scholarly journals Evaluation environnementale et sanitaire des aires d’abattage à l’heure de Covid-19 situées dans la commune de Matete ville-province de Kinshasa (RD Congo)

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 8256-8270
Author(s):  
Umba M Joachim ◽  
Kumpel M. Placide ◽  
Maleke M. Jean-Pierre ◽  
Metena M. Marlène
Keyword(s):  
Water Environment ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Plant Sciences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Distribution Chain ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
Direct Discharge

Dans un monde de plus en plus interconnecté, la prévention contre les risques de maladies liées à la nourriture fait débat. Le contrôle de la qualité des aliments devient un problème de santé publique. Etant d’origine animale, Covid-19 qui, à ce titre est une zoonose émergente a suscité un grand intérêt scientifique. La question fondamentale qui se pose est de savoir si dans certains pays en développement la filière qui va du fermier éleveur, des abattoirs ainsi qu’à la chaine de distribution fait l’objet d’un marquage strict. Quelles pourraient-être les règles d’hygiène dans les abattoirs de certains pays telle que la RD Congo ? Cet article propose d’évaluer, de faire un état de lieux des aires d’abattage de la Commune de Matete et faire vulgariser les règles de la sécurité sanitaire car la viande abattue dans ces tueries est exposée aux micro-organismes. Ils se dégagent que les tueries de la Commune de Matete sont caractérisées par des défaillances majeures concernant principalement le contrôle veterinaire et médical ,l’hygiène (du personnel, du lieu d’abattage et du matériel utilisé), la lutte contre les nuisibles et l’absence de système de collecte de sang et de traitement préalable des eaux usées, le rejet direct de ces effluents, en particulier dans le milieu hydrique, nuit gravement à la qualité de l’environnement. ABSTRACT In an increasingly interconnected world, prevention against the risks of food-related diseases is the subject of debate. Food quality control is becoming a public health issue. Being of animal origin, Covid-19 which, as such is an emerging zoonosis, has aroused great scientific interest. The fundamental question that arises is to know whether in certain developing countries the chain which goes from the farmer-breeder, to the slaughterhouses as well as to the distribution chain is subject to strict marking. What could be the hygiene rules in slaughterhouses in some countries such as DR Congo? this proposes to assess, make an inventory of the slaughter areas of the Municipality of Matete and popularize the rules of health security because the meat slaughtered in here is exposed Umba et al., 2020 Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences (J.Anim.Plant Sci. ISSN 2071-7024) Vol.46 (2): 8256-8270 https://doi.org/10.35759/JAnmPlSci.v46-2.8 8257 to microorganisms. .They emerge that the slaughtering in the Municipality of Matete is characterized by major failures concerning mainly veterinary and medical control, hygiene (of the personnel, the place of slaughter and the equipment used), the fight against pests, the absence of blood collection system and pre-treatment of wastewater, the direct discharge of these effluents into the water environment, thus seriously affecting the environment.

Health diplomacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Annamarie Bindenagel Šehovic´
Keyword(s):  
Right To Health ◽  
Health It ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Health Diplomacy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
The Right ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Insight Into

This article explores the role of health diplomacy in promoting the right to health. It first looks at the historical trajectory of the right to health as it evolves and intersects with state and human and health security. Second, it analyzes the definitions and roles of health diplomacy. It argues that health diplomacy is undergoing a cycle of (re)invention and innovation, bringing in both new and traditional actors. Yet it points out a gap in the subject of health diplomacy, asking what is the right to health, and what does its definition mean for the (changing) role of health diplomacy? It concludes by offering initial insight into what health diplomacy might be in the nearer future.

scholarly journals Microstructure of Thermoplastic Composites Reinforced with Wool and Wood

2019 ◽  
Vol 890 ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Catarina Baptista ◽  
Gabriela Martins ◽  
Cyril Santos ◽  
Artur Mateus ◽  
Filipe Antunes
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Thermoplastic Composites ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Melt Blending ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Chemical Treatments ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cellulosic Fibres ◽  
In Virtue Of

