DETERMINING FOOD INDUSTRY COMPLIANCE TO MANDATORY SODIUM LIMITS: SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE

Determining food industry compliance to mandatory sodium limits: successes and challenges from the South African experience

Abstract Objective: To provide an update on the compliance to the Na reduction regulation (R.214) and to highlight some challenges and successes experienced by South Africa in the implementation of a mandatory Na regulation.Design: The study design was observational.Nutritional information of packaged food (specified in the R.214 regulation) was co

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Photocracking Silica: Tuning the Plasmonic Photothermal Degradation of Mesoporous Silica Encapsulating Gold Nanoparticles for Cargo Release

Novelties The degradation of bionanomaterials is essential for medical applications of nanoformulations, but most inorganic-based delivery agents do not biodegrade at controllable rates.In this contribution, we describe the controllable plasmonic photocracking of gold@silica nanoparticles by tuning the power and wavelength of the laser irradiation,

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