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part

an item such as a gearbox, steering wheel, etc. which is used in the assembly of another component or final product (such as a motorcar). See PARTS FAMILY CODING AND CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS, REPLACEMENT PARTS, ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT, AFTER-SALES SERVICE.

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At the June 2005 CSL/JIFSAN Joint Symposium on Food Safety and Nutrition: Bioactive Food Components I engaged in a lunch discussion with Joanne M.

Everything you thought you knew about calories is wrong

These include nutrients and their secondary metabolites--substances produced by metabolism--and other bioactive food components. The analytical methods help food manufacturers and researchers provide values to the USDA food-composition database that consumers can trust.

The first step--monitoring what we eat

Dietary approaches to lowering the risk of CVD include reducing consumption of saturated and trans fatty acids in the diet and increasing that of helpful heart protecting bioactive food components, such as monounsaturated fatty acids, plant sterols, omega-3 fatty acids, dietary fibre, dietary antioxidants, folic acid and vitamin B12.