the food chain

One food safety specialist at a multinational food company said the scares also underscored the food chain's vulnerability to bioterrorism.

Contaminated food has been found a disconcertingly long way away, although it seems to be being kept out of the food chain.

Planktonic algae are at the bottom of the food chain. If more of them are around, the rest of that chain will be affected.

What they found was that the changes in biological events were greater toward the bottom of the food chain than they were at the top.

He knew wolves and grizzlies were nearby. And he knew he was no longer at the top of the food chain.

However there is no need to tell the consumer if GM has been used further back in the food chain.

The mercury ascends the food chain up to the Yanomami in the form of a neurotoxin that especially affects child development.

As an employee, you may be used to passing problems up along the food chain or not be very involved in decision making.

It was strange enough when cloned cow meat entered the food chain, but now one scientist is trying to grow test tube meat in his laboratory.

Just did not expect, the food chain, eventually fall back to a human top of his head.

It should be a no-brainer that eating from the bottom of the food chain is more environmentally efficient than eating from the top.

You see, the lower down the food chain you are, the more important it is for you to hide any sign of illness.

Smaller, more numerous species like the jellyfish are flourishing and plugging the gap left by animals higher up the food chain.

The ecological risk of heavy metals in the soil lies in the fact that they enter the body through the food chain and health hazards.

Sitting near the top of the food chain, the king penguins are useful markers for the health of the rest of the Antarctic ecosystem.

And, you know, once a toxin is in the food chain everything is affected, including us.

Today, bankers and traders sit at the top of the food chain -- the carnivores of the system, devouring everyone and everything below.

Asian carp aren't direct predators, but they eat plankton, which knocks out the bottom layers of the food chain.

Yet keeping the bacteria out of the food chain would be a sensible idea.

plankton that are the very base of food chain that all the animals further up the food chain are dependent upon.

Amy Hatkoff's insightful book addresses a question we've finally started asking: just how evolved is our place in the food chain, anyway?

The chemical went into the food chain when pig feed was contaminated with an industrial oil.

He describes himself as a grass farmer because grass is the base of the food chain of his farm animals.

But farm groups were quick to reassure that the food chain is safe because farm production is low at this time of the year.

If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design?

It was at the top of the food chain the planet's oceans and greatly admired by Clan Sea Fox.

Because it has many industrial uses, melamine may be found in trace amounts in the food chain due to its presence in the environment.

Vital staples like potatoes and cereals are no longer getting into the food chain because bio-fuel crops are more profitable for farmers.

Many of the country's rivers are polluted with heavy metals, spoiling the water used for irrigation and contaminating the food chain.

And of course this will impact up the food chain, to fish and even sperm whales who dive deep to graze the ocean floor.

Secondary contamination of the food supply needs to be avoided throughout the food-chain.

A lack of sunlight would have killed off a majority of plants, eliminating the food supply for animals higher up the food chain.

The fish are consuming small particles of plastic thinking it is plankton or other food then the plastic enters the food chain of the ocean.

As the concentration of pollutants through the food chain, researchers worry that the plankton-eating fish will be contaminated.

The longer a chemical sits outside without breaking down, the more likely it is to accumulate, drift around and even move up the food chain.

Studies suggest that people have been increasingly exposed to these chemicals through the food chain in recent decades.

In other words, some parts of the food chain would collapse, and life as we know it would change dramatically.

"The outcome would depend on organisms at all levels of the food chain moving in to exploit this potential, " says Kemp.

The ocean's planktons form the bottom of both the food chain and the bulk of the carbon-oxygen cycle for our planet.

Still, introducing modern chemicals into the food chain has raised concerns as well.

On a drive this spring on Pacific Coast Highway, I held my own against some cars even higher up on the food chain.

American firms, which sit at the top of the food chain, depend heavily on the labor-intensive operations down below.

Add diversity, interactions, or increase the food chain lengths and soon these get to the point where they will also fall apart.

And one way to help, they say, would be to shift from eating predators to species lower on the food chain.

Once the key environmental reservoirs of the pathogen are known, the main entry points into the food chain will be identified.

When these were no longer available, the killer whales were forced to fish farther down the food chain.

Gerber says the problems go right down the food chain, including the so-called organic goods that the new middle class are buying.

Like any new product entering the food chain, genetically modified foods must be subjected to rigorous testing.

s just joined the company , so he' s low down the food chain .

This ensures that there is no active virus remaining if the live bird has been infected and has mistakenly entered the food chain.

