The aim of this essay is to analyze how Food and meals produce and reproduce values and power relations and how these processes are portrayed in Virginia Woolf?s To the Lighthouse. Using sociological writings in the field of Food consumption and production I study the structures that affect our relation to Food and eating. This perspective is combined with a phenomenological view, aiming to examine how Food is perceived, which is also inspired by queer theories. Using the method of close reading, the theories are applied to Woolf?s work.

To achieve the Government's milestones for 2018, which means that 50 % of Food waste shall be separated from household waste and undergo biological treatment (composting or anaerobic digestion).   Hultsfred, Högsby and Vimmerby are three adjacent municipalities of Kalmar, county Småland. During 2012 and 2013 analyzes were performed on their household waste to determine its composition. The household waste is currently collected in one fraction. The work, examines how much Food waste the household waste contains. From the amount of Food waste, the biogas potential is examined - how much Food waste biogas generates and how much energy it corresponds to.   Food waste is broken down by microorganisms under anaerobic conditions (anaerobic digestion) in a biogas plant.

In December 2008 the municipal council in Nybro, decided that the municipality shouldreduce the budget for Food service. The budget should be reduced by 2 100 000 SEK.They decided that the children- and education committee, and the care committee would haveto lower their budget with 1 264 000 SEK respectively 636 000 SEK. The change have to bedone under two years, 60 % should be done under 2009 and 40 % under 2010.As a result of the decision, many kitchens have to become kitchens that only serve Food, notcook it. This will result in preschool staff and nursing staff take over some of the tasks fromthe kitchen staff. The municipal council also decided that entrepreneurs could take over one(later two) cooking areas.A kitchen that serves Food means that there isn?t any cooking involved.

In our everyday life we are faced with many choices that have consequences on the environment. One of these is the Food we choose to eat since Food production has a big impact on the environment. In organic production the aim is to have a natural production process, where environmental impacts are minimized. By choosing organic Food it is therefore possible to contribute to a better environment. A large number of meals are served every day in the public sector, which makes it an important player in the consumer sector that could make a major difference for the environment..

An organisation in Skåne, Miljösamverkan Skåne, presented a project in 2011 concerning Food labeling. All municipalities in Skåne, audited certain products in several stores, in order to determine if they were labeled correctly according to law. Stores who produced their own Food where also audited. As Swedes generally have an interest in buying and cooking Food from different countries, the demand is increasing, which makes stores provide the customers with a large range of different products to accommodate the demand. This essay will discuss the results of the project and how incorrect Food labeling can affect human health.

 The Food-safety legislation in Sweden were changed and updated in 1996, much because of demands from the European Union for a common legislation regarding the Food-safety issues in the EU. This report discusses how the Swedish authorities are dealing with the new legislation in Sweden. Further on the report presents how the Food safety officers in the municipalities in Sweden are implementing this new legislation in their daily work, especially the requirements regarding the HACCP, Hazard Analysis Control and Checkpoints. The report shows that the implementation is quite slow and that many Foodsafety-officers don?t implement the legislation in the same way all over the country.

Launching and marketing a health Food product is associated with larger problems than a launch of a traditional Food product. There are several sales channels that can be used for a health Food product, for example the product can be sold as a traditional Food product, natural health Food product or as a prescription drug. A smaller company can however experience problems while launching its product as a prescription drug because of the large costs associated with this particular sales channel. There is often no other alternative than to launch the product as a traditional Food product, this can however create other problems because of the existing regulations on what can and cannot be mentioned in the marketing of a health Food product. The limited amount of information about the product that can be enclosed together with it makes it hard for a company to differentiate and position it on the market.

The aim of this study was to investigate how the process of implementing a quality management system for Food safety was handled in four different Food producing companies in Sweden. The aim was also to analyze what difficulties the companies face and the possibilities that arise when certified. Furthermore, the reason for implementation was discussed as well as the main expectations on the certificate. Implementing a quality management system is a good way of ensuring the quality and hygiene of the Food production and it also increases the traceability of Food products through the whole Food chain. A Food safety standard provides a method of preventing problems and crisis and it can also help to handle requirements from authorities, the market and others.