In the last decades the studies on thermoplastic composites reinforced with natural fibres have been mostly focused on vegetable lignocellulosic or cellulosic fibres. These materials provide eco-sustainable solutions for a large range of applications and have been actually adopted by multiple industries. The interest on fibres of animal origin is more recent and research on composites reinforced with these fibres predominantly composed of keratin, such as wool, feathers or silk, is increasing in virtue of some advantageous properties that may overcome some of the intrinsic limitations from vegetable fibres. The combined use of vegetable and animal fibres in composites appropriate for melt blending processing is at early stages of research. After chemical treatments, the fibres of animal origin have been mostly applied as binders between vegetable fibres and polymers, not as main constituents of these composites. The use of both types of fibres simultaneously in composites of thermoplastic matrices is the subject of the present study wherein the fibres of animal origin (wool) are different kinds of residues from a textile industry and the fibres of vegetable origin (wood) are residues from carpentry activities. The chemical composition, the macro and microstructure of the fibres is analyzed, as well as that of composites that combine non-biodegradable and biodegradable polymers with diverse ratios of fibres in different conditions (wool as cards, yarns and felt cloths; wood as sawdust). The addition of coupling agents to enhance the compatibility between wool, wood and different polymers is also analysed.

scholarly journals Pressure Point Threshold and ME/CFS comorbidity as Indicators of Physiotherapy Response in Fibromyalgia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Falaguera-Vera ◽  
María Garcia-Escudero ◽  
Javier Bonastre-Férez ◽  
Mario Zacarés ◽  
Elisa Oltra
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Response ◽  
Expression Profiles ◽  
Gene Expression Profiles ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
Pharmacological Treatments ◽  
Baseline Sensitivity ◽  
Pressure Point ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
The Impact

Current pharmacological treatments of Fibromyalgia (FM) are merely symptom palliative, as clinical trials have so far failed to provide overall benefits without associated harms. Polypharmacy often leads to patient´s health deterioration and chronic drug use to an eventual lack of patient´s response. Emerging evidence support that physiotherapy treatments based on mechanical triggers improve FM symptoms and therefore could be used for therapeutic purposes by themselves, or in combination with current pharmacological treatments, as part of integrative medicine programs. However, a paucity of studies rigorously and systematically evaluating this possibility exists. This study uses scores from validated standardized questionnaires, algometer pressure point threshold (PPT) readings and responses from a custom self-developed questionnaire to determine the impact of a pressure-controlled manual protocol on FM hyperalgesia/allodynia, fatigue and patient´s quality of life. The results show that patient´s baseline sensitivity to pain inversely correlates with treatment response in FM. Moreover, patients presenting comorbid ME/CFS do not seem to respond to the applied therapy as those presenting FM only. Thus, pre-treatment PPTs and ME/CFS comorbidity may serve as indicators to predict patient´s response to physiotherapy programs based on mechanical triggers, as the one evaluated here. These unexpected findings grant further explorations including the study of gene expression profiles associating to patient´s treatment response in the blood collection of samples generated by this study.

scholarly journals Effects of plastics and microplastics on aquatic organisms and human health

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-443
Author(s):  
Fevziye Nihan Bulat ◽  
Berna Kılınç
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Aquatic Organisms ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Aquatic Species ◽  
Food Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Day By Day

Today, plastics have been used in many areas and their use have been increasing day by day. This increase in the use of plastic causes environmental pollution as well as negatively affects organisms in the environment and therefore human health. Plastics reach to the water environment through different transport routes. Microplastics that have reached to the water environment are consumed by aquatic organisms. Microplastics in aquatic species (fish, mussels, shrimp, seals, etc.) were highlighted in many studies. Microplastics consumed by aquatic organisms are included in the food network, reaching as far as human consumption. Therefore, the importance of the subject have been emphasized, the evaluation of the studies on microplastics and the risks it poses have been examined in this compilation study which was carried out in order to raise awareness about this issue and to ensure that the necessary measures will be taken.

scholarly journals ETHICAL ASPECTS ABOUT INFORMED CONSENT IN CORD BLOOD COLLECTION FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-262
Author(s):  
Elena Tataranu ◽  
◽  
Maria Stamatin ◽  
Smaranda Diaconescu ◽  
Angelica Cristina Marin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cord Blood ◽  
Umbilical Cord ◽  
Umbilical Cord Blood ◽  
Care Program ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cord Blood Collection ◽  
Allergic March ◽  
Specific Care

