Resting state EEG relates to short- and long-term cognitive functioning after cardiac arrest.

Background: Approximately half of cardiac arrest survivors have persistent cognitive impairment. Guidelines recommend early screening to identify patients at risk for cognitive impairment, but there is no consensus on the best screening method. We aimed to identify quantitative EEG measures relating with short- and long-term cognitive function after cardiac arrest for potential to cognitive outcome prediction.

Additional predictive value of optic nerve sheath diameter for neurological prognosis after cardiac arrest: a prospective cohort study.

Background: The goal is to estimate the additional value of ultrasonographic optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurement on days 1-3, on top of electroencephalography (EEG), pupillary light reflexes (PLR), and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP), for neurological outcome prediction of comatose cardiac arrest patients. We performed a prospective longitudinal cohort study in adult comatose patients after cardiac arrest. ONSD was measured on days 1-3 using ultrasound.

Active and intelligent packaging: applications and regulatory aspects.

Changes in the way foods are produced, distributed, stored and retailed, reflecting the continuing increase in consumer demands for improved quality and extended shelf-life for packaged foods, are placing ever-greater demands on the performance of food packaging. Consumers want to be assured that the packaging is fulfilling its function of protecting the integrity, quality, freshness and safety of foods. To provide this assurance and help improve the performance of the packaging, innovative active and intelligent packaging concepts are being developed and applied in various countries.

Quality and safety aspects of reusable plastic food packaging materials: a European study to underpin future legislation.

The objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive package of quality assurance criteria for use by industry and regulatory authorities for ensuring the quality and safety-in-use (sensory, microbiological and chemical) of reused plastics for food packaging. The study included thermal degradation effects, flavour carry-over caused by flavour and off-flavour substances, the influence of washing processes on the materials, and the efficiency of washing processes in removing off-flavour substances and surrogate substances representing misuse chemicals as might be put in bottles by consumers. The microbial safety of the refillable plastic articles in relation to commercial washing processes and the industrial procedures applied has also been investigated.

The suitability of alternative fatty food simulants for overall migration testing under both low- and high-temperature test conditions.

The suitability of various alternative, volatile fatty food simulants for overall migration testing was investigated under both low- and high-temperature test conditions. The overall migration into olive oil from a large number of commercially used food packaging materials applying various low- and high-temperature test conditions (e.g.