World ◽

The Government ◽

Potential Disaster ◽

Disaster Management System

Southeast Asia was in a natural disaster thus the management was supposed to be a priority to the existing states in this territory. It is the most vulnerable to disaster in the world. By then, the member states of ASEAN agree to issue the regulation for disaster management, ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) that in forwarding established ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre). It is facilitating cooperation and coordination for disaster management in the ASEAN territory. The organization was established in Indonesia as a member state with potential disaster. To reinforce the regulation and disaster management system, the government issues Act No.24 of 2007 on disaster management as the base and manual. The policy refers to the activities implemented immediately for an accident in control arising worst impact, involving rescue and evacuation of the victim, properties, compliance of demand, shelter, refugees handling, and facilities-infrastructure restoration. Moreover, the Act regulating disaster mitigation-based layout system set in an attempt to improve safety and living comfort.

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