Food chains, such as Pizza Hut, have come under criticism for the high salt content of some of their meals, which were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an adult.

Food service chains partner with food equipment manufacturers to design highly specialized restaurant equipment, often incorporating heat sensors, timers, and other electronic controls into the design.

These 3 major chains are Café de Coral, Fairwood Fast Food, and Maxim MX.

In March 2002, Tricon announced the acquisition of Lexington, Kentucky-based Yorkshire Global Restaurants, owner of the Long John Silver's and A & W All-American Food chains and its intention to change the company's name to Yum!

Travilah Square, long the area's only shopping center, is now facing tough competition from a new breed of new urbanism lifestyle centers, which contain a multitude of retailers, from Giant Food to new boutique chains.

Other businesses, including national grocery chains like Food Lion, adapted to the change in demographics by stocking a wider variety of Central and South American food products.

Food chains are linear ( noncyclic ) feeding pathways that trace monophagous consumers from a base species up to the top consumer, which is usually a larger predatory carnivore.

Dial's customers included supermarket chains Key Food and Waldbaum's.

* Retail: A. S. Watson & Co., Limited ( ASW ), HWL's retail arm, operates its flagship retail chains in Asia such as Watson's, PARKnSHOP supermarket, TASTE food galleria, GOURMET boutique style fine food hall, GREAT Food Hall, Fortress electrical appliances store, Watson's Wine Cellar and Nuance-Watson duty free operator.

The UFCW currently operates in a number of major grocery chains throughout the United States, including Albertsons, Dierbergs, Kroger, Meijer, Rosauers, Schnucks, Safeway, Supervalu, Giant Food LLC, The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, BiLo, Tops Markets, A & P, Pathmark, King Kullen, Waldbaums and Shop Rite.

Food critics sometimes point out that " chocolate mooncakes " are in reality just chocolate shaped into mooncakes, and not mooncakes made of chocolate, while others complain that food chains appear intent on coming up with exotic flavours to take advantage of the market, without much thought for how well the tastes fuse together.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, 99 Ranch Market's main competitors are the Marina Food and Lion Supermarket chains, as well as smaller and longer-established Cantonese Chinese grocery stores, such as those in Oakland's Chinatown and the Asian neighborhoods of San Francisco.

In-N-Out was one of the very few restaurant chains given a positive mention in the book Fast Food Nation.

Eric Schlosser, in his book Fast Food Nation, argues that fast food chains accelerate suburban sprawl and help set its tone with their expansive parking lots, flashy signs, and plastic architecture ( 65 ).

Food prices were a political issue in the 1912 presidential election ; some chains experimented with a no-frills format.

The company is the second-largest food and drug retailer in its competitive market, where it competes with such chains as Ahold's Giant-Carlisle, Giant-Landover, and Stop & Shop ; A & P's Pathmark, Super Fresh, A & P, and Food Basics ; Wakefern Food Corporation's ShopRite ; Walmart and its warehouse club subsidiary Sam's Club, and warehouse club competitor Costco, natural and organic products retailer Whole Foods Market, Wegmans Food Markets, Trader Joe's and its discount sister Aldi, North Carolina-based Food Lion and Bottom Dollar Food, as well as other smaller chains in various markets.

All the additives listed here are sanctioned for use by the Food and Drug Administration of the federal government.

Since patents and regulation ( e. g., U. S. Food and Drug Administration regulation in the U. S .) are very important issues for biotech enterprises, bioengineers are often required to have knowledge related to these issues.

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

The Food and Drug Administration regulations in are used to strictly limit, for instance, television receivers to 0. 5 milliroentgens per hour ( mR / h ) ( 0. 13 µC /( kg · h ) or 36 pA / kg ) at a distance of from any external surface ; since 2007, most CRTs have emissions that fall well below this limit.

When used as a medication in the U. S., coal tar preparations are considered an OTC ( over-the-counter drug ) pharmaceutical and are subject to regulation by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Two federal agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine which substances are added to or removed from the various schedules, though the statute passed by Congress created the initial listing, and Congress has sometimes scheduled other substances through legislation such as the Hillory J. Farias and Samantha Reid Date-Rape Prevention Act of 2000, which placed gamma hydroxybutyrate in Schedule I.

Dairy products are generally defined as food produced from the milk of mammals ( the Food Standards Agency of the United Kingdom defines dairy as " foodstuffs made from mammalian milk ").

Food and beverages constitute some 40 percent of the sector, but textiles and leather are also important, the latter especially for the export market.

Food webs and trophic levels are two widely employed conceptual models used to explain the linkages among species.

Food webs are a type of concept map or a heuristic device that is used to illustrate and study pathways of energy and material flows.

Food webs are often limited relative to the real world.

Food webs exhibit principles of ecological emergence through the nature of trophic relationships: some species have many weak feeding links ( e. g., omnivores ) while some are more specialized with fewer stronger feeding links ( e. g., primary predators ).

Food webs are composed of subgroups where members in a community are linked by strong interactions, and the weak interactions occur between these subgroups.

