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It is impossible to imagine modern agriculture without plastics鈥�12 million tons are used every year. But what about the environmental consequences? An international team of authors, including 麻豆AV Department of Bioresource Engineering Professor Jan Franklin Adamowski and Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry Associate Professor and Chair听St茅phane Bayen, addresses this question in a recent study.

With this donation from Pfizer Canada, early career scientists and researchers across the 麻豆AV and MUHC community have an opportunity to carry out research across three broad thematic areas: Pandemic Threats, Antimicrobial Resistance, Microbes that Shape Human Health.

As cases听creep upward of a rare disease that spreads to humans from wild canines and dogs, medical experts say it's important to get a听better understanding of its incidence across the country.

Alveolar echinococcosis听(AE) is听an infection caused by the parasite听Echinococcus multilocularis, which is carried by coyotes, dogs and foxes. The tapeworm common in Europe was first detected in wildlife in Western Canada in 2012; one year later, the first human case of AE was found in a woman in rural Alberta.

If you鈥檝e noticed that听certain products in the grocery store听taste different from how you remember, it鈥檚 possible some of their ingredients have been swapped for cheaper alternatives.听

Experts say food producers are increasingly changing the ingredients in products to cut costs听amid soaring food prices and labour shortages鈥攁 practice known as 鈥渟kimpflation.鈥� Could our health be at stake?

鈥淚n Quebec, it hasn't been good this year either. We lose California, there's still Florida, there's still Mexico. We hope that it goes well somewhere because we will pay for it, one day,"听麻豆AV agronomist and economist Pascal Th茅riault told 98.5fm host Luc Ferrandez.听

Quebec imports fruits, vegetables, and wine from California.

Modernization of agriculture is imperative for food production, Vijaya Raghavan, Distinguished James 麻豆AV Professor from Canada, said on Tuesday while inaugurating the Eighth Agricultural Graduate Students鈥� Conference at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

Scientists and agricultural students have a significant role to play in achieving integrated food production, Prof. Vijaya Raghavan emphasized.

Professor St茅phane Bayen has been appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry effective September 1, 2023 until June 30, 2028. Dr. Bayen received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the National University of Singapore in 2005.