Integrating the latest biological advances in the key steps of a food packaging life cycle.

This literature review provides a focus on the potential of integrating the latest scientific and technological advances in the biological field to improve the status of the key steps of a food packaging life cycle: production, usage, post-usage, and long-term fate. A case study of such multi-biological food packaging is demonstrated based on the use of PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) polymer, a microbiologically produced polymer from non-food renewable resources, activated by the use of bioactive components to enhance its usage benefits by reducing food loss and waste, displaying potential for reusability, compostability as post-usage, and finally, being ultimately biodegradable in most common natural conditions to considerably reduce the negative impact that persistent plastics have on the environment. We discuss how designing safe and efficient multi "bio" food packaging implies finding a compromise between sometimes contradictory functional properties.

[Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Among Railway Employees in Azerbaijan].

We studied the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke in two groups of railway employees aged over 39 years including pensioners. The first (main) group included employees (n=15 671) responsible for movement of trains and exposed to `action of harmful occupational factors. The second (control) group included persons (n=19 132) who were not exposed to harmful occupational factors.

[About characteristics of mortality of workers of railway transport in the Republic of Azerbaijan].

The article deals with the results of the study of mortality of workers of railway transport in the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2005-2010. It is demonstrated that rate of total mortality of this group of population fluctuated in the limits of 1.58-2.