Availability-Currently there are 20 medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the use of treatment of epileptic seizures in the US: carbamazepine ( common US brand name Tegretol ), clorazepate ( Tranxene ), clonazepam ( Klonopin ), ethosuximide ( Zarontin ), felbamate ( Felbatol ), fosphenytoin ( Cerebyx ), gabapentin ( Neurontin ), lacosamide ( Vimpat ), lamotrigine ( Lamictal ), levetiracetam ( Keppra ), oxcarbazepine ( Trileptal ), phenobarbital ( Luminal ), phenytoin ( Dilantin ), pregabalin ( Lyrica ), primidone ( Mysoline ), tiagabine ( Gabitril ), topiramate ( Topamax ), valproate semisodium ( Depakote ), valproic acid ( Depakene ), and zonisamide ( Zonegran ).

Food safety and food security are monitored by agencies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Food Information Council.

Where trade barriers are raised on the disputed grounds of public health and safety, the WTO refer the dispute to the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which was founded in 1962 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization.

The UNU Food and Nutrition Programme for Human and Social Development ( Ithaca, New York, USA ) is dedicated to improving lives by generating new knowledge, providing access to current food and nutrition information within institutions, and helping individual nutrition professionals and practitioners to apply that knowledge at a grassroots level.

FITTEST in Port au Prince during the 2010 Haiti earthquake emergency responseThe Fast Information Technology and Telecommunications Emergency and Support Team ( FITTEST ), is a group of technical specialists within the IT division of the World Food Programme ( WFP ).

* April 5 – During the Cold Food Festival, Chinese Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of tug of war within a palace of Chang ' an City.

Kinder Eggs are sold all over the world excluding the United States, as the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act contains a section highlighting that a confectionary product with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally imbedded within it, cannot be sold within the United States, unless the FDA issues a regulation that the non-nutritive object has functional value.

The 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act contains a section highlighting that a confectionery product with a non-nutritive object, partially or totally imbedded within it, cannot be sold within the United States, unless the FDA issues a regulation that the non-nutritive object has functional value.

On 31 March 2009 Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced his decision to confirm the designation of the South Downs National Park, which came into being exactly one year later and includes the town of Lewes within its boundaries.

Israel is a member of many agencies within the UN, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ), and the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ).

A new municipal justice complex including court, police department, and jail will be located within the former Food World building facing US 31 just north of the city center area.

The Soup Kitchen aka Food for the Soul based out of the Richmond Hill United Methodist Church's kitchen and manned by ten separate churches rotating on a weekly basis, delivers over 350 hot meals to families in need within Richmond Hill.

Wawa Food Markets has its headquarters in Chester Heights, within the Wawa area.

In the U. S. the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) is the body making legislation in what concerns cosmetic industry and its various aspects within the United States.

Sanitation within the food industry means the adequate treatment of food-contact surfaces by a process that is effective in destroying vegetative cells of microorganisms of public health significance, and in substantially reducing numbers of other undesirable microorganisms, but without adversely affecting the food or its safety for the consumer ( U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Code of Federal Regulations, 21CFR110, USA ).

The Slow Food movement incorporates a series of objectives within its mission, including:

Beyond the chapters established within the cities in the United States there are a number of Universities that are becoming recognized by Slow Food USA, including the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975, they ruled Pringles could only use the word " chip " in their product name within the following phrase: " potato chips made from dried potatoes ".

Food from flights within Canada were provided by LSG Sky Chefs and all other flights by local contractors.

A thousands copies of A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons were sold within a month of its publication.

According to the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), generic drugs are identical or within an acceptable bioequivalent range to the brand-name counterpart with respect to pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties.

Meanwhile, the " food experiences " within Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens include " The Amazing Wall of Cheese " which, at 18 feet high, features a 100 pound wheel of Blue Stilton, a " Fresh Food Hall ," where customers can order an omelette made from free-range eggs, a " Patisserie ," with handcrafted chocolate and fresh baked goods, a sit-down sushi bar and a tea emporium with over 100 types of loose-leaf tea to choose from.

:" Scope of practice in environmental health " means the practice of environmental health by registered environmental health specialists in the public and private sector within the meaning of this article and includes, but is not limited to, organization, management, education, enforcement, consultation, and emergency response for the purpose of prevention of environmental health hazards and the promotion and protection of the public health and the environment in the following areas: food protection ; housing ; institutional environmental health ; land use ; community noise control ; recreational swimming areas and waters ; electromagnetic radiation control ; solid, liquid, and hazardous materials management ; underground storage tank control ; onsite septic systems ; vector control ; drinking water quality ; water sanitation ; emergency preparedness ; and milk and dairy sanitation pursuant to Section 33113 of the Food and Agricultural Code.

It is supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( DEFRA ), with the aim of converting one third of the land within the boundaries of the National Forest ( 135 km², 33, 000 acres ) to woodland, by encouraging landowners to alter their land use.

On his election he became a member of the Agriculture Select Committee until he was promoted to the government of Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and was promoted within the same department to Minister of State after the 1992 general election by John Major, a year later he moved sideways to the Department for the Environment where he remained until the Major government fell at the 1997 general election.