Deepening the knowledge about genetic and epigenetic mechanisms studies (environmental caused) regarding atopy, brought revelations about intrauterine onset of allergies, proven by the presence of IgE in umbilical cord blood. Detection of these newborns and their inclusion in a specific care program further reduces the morbidity of allergic march with the undeniable effects on quality of life and healthcare costs. The dramatic increase in the prevalence of atopy in recent decades suggests the importance of IgE in umbilical cord determinations. The use of umbilical cord blood for diagnostic purposes requires clear laws and rules and this is the subject we suggest to debate in this paper.

scholarly journals Geochemical composition of Holocene and Late Pleistocene ice wedges in the yedoma of Stanchikovsky Yar and near the Chersky town, Northern Yakutia

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Nadine Arkad'evna Budantseva ◽  
Yurij Kirillovich Vasil'chuk
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Geochemical Composition ◽  
Mean Values ◽  
Melted Snow ◽  
Level Ice ◽  
Ice Wedge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Kolyma River

The subject of this research is the Late Pleistocene and Holocene ice wedges exposed near Chersky settlement, lower Kolyma River, and in the yedoma strata of the Stanchikovsky Yar on the Maly Anyuy River. In the yedoma of the Stanchikovsky Yar, multi-tiered syngenetic ice wedges were exposed at different levels – from 10 to 35 m above river level. Ice wedge in the lower tier was sampled in detail. In the yedoma strata near Chersky relatively small fragments of ice wedges up to 1.5 m wide and up to 2 m high were exposed. 1.5-2 km from Chersky within the lacusrtine-paludal depression Holocene ice wedges were exposed. Ice wedges in these three sections was sampled to clarify the geochemical conditions of their formation. It is shown that concentration of Na+, K+, Mg2+, Cl- and SO42- in Holocene and Late Pleistocene ice wedges is very low and mean values do not exceed 5 mg/L. The highest values were obtained for Ca2+, which corresponds to the predominance of this ion in the modern snow of Yakutia and indicates that ice wedges were formed mainly from melted snow. Rather high values of NO3-, reaching 14-27 mg/L, are quite likely due to the swampy environment within polygonal landscapes, where organic matter of both plant and animal origin is decomposed. For comparison, in the water of the Kolyma and Maly Anyu rivers, concentration of nitrates is quite low and does not exceed 0.3 mg/L.

scholarly journals The use of antibiotics in food technology: the case study of products from Moscow stores

2021 ◽  
Vol 311 ◽  
pp. 10005
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Erofeeva ◽  
Yulia Zakirova ◽  
Sergey Yablochnikov ◽  
Evgeny Prys ◽  
Irina Prys
Keyword(s):  
Food Products ◽  
Poultry Meat ◽  
Animal Origin ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Russian Market ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
The City

The global threat of the 21st century is the uncontrolled use of antibiotics. Many bacteria have developed resistance to antibacterial drugs, resulting in drug-resistant superbugs. The article presents the results of the case study of Russian food products from the stores in the city of Moscow and analyzes them for the presence of antibiotics. The object of the study is the Russian market of animal products. The subject of the study is detecting the presence of antibiotics in food products on the Russian market. As a result of studying of the range of food products of animal origin, it has been revealed that the amount of harmful substances (such as antibiotics) meets the MPC standards, according to the Russian GOST standards. The research results obtained in laboratory conditions are of interest for assessing the prevalence of antibiotic residues in meat and dairy products. Based on the monitoring studies, it has been found out that most of the residual antibiotics were present in poultry meat. In all three samples, the antibiotic enrofloxacin was found but the MPC of the antibiotic was not exceeded (the norm is not more than 100 μg / kg).

scholarly journals Research Advances in Identifying Sulfate Contamination Sources of Water Environment by Using Stable Isotopes

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiwei Wang ◽  
Qianqian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Ecological Security ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Contamination Sources ◽  
Drinking Water Safety ◽  
Potential Sources ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
Sulfur And Oxygen Isotopes ◽  
Pre Treatment

