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by Lee Yee Chung, Edmund. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Bibliography: leaves 14-17. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.ii / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.viii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.ix / PREFACE --- p.xii / Chapter CHAPTER I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Purpose of This Study --- p.2 / Chapter CHAPTER II --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.4 / Food of China --- p.4 / Kinds of Chinese Foods --- p.4 / Chinese Food Concepts --- p.5 / Characteristics of Chinese Foods --- p.7 / Food Trends in Foreign Countries --- p.9 / Consumer Behaviour of Chinese towards Canned Foods in Hong Kong --- p.10 / Canned Food Consumption in the United Kingdom --- p.11 / Responses of Canned Foods Company towards the Changing Food Trend --- p.12 / Healthy Canned Products --- p.12 / Specialty Markets --- p.12 / Other Methods --- p.13 / Bibliography --- p.14 / Books --- p.14 / Reports --- p.14 / Periodicals --- p.15 / Chapter CHAPTER III --- THE CANNED FOOD INDUSTRY --- p.17 / Types of Chinese Canned Foods --- p.17 / Chinese Canned Food Companies in Hong Kong --- p.18 / Major Brands of Chinese Canned Foods Manufactured in Mainland China --- p.19 / Chapter CHAPTER IV --- MARKET SITUATION OF CANNED FOODS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM --- p.22 / General Situation --- p.22 / Canned Meat --- p.23 / Canned Fish --- p.24 / Canned Vegetables --- p.24 / Canned Fruit --- p.24 / Canned Soup --- p.25 / Consumer Profile --- p.25 / Industry Supply --- p.30 / Foreign-Owned Manufacturers --- p.31 / UK-Owned Manufacturers --- p.33 / Other Companies --- p.35 / Distribution --- p.36 / Market Size and Trends --- p.37 / Market Situation of Chinese Canned Foods in London --- p.39 / Place --- p.39 / Product --- p.40 / Pricing --- p.40 / Promotion --- p.41 / Chapter CHAPTER V --- METHODOLOGY --- p.42 / Sources of Primary Data --- p.42 / Districts being Surveyed --- p.42 / Selected districts in London --- p.42 / Selected districts in Hong Kong --- p.42 / Sample Size --- p.43 / Quotas --- p.43 / By Race --- p.43 / By Age --- p.43 / By district --- p.43 / Design of Questionnaire --- p.44 / Criteria for Identifying Target --- p.44 / Method of Survey --- p.45 / Interviewing Procedures --- p.45 / Data Analysis --- p.46 / Chapter CHAPTER VI --- FINDINGS --- p.48 / Key Factors Influencing the Consumption of Chinese Canned Foods --- p.48 / Social Factors --- p.48 / Personal Factors --- p.49 / 4 P's --- p.50 / Chinese and Non-Chinese Female Consumers' Perception towards Chinese Canned Foods --- p.52 / Foreign Chinese and Non-Chinese Female Consumers' Reasons for Buying --- p.52 / Foreign Non-consumers' Reasons for Not Buying --- p.52 / Foreign Chinese and Non-Chinese Consumers' Buying Patterns for Chinese Canned Foods --- p.53 / Where Do the Consumers Buy --- p.53 / How Do They Buy --- p.54 / Who Buys It --- p.54 / What to Buy --- p.55 / Why to Buy --- p.55 / Who Likes It --- p.55 / Chapter CHAPTER VII --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.56 / Pricing --- p.56 / Raise Retail Price --- p.56 / Promotion --- p.56 / Chinese Canned Food Exhibition --- p.56 / Chinese Canned Food Cooking Demonstrations --- p.57 / Opinions from Experts --- p.57 / Girls in Traditional Dress --- p.58 / A Whole Shelf of Chinese Canned Foods --- p.58 / Product Sampling Package --- p.58 / Advertising --- p.59 / Food Trials --- p.59 / Promotion by Using Pamphlets --- p.59 / Cents-off coupons and Rebates --- p.60 / Product --- p.60 / Sell Package --- p.60 / Emphasize Medical Values --- p.61 / Put Emphasis on Canned Vegetarian Foods --- p.61 / Emphasize Famous Chinese Dishes --- p.62 / Special Kinds of Canned Fruits --- p.62 / Reduce Additives --- p.62 / Packaging --- p.62 / Distribution --- p.65 / Sell in Major Supermarkets and Groceries --- p.65 / Chinese Canned Foods Specialty Stores --- p.65 / Chapter CHAPTER VIII --- LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY --- p.66 / Limitations of the Research --- p.66 / Small Sample Limited to London --- p.66 / Only Urban Population --- p.66 / Recommendations based only on Marketing Research --- p.67 / No Detailed Marketing Plan --- p.67 / Chapter CHAPTER IX --- CONCLUSION --- p.68

by Sum Kwok-fong, Louisa [and] Wong Wai-ling, Jacqueune. / Bibliography: leaf 63 / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1985

