Fast food fever: reviewing the impacts of the Western diet on immunity

IA Myles - Nutrition journal, 2014 - Springer
While numerous changes in human lifestyle constitute modern life, our diet has been
gaining attention as a potential contributor to the increase in immune-mediated diseases …

Prevalence and impacts of genetically engineered feedstuffs on livestock populations

AL Van Eenennaam, AE Young - Journal of Animal Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Globally, food-producing animals consume 70 to 90% of genetically engineered (GE) crop
biomass. This review briefly summarizes the scientific literature on performance and health …

Exploring a possible link between the intestinal microbiota and feed efficiency in pigs

UM McCormack, T Curião, SG Buzoianu… - Applied and …, 2017 - journals.asm.org
Feed efficiency (FE) is critical in pig production for both economic and environmental
reasons. As the intestinal microbiota plays an important role in energy harvest, it is likely to …

Safety assessment of genetically modified feed: is there any difference from food?

PA Giraldo, H Shinozuka, GC Spangenberg… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Food security is one of major concerns for the growing global population. Modern
agricultural biotechnologies, such as genetic modification, are a possible solution through …

[HTML][HTML] News in livestock research—use of Omics-technologies to study the microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract of farm animals

S Deusch, B Tilocca, A Camarinha-Silva… - Computational and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Technical progress in the field of next-generation sequencing, mass spectrometry and
bioinformatics facilitates the study of highly complex biological samples such as taxonomic …

How safe does transgenic food need to be?

L DeFrancesco - Nature biotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
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Gut microbial diversity is reduced and is associated with colonic inflammation in a piglet model of short bowel syndrome

S Lapthorne, PM Pereira-Fantini, F Fouhy, G Wilson… - Gut …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Background and objectives: Following small bowel resection (SBR), the luminal
environment is altered, which contributes to clinical manifestations of short bowel syndrome …

Case studies on genetically modified organisms (GMOs): potential risk scenarios and associated health indicators

B De Santis, N Stockhofe, JM Wal… - Food and Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Within the frame of the EU-funded MARLON project, background data were reviewed to
explore the possibility of measuring health indicators during post-market monitoring for …

Health effects of feeding genetically modified (GM) crops to livestock animals: A review

CJ De Vos, M Swanenburg - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
A large share of genetically modified (GM) crops grown worldwide is processed into
livestock feed. Feed safety of GM crops is primarily based on compositional equivalence …

Genetically modified feeds and their effect on the metabolic parameters of food-producing animals: A review of recent studies

S Swiatkiewicz, M Swiatkiewicz… - Animal Feed Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The land area devoted to the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants has increased in
recent years: in 2012 such plants were grown on over 170 million hectares globally, in 28 …