Plant cell culture technology in the cosmetics and food industries : current state and future trends

The production of drugs, cosmetics, and food which are derived from plant cell and tissue cultures has a long tradition. The emerging trend of manufacturing cosmetics and food products in a natural and sustainable manner has brought a new wave in plant cell culture technology over the past 10 years. More than 50 products based on extracts from plant cell cultures have made their way into the cosmetics industry during this time, whereby the majority is produced with plant cell suspension cultures. In addition, the first plant cell culture-based food supplement ingredients, such as Echigena Plus and Teoside 10, are now produced at production scale. In this mini review, we discuss the reasons for and the characteristics as well as the challenges of plant cell culture-based productions for the cosmetics and food industries. It focuses on the current state of the art in this field. In addition, two examples of the latest developments in plant cell culture-based food production are presented, that is, superfood which boosts health and food that can be produced in the lab or at home

Construindo cidades saudáveis: a instrumentalização de políticas públicas intersetoriais de saúde a partir do Planejamento Estratégico Situacional

A preocupação com as condições de vida nas cidades não é recente e remonta às propostas de cidades utópicas da Grécia antiga, da renascença e dos tempos da Revolução Industrial do século XIX. Os movimentos higienistas modernistas já propunham a necessidade de construir cidades salubres. Desde então, é vasta a literatura que trata do tema, com epistemologias e abordagens diferentes para a complexa questão da saúde urbana. Nesses últimos 40 anos, muito tem se avançado, não somente na teoria, na concepção de cidades saudáveis, mas também nas experiências da Rede Europeia de Cidades Saudáveis. Houve experiências pontuais no Brasil, porém elas não se desenvolveram de tal maneira a se tornarem políticas públicas concretas. Há a necessidade de planejar ações coordenadas e intersetoriais de saúde em todas as políticas. É preciso que haja participação e controle social para que haja cidades saudáveis e, por isso, o presente trabalho apresenta o Planejamento Estratégico Situacional como uma metodologia para construção de cidades saudáveis. Desde a definição do problema, a apreciação situacional, elaboração do plano até a avaliação, todas essas fases do planejamento podem fortalecer as políticas públicas em saúde e instrumentar uma política nacional de cidades saudáveis brasileira.The concern with living conditions in cities is not new and goes back to the proposals of utopian cities in ancient Greece, the Renaissance and the times of the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Modernist hygienist movements already proposed the need to build healthy cities. Since then, there is a vast literature dealing with the topic, with different epistemologies and approaches to the complex issue of urban health. Over the past 40 years, much has been advanced, not only in theory, in the design of healthy cities, but also in the experiences of the European Healthy Cities Network. There were occasional experiences in Brazil, but these did not develop in such a way as to become public policies. concrete. There is a need to plan coordinated and intersectoral health actions in all policies. It is necessary that there is participation and social control for healthy cities, and for this reason, this paper presents the Situational Strategic Planning as a methodology for building healthy cities. From the definition of the problem, the situational assessment, the elaboration of the plan until the evaluation, all these planning phases can strengthen public health policies and implement a national policy for healthy Brazilian cities

Protecting wood and killing germs: 'Burnett's Liquid' and the origins of the preservative and disinfectant industries in early Victorian Britain

Discovering chemicals as disinfectants and for timber preservation offered profitable opportunities in the early nineteenth century. After 1839 Sir William Burnett promoted his pioneering patent for zinc chloride - attempting to persuade both fellow medical practitioners and the Admiralty of its widespread uses. Trials in the navy, among migrants to Canada in 1847-48, and during Britain's 1849 cholera epidemic were all intended to demonstrate the ability of his product to contain disease, while experiments with impregnated wood sought to secure markets in the shipbuilding and railway industries. Burnett achieved business success at some cost to his professional reputation. His liquid was gradually superseded by carbolic acid and a variety of proprietary brands after his death in 1861.history of medicine, disinfection, timber preservation, William Burnett, Canadian immigration, Royal Navy, patents, zinc chloride,