In our everyday life we are faced with many choices that have consequences on the environment. One of these is the Food we choose to eat since Food production has a big impact on the environment. In organic production the aim is to have a natural production process, where environmental impacts are minimized. By choosing organic Food it is therefore possible to contribute to a better environment. A large number of meals are served every day in the public sector, which makes it an important player in the consumer sector that could make a major difference for the environment..

North of the city of Stockholm lies the area called Södra Roslagen composed of several municipalities. The purpose of this essay is to discover how local informants describe the Food culture of the region and analyse why some types of Food are mentioned and others are excluded. Several people within the Food industry of Södra Roslagen were given surveys asking them to describe the Food habits of the area, from commodities and certain dishes to traditions. These answers were analysed using the theories regional Food, regiocentrism, revitalisation, placeless Food and the idea of viewing culture through the long and the short perspective.One informant mentioned that professionals in the Food industry of the region tend to follow trends from the rest of the world and another that many producers work with ecological requirements. Södra Roslagen was also defined by some as having a taste of summer as this coastal area sees an influx of visitors during that season.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the different substrates that enter the digestion on Sundet wastewater treatment plant for production of biogas.This work have done an analysis of data about the biogasproduction from January 2012 to feburari 2013, this showed that the Food substrates has a greater gas production than internal sludge.Through laboratory test the VS, TS and COD values for all the substrates used in the biogas production could be determinded. But the COD-method was less optimal for analysis of fat and Food, therefore it optimized the method for fat but due to time constraints, this could not be done on the Food substrates..

Title: Food companies' work with CSR and its impact on consumer purchases of organic productsLevel: Final assignment for Bachelor Degree in Business AdministrationAuthor: Maria Nilsson and Mikaela JaredalSupervisor: Agneta SundströmDate: June 2015Aim: The study aims to understand and describe how Food chains affect consumer choice to buy organic Food and how it affects their buying behaviour.Method: Firstly a qualitative study was conducted. It consisted of six semi-structured interviews with store managers and employees on Willys and Coop in Sala and in Nyköping. Secondly a quantitative study was performed in the form of a questionnaire with 80 consumers in Willys and Coop stores located in Sala and Nyköping.Result & Conclusions: We have seen that price is important when consumers decide whether to buy organic Food or not. This has been noticed by the Food chains who work actively with being able to offer organic Food at lower prices. Other factors that affect the consumers choice to buy organic products are offers, displaying and advertising.

Food is widely consumed and in 2011 an average American devoured approximately one ton of Food. The production of these goods requires large amounts of energy and contributes to 22-31 % of all greenhouse gas emissions occurring in Europe. More than one third of the produced Food is discarded instead of consumed, and Food waste make up about 30 % of the waste generated by households. 60 % of this Food waste could be avoided if the eatables were handled in a better way.Avoidable Food waste arises partly because residues from Food are not taken care of, and because the Food is not stored in a way that optimise its durability. Residues arises part- ly because of the contradictory and complex demands of everyday life and are, because of our busy lifestyle, difficult to avoid.

This paper gives the reader an opportunity to explore new grounds regarding a relatively new field that has opened in Sweden. The result is based on an explorative research conducted by us, with starting point whether immigrants, consisting of Middle Eastern ones, can be seen as an attractive target group for big grocery shops. In order to understand whether they are attractive to target, we need to grasp underlying factors such as our research question: ?What are the habits of Middle Eastern consumers regarding Food that marketers from Sweden can target?? To do so we were forced to investigate what kind of lifestyle an immigrant from the Middle East has, since the immigrant?s lifestyle influences what sort of Food he/she will consume. When investigating the lifestyle we were able to concentrate on certain areas that we saw had a clear relation in influencing immigrants? Food choices, such as religion, acculturation and so forth.

Clostridium difficile is a grampositive, anaerobe bacteria with a spore-forming ability. The bacteria is present in the environment, can be isolated from animals and is common in hospitals, where it is a known cause of severe diarrhoea in compromised patients. Lately scientists have been discussing whether Cl. difficile could be a new Food-borne pathogen. The bacteria has been isolated from Food-producing animals and from meat products. In this pilot study 82 meat products, bought from swedish shops during a periode of four months, were investigated.