No wonder we're dangling at the bottom of the food chain.

Now these toxins build up in the food chain and concentrate in our bodies.

With appropriate monitoring programs in place, vaccinated poultry can enter the food chain without particular risk for the consumer.

Small fish eat the micro-organisms, and large fish eat the small fish and on up the food chain.

The crop-price spikes are set to echo through the food chain, as corn and soya are the two main feeding crops.

Nierenberg said prevention measures can be put in place all along the food chain.

Investment is likely to be forced down the food chain.

Fire is always at the top of the food chain, and it has a big appetite.

Sharks up the food chain take their cut, leaving local pirates to pilfer crews' watches and mobiles.

Experts say since dolphins are at the top of the food chain, they reflect what has happened to their environment.

Contamination can be introduced at many points along the food-chain.

The baiji is a beautiful mammal, on top of the food chain, close to human beings.

This can interrupt the food chain at the lowest level, and will trickle up and certainly impact organisms higher.

It is also important to ensure that infected poultry are kept out of the food chain, including emergency food relief activities.

The toxin works its way up the food chain when sardines eat the plankton and squid eat the sardines.

Scientists believe poisonous metal compounds entering the food chain can affect sexuality, causing a reduction in offspring.

Conditions are not helped of course by Man's insistence on introducing chemicals into agriculture, and into the food chain.

For one thing, most companies use species of fish that are lower on the food chain, like cod and sardines, which accumulate less mercury.

Each member up the food chain takes in approximately 10 to 100 times the load of fat-loving toxins of its counterpart below.

Although the contribution of genetic engineering in plants, but it will break the food chain, causing ecological imbalance.

Production is at bottom of the food chain in the modern division of labor.

Thus, the "food chain" can be abandoned through the method of outer block and inner leading.

Welcome to the bottom of the food chain.

Chinese dairy association says the hormones could have entered the food chain when farmers reared the cows.

The enrichment in sea creature mainly passed by sea food chain, and the enrichment ability is stronger as long as the food chain.

Pesticides that affect hormone synthesis and metabolism can also make their way into humans by going up the food chain.

Adding iron on a large scale could prove dangerous if the neurotoxins get into the food chain, the research team said.

That in turn stands to have an effect on the food chain, since giant squid provide the meal of choice for endangered sperm whales.

The food chain starts with millions of small farms, making it tough to maintain consistent standards or trace where food is coming from.

There are unknowns in this too, such as the degree to which radioactivity will become concentrated in the food chain.

The fish are formidable predators, but they sometimes gather in groups for protection against sharks higher up on the food chain.

In the first section of a three-part article, Gong Jing reports on heavy metals in the food chain.

The consequences stretch from one end of the food chain to the other, as higher food prices prompt a response.

Q: Dr. Nelson, what's going on in the processing and preservation links of the food chain to cope with climate change?

We link ourselves to all living beings on the planet through the process of eating and being a participant in the food chain.

Using of the waste which effectively recycled the energy embodied the principles of the food chain.

Human may be exposed to these metals through the food chain, after the food has been contaminated .

Chemicals and hormones entering the food chain can have disastrous consequences for human health.

Transgenic products unfit for human consumption have already contaminated the food chain.

Sea life can get sucked into desalination plants, killing small ocean creatures like baby fish and plankton, upsetting the food chain.

Big fish eat little fish and the bigger the fish (e. g. tuna and salmon), the longer the food chain, and the greater the bio-accumulation.

Since that's an important part of the food chain, that will be his next research goal in this area.

Food quality control laboratories could use this new tool to detect these drugs before they enter the food chain.

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

I mean, the world is getting dangerous by the day, and people who do this are low on the food chain as far as I'm concerned.

there is no top to the food chain, like plants take nutrients from the strongest predators.

Cesium is absorbed by plants and works its way through the food chain, getting into meat and milk.

there is no top to the food chain , as plants take nutrients from the strongest predators.

But it's not just water, the carcinogenic heavy metals are also entering the food chain.

And when the food disappears, so does the next link in the food chain.

We link ourselves to all living beings on the planet through theprocess of eating and being a participant in the food chain.

The non-replicating vector will contaminate neither the food chain nor the ecosystem.

The water will then start to dissolve the shells of mussels and other shellfish and cause major disruption to the food chain.

Unicellular planktonic groups form the basis of the food chain in the deep sea.

