17 research outputs found
Conditionnement des denrées alimentaires en Ouganda en ce qui trait à l'alimentation des nourrissons
Réunion: Pour améliorer l'alimentation des jeunes en Afrique orientale et australe : une technologie à la portée des ménages, 12-16 oct. 1987, Nairobi, KEDans IDL-405
Food processing in Uganda with special reference to infant feeding
Meeting: Improving Young Child Feeding in Eastern and Southern Africa : Household Level Food Technology, 12-16 Oct. 1987, Nairobi, KEIn IDL-129
An Evaluation Of Milk Quality In Uganda: Value Chainassessment And Recommendations
The sanitary quality of raw milk is an important issue in Uganda for
social, economical and healthy reasons. A survey on milk quality was
carried out in Mbarara major milk producing region in Uganda, between
June and August 2004. The milk production system described in this
paper has largely remained unchanged up to now. Milk quality was
analysed at six stages of the commodity chain: farm, bicycle collector
at the farm level, pick-up collecting centre, milk collecting centre,
urban cooler, and vendor in Kampala city at the urban cooler level.
Milk quality was evaluated using platform tests (Clot on boiling (COB),
Alcohol test, milk temperature and density) and microbiological tests
(total plate count, total and faecal coliforms, Escherichia coli
count). Approximately half of the total coliform count was attributed
to fecal coliforms including E. coli. This indicates great possibility
of the occurrence of enteric pathogens in milk. This is partly
confirmed by the large count of E. coli. The bacteria load reached very
high levels close to 2 x 106ation for developing a technical and
scientific basis for milk quality improvement in Uganda
An Evaluation Of Milk Quality In Uganda: Value Chainassessment And Recommendations
The sanitary quality of raw milk is an important issue in Uganda for
social, economical and healthy reasons. A survey on milk quality was
carried out in Mbarara major milk producing region in Uganda, between
June and August 2004. The milk production system described in this
paper has largely remained unchanged up to now. Milk quality was
analysed at six stages of the commodity chain: farm, bicycle collector
at the farm level, pick-up collecting centre, milk collecting centre,
urban cooler, and vendor in Kampala city at the urban cooler level.
Milk quality was evaluated using platform tests (Clot on boiling (COB),
Alcohol test, milk temperature and density) and microbiological tests
(total plate count, total and faecal coliforms, Escherichia coli
count). Approximately half of the total coliform count was attributed
to fecal coliforms including E. coli. This indicates great possibility
of the occurrence of enteric pathogens in milk. This is partly
confirmed by the large count of E. coli. The bacteria load reached very
high levels close to 2 x 106ation for developing a technical and
scientific basis for milk quality improvement in Uganda
A sampling and analytical methodology for dental trace element analysis
The role of trace elements in human health and environmental pollution has developed into an extensive field of research. This study describes a sampling and analytical strategy to determine the trace element content of primary (deciduous) teeth and to assess their use in environmental health and nutrition studies. Exfoliated and extracted primary teeth were collected from 21 Ugandan and 27 UK children. The crown and root of the teeth were separated and the former digested and analysed for several elements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The influence of country, tooth type, age and gender were statistically investigated in addition to within-person variation. A principal components analysis (PCA) was used to treat the data in a multivariate fashion and facilitated the moderation of outliers. The results demonstrated that country of origin has an important influence on the elemental composition of teeth and that tooth type should be controlled in these types of studies. Given such a restriction, the age and gender of the donor should have no effect and do not need to be controlled. In addition, where country of domicile, age and gender were controlled, the concentrations of most elements within a single tooth type were representative of an individual and therefore may be indicative of health status
Environmental influences on the trace element content of teeth--implications for disease and nutritional status
The aim of this study was to compare the trace element content of children's primary teeth from Uganda and the UK. The Ugandan teeth were from children living in an area where endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF), a cardiac disease, is prevalent. The latter has been putatively linked to insufficient magnesium intake and excess cerium exposure. Primary teeth were collected from 21 Ugandan and 27 UK children. The crowns and roots of the teeth were separated and the former digested and analysed for several major and trace elements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). In addition, the enamel and dentine of eight UK and seven Ugandan primary teeth were isolated via density separation and analysed as above. The data were assessed using non-parametric statistical tests. The Ugandan teeth contained significantly (P < 0.05) greater concentrations of strontium, barium, cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium and significantly less zinc than the UK teeth. No significant difference in the concentrations of aluminium, calcium, copper, magnesium, lead and uranium were found. Analysis of enamel and dentine demonstrated that the former was enriched with several elements including cerium. It is concluded, that the environment, influences the trace element content of primary teeth and this may be useful for monitoring nutritional status. With respect to a geochemical cause for EMF, there is no positive evidence that EMF in Uganda is associated with reduced magnesium and increased cerium uptake in primary teeth. This does not, however, exclude cerium from playing a role in the aetiology of EM