The present invention relates to a solid food composition which is generally gluten and lactose free, and its use for treating and preventing metabolic diseases.

The present invention relates to a solid food composition which is generally gluten and lactose free, and its use for treating and preventing metabolic diseases.

Non-extractable and fiber-free food oil removing film is a flexible with numerous open-cell of microporous structure used for removing oils from cooked food. The said plastic film is made from a mixture of polypropylene polymer, specific carbon atom olefin fillers and nucleating agent. The mixture is plasticized and formed into a tubular film substrate by a tubular blown film extruder, then following biaxial stretching by a specific isostatic pressurized hot water technique forming numerous of smooth, uniform, lipophilic, microporous structure that absorb and retain any kinds of oils from cooked foods. The film is applied in various forms varying to its applications such as sheet, perforated rolls, or laminated on other functional substrates to from a novel food packaging by lamination methods.

A method for the inactivation and inactivation testing of xenoantigens in foods of vegetable and animal origin, comprising the following steps: making up a solution with a food of vegetable or animal origin as a solvent and one or more phenolic compounds, polyphenolic compounds and derivatives thereof, comprising phenylpropanoids, as a solute, for the inactivation of at least part of the xenogeneic epitopes from said food, incubating samples of the food of vegetable or animal origin with the addition of an antibody aimed at a xenoantigen epitope that is present in the food, separating the resulting immune complex created owing to the bond between antigen and antibody, preparing a well plate for the E.L.I.S.A. test with coating with xenoantigen epitope, adding, in the wells, supernatant taken from the samples, the supernatant containing the part of antibody that has not bonded with epitopes, a column of wells being adapted to define a reference value that corresponds to the maximum signal between antibody and epitopes, completing the plate with a secondary antibody conjugated with an enzyme, or other molecule, adapted to chromatically highlight any presence of anti-xenoantigen antibody, reading the plate, determining the presence of anti-xenoantigen antibody that has remained free in the solutions of the samples, comparing the absorbance values detected in the reference column with the values in the other columns of samples of the plate.

A method for the inactivation and inactivation testing of xenoantigens in foods of vegetable and animal origin, comprising the following steps: making up a solution with a food of vegetable or animal origin as a solvent and one or more phenolic compounds, polyphenolic compounds and derivatives thereof, comprising phenylpropanoids, as a solute, for the inactivation of at least part of the xenogeneic epitopes from said food, incubating samples of the food of vegetable or animal origin with the addition of an antibody aimed at a xenoantigen epitope that is present in the food, separating the resulting immune complex created owing to the bond between antigen and antibody, preparing a well plate for the E.L.I.S.A. test with coating with xenoantigen epitope, adding, in the wells, supernatant taken from the samples, the supernatant containing the part of antibody that has not bonded with epitopes, a column of wells being adapted to define a reference value that corresponds to the maximum signal between antibody and epitopes, completing the plate with a secondary antibody conjugated with an enzyme, or other molecule, adapted to chromatically highlight any presence of anti-xenoantigen antibody, reading the plate, determining the presence of anti-xenoantigen antibody that has remained free in the solutions of the samples, comparing the absorbance values detected in the reference column with the values in the other columns of samples of the plate.

A data centre (10) includes one or more controllable air circulation systems (e.g. air optimiser (11)), one or more cold aisles (15) and/or one or more hot aisles (16), one or more rows of racks (14), the data centre being so arranged that in use cooling air (18) passes, under the control of the one or more controllable air circulation systems, from a cold aisle (15) through the racks (14) and/or through the racks (14) to a hot aisle (16). An access door (20), which provides access to at least one of the aisles, is movable between an open position allowing personnel access to the aisle and a closed position. The door (20) has an aperture (25) in which is provided a controllable air intake arrangement, for example comprising a vent (17) in the form of multiple vertically extending rotatable blades (28). The width (24) of the door is wider than the width (26) of the aisle associated with the door (20), so that the width of the aperture (25) may be larger than or substantially equal to the width (26) of the aisle. Air-flow into the aisle may therefore be subjected to less of a constriction than if the door (20) and aperture (25) were narrower.

Glass beads which are functionalized by lysine or polylysine adsorbed on their surface, a device that includes a container that contains glass beads which are functionalized by lysine or polylysine adsorbed on their surface, and their use for capturing microorganisms. Also the diagnostic, elimination or reduction of the load of microorganisms of liquid or viscous samples in which microorganisms are captured on the glass beads which are functionalized by lysine or polylysine.

The invention is directed to ion capture devices and methods for ion capture.

The invention comprises a method and apparatus for forming a Cannabis product, comprising the steps of: in a first process, decreasing viscosity of a tetrahydrocannabinol stock, of at least fifty percent purity, by at least two thousand centipoise through: (1) the addition of at least one of: ethanol, butter, a fat, and an oil to form an intermediate tetrahydrocannabinol compound and (2) heating the intermediate tetrahydrocannabinol compound to at least 40° C.; in a subsequent process, further reducing viscosity of the intermediate tetrahydrocannabinol compound to less than 100 centipoise by diluting the tetrahydrocannabinol compound with water at a ratio of at least ten parts water to one part tetrahydrocannabinol stock, by at least one of mass and volume, to form a liquid THC product; and packaging the liquid THC product in a container for distribution from a manufacturing point to a point of sale.

The invention is mainly in the field of the production of food and luxury foods, for example coffee and coffee substitute products. Enzymes are provided which are capable of degrading acrylamide - preferably also at temperatures above 50° C., in particular in temperature ranges which occur in the production of coffee/coffee substitute products, and/or at a pH value between pH 4 and pH 7, as is usual in the production of coffee/coffee substitute products. Furthermore, methods for degrading acrylamide from preparations selected from semi-finished goods as well as finished goods are provided. Also, the present invention relates to preparations having a reduced acrylamide content compared to preparations which have not been subjected to the method for removing acrylamide according to the invention by means of the enzymes according to the invention.