This is taken up by plants and then snakes its way up the food chain into the growing bones of animals.

The new criteria would remove the most hazardous products from the food chain altogether.

But this week, we'll be investigating the food which is rejected even before it makes it into the food chain - the waste on farms.

Through the food chain or directly harm the human body.

And at the end of the food chain, we are eating them as well.

Think humans are at the top of the food chain?

How far the melamine-laced powder from Ningxia spreads through the food chain will depend on recall efforts as well as on how it is used.

Chemical degradation is very slow so that it becomes more concentrated in successive stages of the food chain .

They are very stable and fat-soluble, and therefore accumulate in the food chain.

Chemicals from the plastic can also make their way into the food chain, including fish consumed by humans.

But there are worries that modified genes could leak into the wider environment and enter the food chain.

But the food crisis of 2008 has revealed market failures at every link of the food chain (see article).

The Commission also gave specific advice on how to control bacteria in seafood throughout the food chain.

Nothing. He's at the top of the food chain.

There are widespread concerns about the potentially toxic effects of nanoparticles entering the food chain.

However, no birds from flocks with disease should enter the food chain.

A reach of prairie; the lower reaches of the food chain.

More research should also be done into pathogen survival in the food chain.

In the past, the toxin has gotten into the food chain in coastal waters near shore, poisoning shellfish and other seafood.

Dioxins are found throughout the world in the environment and they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals.

Plants offer a way for toxic metals to enter the food chain.

It's the law of the food chain.

The food chain has magnified the effect of the spill in other insidious ways.

In the environment, dioxins tend to accumulate in the food chain.

I was at the end of the food chain.

No birds from flocks with disease should enter the food chain.

The modeling object is the food chain in grassland ecosystem which is a representative one.

e. g. The extinction of wild animals may lead to deterioration of the food chain.

It also noted the importance of preventing products from infected flocks to enter the food chain.

Some higher niche in the food chain because of wild animals also have been implicated in varying degrees.

Next year I' ll be top of the food chain at high school .

Understand where you are in the food chain, where your food comes from.

Predation relations link these agents to form the food chain.

Timon: "We're so low on the food chain, we're underground. "

Besides, the consequences can pass through the food chain and effect other lives such as birds and mammals.

Some animals, such as deer, goat and pig, are the food that are eaten by lion, tiger and other predators in the food chain of nature.

Soil lead exceeding the allowed standard not only affects the plant's normal growth, but also harms the human health through the food chain.

Melamine-contaminated products should be removed from the food chain in order to prevent further exposure.

Founded in 2006, the latest model of the Food Chain model and strive to fight the Chinese food culture to the world market!

In addition, the wide occurrence of Campylobacter also hinders the development of control strategies throughout the food chain.

Will the food chain remain in balance if there is break in the pyramid?

Selenium is a trace mineral that is found in the soil and becomes absorbed in the food chain.

I remember learning about the food chain in the 7th grade.

Timon: Nothing. He's at the top of the food chain. The food chain! So where are you from?

The UK's Food Standards Agency says beef from the offspring of a cloned cow entered the food chain last year.

For example, if the number of wolves and foxes decrease, the food chain is upset.

Often these are minute flying insects that are extremely short-lived, but during that time they serve a purpose in the food chain.

More and more plants and animals has been died out, and in this way, the food chain will be destroyed sooner or later.

Quantitative Measurement of Nutritive Relationship of the Food Chain: Rice plant-leafhoppers-spiders by the Fluorescence Labeling Method

The wetland pollution with is serious, the biological pollution, threatens people's health through the food chain;

this mantis shrimp larva is one of many kinds of plankton that form the basis of the food chain at cocos island

Controlling Transfer of Cadmium in the Food Chain through Plant Biotechnology and Agronomic Management

guidelines on controlling bacteria in seafood throughout the food-chain; and

Researchers say plan could jeopardize oceans by introducing toxins into the food chain

Existence and Global Stability of Positive Periodic Solutions to the Food Chain System of Three Species with Time Delays

Food safety management systems -- Requirements for any organization in the food chain

Belgium: Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain

Worlds Of Food: Place, Power, And Provenance In The Food Chain

Meat and milk from infected animals not allowed in the food chain

We are at the top of the food chain,

at the end of the food chain

that's why it is called the food chain

Panel on contaminants in the food chain

Accumulation in the food chain

Policy Issues in the Food Chain

afety in the Food Chain- From Farm to Fork

we can see how the food chain works