As the main anion of groundwater, the content of sulfate affects the drinking water safety and ecological security directly. In recent years, with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization development, the problem of sulfate pollution in water environments is becoming more and more serious. It is critical to effectively identify the sulfate sources of water environment to ensure human health and the benign evolution of water environment. Due to its “fingerprints” feature, the sulfur and oxygen isotopes of SO42− have been widely used to identify sources of sulfate contamination in water environment. However, research advances in tracing sulfate contamination sources of water environment by using stable isotopes are rarely reported. This paper reviewed the research advances of sulfate isotope technology domestically and abroad, which was used to trace the sources of sulfate pollution in water environment, compared different pre-treatment methods for analyzing the δ34S and δ18O of sulfate, and compiled the ranges of typical values of δ34S and δ18O from different potential sources of sulfate contamination. In this review, the limitation of the technique in traceability of sulfate pollution was also discussed, and the future traceability techniques of sulfate pollution were prospected.

Applying systems analysis in managing the water environment: towards a new agenda

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Systems Analysis ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Optimisation Heuristics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Difficulties

The methods of systems analysis - principally, mathematical modelling, simulation, and optimisation - have been widely applied to solving problems in managing the water environment for over three decades. These foundations of the subject remain just as relevant today as hitherto. The problems to which they might be applied, however, or the context in which they might be applied, seem to have changed in ways that could genuinely be described as “radical”. In this survey stock is taken of these changes in perspective, especially over the past ten years: in the emergence of stakeholder participation, environmental ethics, life-cycle analysis, sustainability, industrial ecology, and design for ecological (as opposed to engineering) resilience. Whether the application of systems analysis will require a new approach or new methods with which to address these new issues, is thus open to question. For there are undoubtedly limits of method now discernible, even in respect of the more conventional problems of applying systems analysis to managing water quality. For example, we shall be obliged to acknowledge that, were we to encode all our currently available hypothetical knowledge into a model, this would not be verifiable in the conventional, rigorous sense. Similarly, in spite of a wealth of apparently ever more powerful mathematical formulations of the problem of optimisation, heuristics and intuition must still be called upon to reach even good solutions, reasonably close to where the optimum is thought to lie. Circumventing such methodological difficulties, while yet absorbing the changing currents in outlook on the man-environment relationship, is where candidate tasks for the “new agenda” of the next few years might be found. This paper presents some personal observations on a handful of such candidate tasks.

scholarly journals Pressure Point Thresholds and ME/CFS Comorbidity as Indicators of Patient’s Response to Manual Physiotherapy in Fibromyalgia

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 8044
Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Falaguera-Vera ◽  
María Garcia-Escudero ◽  
Javier Bonastre-Férez ◽  
Mario Zacarés ◽  
Elisa Oltra
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Expression Profiles ◽  
Gene Expression Profiles ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
Pharmacological Treatments ◽  
Baseline Sensitivity ◽  
Pressure Point ◽  
Chronic Drug Use ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
The Impact

Current pharmacological treatments of Fibromyalgia (FM) are merely symptom palliative, as clinical trials have so far failed to provide overall benefits without associated harms. Polypharmacy often leads to patient’s health deterioration and chronic drug use to an eventual lack of patient’s response. Emerging evidence supports that physiotherapy treatments based on mechanical triggers improve FM symptoms and therefore could be used for therapeutic purposes by themselves or in combination with current pharmacological treatments, as part of integrative medicine programs. However, a paucity of studies rigorously and systematically evaluating this possibility exists. This study uses scores from validated standardized questionnaires, algometer pressure point threshold (PPT) readings and responses from a custom self-developed questionnaire to determine the impact of a pressure-controlled custom manual protocol on FM hyperalgesia/allodynia, fatigue and patient’s quality of life. The results show that patient’s baseline sensitivity to pain inversely correlates with treatment response in FM. Moreover, post-stratification analysis unexpectedly reveals that patients presenting comorbid ME/CFS do not seem to respond to the applied therapy as those presenting FM only. Therefore, pre-treatment PPTs and ME/CFS comorbidity may serve as indicators to predict patient’s response to physiotherapy programs based on mechanical triggers. Further exploration of these findings is granted. In addition, the study of gene expression profiles in the blood collection generated by this study should help unveil the molecular mechanisms behind patient’s differential response to manual therapy.

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