"production continuum" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the continuous, long-term cycle of production and consumption in a particular industry or sector. For example, "The fashion industry is driven by a production continuum that is always evolving."
Contamination of litter in a broiler grow-out house with Salmonella prior to placement of a new flock has been shown to be a precursor of the flock's Salmonella contamination further down the production continuum.
In fact, the presence of Salmonella in the grow-out house, specifically in the litter, prior to placement of a new flock and contamination of the previous flock reared in the house have been shown to be precursors of higher Salmonella frequencies in the new flock at later stages of the production continuum [5] [7].
Continued surveillance of E. coli collected from agricultural and clinical settings, including the food production continuum, is merited to identify emerging antimicrobial-resistant phenotypes.
The nature of the management practice on the production-conservation continuum significantly influenced landholder preferences for policy instruments: different instruments were preferred for conservation-oriented practices versus production-oriented practices.
In order to accurately simulate the complicated shale gas flow and production, multi-continuum models shall be built up (Zhu and Zhang 2013).
Wan and Wang starts to model the sand production within a continuum mechanics framework (Wan and Wang 2000).
The presence of I-BrGDGTs throughout the studied soils, rivers and estuaries suggests in situ production across the continuum from soil to marine environments.
This is likely to be important for production of a continuum of tissue.
Intuitively, both agriculture and nutrition relate to food, yet our training institutions rarely provide instruction that covers the continuum from production to nourishment, leading trainees to "master" one aspect (e.g. soil fertility, postharvest handling, infant & young child feeding) without having a strong understanding of how their expertise relates to the entire food system.
A recent National Academies of Science report, Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food, argues for "the development of a comprehensive national plan to harmonize the foodborne disease surveillance that is conducted by public health agencies with the monitoring of pathogens across the food production, processing, and distribution continuum that is conducted by food safety regulatory agencies" (2).
Less attention has been drawn to alterations of the sediment continuum between sediment production in the river's catchment and downstream river reaches.