High pressure (HP) sterilization of low acid foods is a process involving HP at elevated temperatures. Data available on HP destruction kinetics of pressure resistant pathogenic, spoilage-causing and surrogate bacterial spores are limited, but essential for establishing such a process. While compression heating could be employed to provide the elevated temperature, accurate data gathering under such conditions is difficult due to rapid heat loss during the treatment. The objectives of this research were to first standardize the set up carrying out HP tests at elevated and stabilized temperatures, and subsequently to evaluate HP destruction kinetics of selected bacterial spores under HP elevated temperature processing conditions. / The set-up consisted of a thick insulated chamber for holding samples during the test. A relationship was established for the adiabatic temperature rise milk which was used as the main low acid food medium: DeltaTP = -0.306 + 0.0224Ti + 0.0423P + 4.49x10-4T i2 + 1.31x10-4TiP -- 1.24x10 -5P2 (R2 =0.999, n = 50, SE = 0.20°C, p<0.05). Initial temperatures at 83.5, 91.7, 95.8°C and 80.7, 88.9, 93.0°C provided operating process temperature 121, 130, 135°C, at 800, 900MPa, respectively. / Destruction kinetics tests were carried with two strains of Clostridium sporogenes (11437, 7955) and Geobacillus stearothermophilus 10149 spores suspended in milk at 700-900 MPa and 70-100°C. These strains were selected for their relatively high pressue and thermal resistance. The survival counts were well fitted by first order linear models. The D values C. sporogenes 11437 varied from 0.73 min at 900 MPa 100°C to 17.0 min at 700 MPa 80°C HP treatments while they ranged from 6.0 to 833 min at 80-100°C under thermal processing conditions. The D values associated with of C. sporogenes 7955 spores were higher and varied from 1.3 min at 900 MPa 100°C to 38.2 min at 700 MPa 80°C HP treatments, and from 12.1 to 156 min at 80-100°C during thermal treatments. The D values of Geobacillus stearothermophilus 10149 spores varied from 0.6 min at 900 MPa 90C to 20.9 min at 500 MPa 70°C HP treatments with 6.3 to 49.4 min for thermal treatments at 110-120°C. Hence C. sporogenes 7955 spores were the most resistant among those studied. The HP destruction kinetics of C. sporogenes 7955 spores were also studied in salmon and were lower than in milk. / Pressure resistance screening of selected group I C. botulinum spores was carried out at 800-900 MPa at 90-100°C. Nominal D values of each strain were evaluated which demonstrated that PA9508B, H09504A and CK2-A were the more resistant spores (PA9508B > HO9504A > CK2-A). HP destruction kinetics of C. botulinum PA9508B spores in milk were evaluated in detail at 700-900 MPa at 90-100°C and parallel thermal treatment at 90-100°C. The survival counts were again described by first order linear models (R2 >0.86). The D values varied from 0.35 min at 900 MPa 110°C to 38.9 min at 700 MPa 90°C for HP treatments and 14.4 to 273 min at 90-100°C for thermal treatments. These demonstrated that HP processing combined with elevated temperatures will accelerate the spore destruction rate. However, the associated D values of C. botulinum PA9508B spores in milk were more resistant than those of C. sporogenes 7955 at 90, 100°C, which indicated that the surrogate may not be very effective for using as a target for verification HP at elevated temperature processing conditions. / Overall, this work has demonstrated several findings. The non-pathogenic C. sporogenes 7955 spore was the most resistant surrogate but the pathogenic C. botulinum PA9508B spore was even more resistant. D values associated with HP at elevated temperatures were higher than under conventional thermal treatments, and hence provide accelerated destruction kinetics at least for the non-pathogenic spores and hence better spoilage control. However, from safety point of view the conventional thermal sterility requirements would still persist even under HP processing conditions. Milk as a low acid food medium provided more resistance for HP destruction than fish.

El objetivo principal de este proyecto es determinar la viabilidad tecnológica, económica, financiera, de mercado y social para la instalación de una planta procesadora de conservas de ciruela (Spondias purpurea) en almíbar para el consumo nacional. / The main objective of this project is to determine the economic, financial, social and market viability to install a factory of canned plum (Spondias purpurea) in syrup for national consumption. / Trabajo de investigación

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This study is an analysis of the attempts to control the marketing of asparagus by federal license under the Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1934 and 1935; by state license under the California Marketing Agreement Act in 1936 and 1937; by proration program under the California Agricultural Prorate Act in 1938 to 1941; and by marketing orders under the California Agricultural Code from 1941 to 1945. Among the questions considered are the following: What was the economic position of the Asparagus Industry in 1934, when the programs were first instituted? What were the effects of some previous attempts at controlled marketing of asparagus? What types of controls were undertaken in the asparagus industry? What was the administrative setup and particularly the problem of the appropriateness of such controls in a "free enterprise" society?

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2005. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Please see fulltext for abstract / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Sien asb volteks vir opsomming