Shell recently said it would again delay its Alaska exploration project, thanks to a combination of regulatory hurdles and technological challenges.
In order to come to a knowledge-based rather than a mainly empirical combination of appropriate preservation hurdles, we will introduce the application of the recently booming genomics technology in food processing.
Leistner (1994) introduced the hurdle concept, or hurdle effect as discussed in the previous chapter, to illustrate the fact that in most foods, a combination of preservation parameters (hurdles) accounts for their final microbial stability and safety.
However, despite the obvious strengths, this technology has been slow to be adopted into clinical routine in the United Kingdom due to a combination of financial considerations, regulatory hurdles and logistical challenges.
The Derby league consists of both men and women's teams, and the sport is a combination of roller skating, hockey, hurdling, and jousting in canoes.
The development of such an imaging method, which is complicated by a combination of anatomical, biological and technical hurdles [ 2, 3], may be eased by the use of sensitive and beta cell-specific probes.
The evolution of drying technology, divided into four generations, is thoroughly reviewed, from tray drying to the combination of some drying technologies (the hurdle technology approach in drying) in order to optimize the process in terms of final food quality and energy consumption.
The question, though, is whether any future consolidation effort in Europe will be stymied by the same combination of national and vested interests and other hurdles.
A second category of people, 50,000 or more who have established themselves elsewhere but who could return, may be even harder to recapture, given the combination of past weaknesses and continuing present-day hurdles.
A number of hurdles remain.
