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Food Consumption in the Brussels Capital Region and the German speaking Community
identification of extreme values. The final section describes the analytical approach used to derive indicators of food group intake and to evaluate adherence to food-based dietary guidelines. Health Topics: ...
Food consumption Survey 2022-2023- Estimation of food and supplement consumption and nutrient intake in the Belgian population
food-based dietary guidelines, and how nutrient intake was compared to dietary reference values to evaluate adequacy and possible excess of nutrient intake. Energy intake was specifically evaluated for ...
Food consumption survey 2022-2023: Evaluation of macro- and micronutrient intake in the Belgian population
This fourth summary report presents key findings on the nutrient intake in the population in Belgium and the adherence of nutrient intake to dietary reference values. It includes results on the habitual ...
Metagenomics-based tracing of genetically modified microorganism contaminations in commercial fermentation products
these findings highlight the need for guidelines and quality control for traceability of these products to ensure the safety of consumers. This study demonstrates the added value of metagenomics to obtain ...
A citizen-centred approach to public engagement on the ethical, legal and societal issues of health technologies
investigate its intrinsic value. Starting from the assumption that public engagement must primarily empower citizens and not those who already have enough power to make their voices heard, we argue that the ...
Accuracy of Liferiver HarmoniaHPV and VenusHPV Assays on Urine and Vaginal Self-Samples.
self-sample types, whereas the specificity was similar to cervical samples. Post-hoc adjustment of the VenusHPV C-values improved sensitivity (ratio FVU /cervical = 0.94 [95% CI 0.88-1.00]; ratio ...
Evaluation of a rapid lateral flow assay for the detection of taeniosis and cysticercosis at district hospital level in Tanzania: A prospective multicentre diagnostic accuracy study.
taeniosis, and 126, 122, and 55 participants for cysticercosis. Sensitivity values for the TS POC T test strip were 50.2% [95% credible interval 4.9 — 96.4], 40.8% [2.2 — 95.2], and 40.4% [2.3 — 95.0], while ...
Comparing the applicability of de facto population markers for spatiotemporal trend analysis in wastewater-based epidemiology
potential as population markers. However, their applicability is influenced by sociodemographic factors and thus site-specific. Overall, their value lies in providing complementary information for ...
Development of a shotgun metagenomics workflow for the comprehensive surveillance of biological impurities in vitamin-containing food products
s. The workflow not only confirmed the presence of known biological impurities but also uncovered unexpected ones, demonstrating the added value of a metagenomics-based open approach for impurity ...
Mass Spectrometric Fingerprinting to Detect Fraud and Herbal Adulteration in Plant Food Supplements
plants in plant mixtures is sparsely researched. This paper aims to check its value for herbal adulteration concerning plants with slimming as an indication. Moreover, it is among the first to exploit the ...