Introduction Packaging is the technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, indust...
CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Plants have provided a source of inspiration for novel drug compounds, as plant derived medicines have made large contributions to human health and wellbeing. Plant extracts have been used for a wide variety of purposes for many thousands of years (Jones, 1996). The antimicrobial activity of plant oils and extracts has formed the basis of many applications, including raw and processed food preservatives, pharmaceuticals, alternative medicine and natural therapies ...
ABSTRACT Erythromycin is antibiotics produced from a strain ofStreptomyces erythreus (later changed to "Saccharopolyspora erythraea") which belongs to the group of macrolides which tends to inhibit the growth/development of bacteria. It sometimes exhibits bactericidal characteristics when administered in high concentration. It carries out its bacteriostatic actions by binding to the 23s RNA component of the 50s ribosome of the bacteria, thereby interfering with the assembly of the 50...
