Tropical Fruit Pulps: Processing, Product Standardization and Main Control Parameters for Quality Assurance

ABSTRACT Fruit pulp is the most basic food product obtained from fresh fruit processing. Fruit pulps can be cold stored for long periods of time, but they also can be used to fabricate juices, ice creams, sweets, jellies and yogurts. The exploitation of tropical fruits has leveraged the entire Brazilian fruit pulp sector due mainly to the high acceptance of their organoleptic properties and remarkable nutritional facts. However, several works published in the last decades have pointed out unfavorable conditions regarding the consumption of tropical fruit pulps. This negative scenario has been associated with unsatisfactory physico-chemical and microbiological parameters of fruits pulps as outcomes of little knowledge and improper management within the fruit pulp industry. There are protocols for delineating specific identity and quality standards (IQSs) and standardized good manufacturing practices (GMP) for fruit pulps, which also embrace standard operating procedures (SOPs) and hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), although this latter is not considered mandatory by the Brazilian legislation. Unfortunately, the lack of skilled labor, along with failures in complying established protocols have impaired quality of fruit pulps. It has been necessary to collect all information available with the aim to identify the most important hazards within fruit pulp processing lines. Standardizing methods and practices within the Brazilian fruit pulp industry would assurance high quality status to tropical fruit pulps and the commercial growth of this vegetal product towards international markets

Microstructured-core optical fibre for evanescent sensing applications

The development of microstructured fibres offers the prospect of improved fibre sensing for low refractive index materials such as liquids and gases. A number of approaches are possible. Here we present a new approach to evanescent field sensing, in which both core and cladding are microstructured. The fibre was fabricated and tested, and simulations and experimental results are shown in the visible region to demonstrate the utility of this approach for sensing. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.1426130561306

Centro cirúrgico: desafios e estratégias do enfermeiro nas atividades gerenciais

RESUMO Objetivo Analisar os desafios e estratégias do enfermeiro nas atividades gerenciais em centro cirúrgico. Método Estudo exploratório, descritivo, de abordagem qualitativa, realizado com seis enfermeiras, mediante a Técnica de Grupos Focais, entre abril e agosto de 2013. As informações foram submetidas à Análise de Conteúdo na modalidade temática. Resultados Os principais desafios apontaram: deficiência de recursos materiais, ruídos de comunicação, adequação de redimensionamento de pessoal e relações com a equipe multiprofissional. As principais estratégias compreendem a construção de espaços de gestão compartilhada para promover a integração entre os profissionais, a resolução de conflitos e o intercâmbio de saberes. Conclusões Ponderou-se que as atividades gerenciais envolvem a promoção de momentos dialógicos para articular os diferentes processos existentes no CC, a fim de produzir subsídios para ampliar a segurança e a qualidade nos serviços prestados