This chapter contains questions about the pollution of air, land and water (and its effect on food chains), environmental damage and disturbance and major environmental disasters.

This chapter deals with the supply chain management of diversified products derived from goats (e.g. goat milk, goat meat and transgenic goat products). In addition, the chapter explains how supply chain management serves as a baseline for information for the government, private sector and industry ...

This chapter discusses guidelines on the production of safe poultry meat and eggs during the pre-harvest stage, feeding (focused on the quality and evaluation of feeds), postharvest food safety and food processing controls.

This book contains a selected cross section of papers from the 2014 UK Poultry Science Symposium (31st Poultry Science Symposium, held in Queen Hotel, Chester, UK, last 8-10 September 2014). It reviews essential topics such as resources and supply chains, the global poultry market, risk management, ...

This chapter describes and defines ecosystems and ecosystem structure, food chain and webs, nutrient cycling in the ecosystem, and ecological succession and ecotypes, and ecosystem sustainability. The natural and plant production ecosystems are compared.

This book chapter shows how the way of regulating beneficial microorganisms for use in foods and feeds has developed to where it is today. A history from slop to pure cultures is presented, and constraints of the law on beneficial microorganisms are examined. The chapter focuses on food cultures,...

This chapter focuses on the interactions of organisms and plants in the soil food web. It explores the different trophic groups included in a typical soil food web, energetic relations in the soil food web, spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of the soil food web, and importance of...