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Assessment of estrogenic compounds in paperboard for dry food packaging with the ERE-CALUX bioassay
a bioanalytical tool to investigate estrogenic activities of paperboard food packaging and its characteristics, including recycling rate and printing ink. A “worst case” scenario with full extraction is compared to ...
Human psittacosis: a review with emphasis on surveillance in Belgium.
Belgium, the number of reported positive laboratory results increased slowly since 2010, and in 2017, the number almost doubled compared to the two previous years. The number of psittacosis cases in Belgium, ...
Epidemiology and genotype 3 subtype dynamics of hepatitis E virus in Belgium, 2010 to 2017.
past decade in many European countries. Since 2010, the National Reference Centre (NRC) for Hepatitis Viruses has been testing samples of suspected hepatitis E cases in Belgium.AimIn this surveillance ...
Global burden of intellectual disability resulting from dietary exposure to lead, 2015
notable effects are those that occur on the nervous system. This is particularly the case in the exposure to the fetus, infant and child. Infants and children generally have higher lead exposures on a body ...
A probabilistic approach for risk-benefit assessment of food substitutions: A case study on substituting meat by fish
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Sofie Theresa Thomsen; Waldo de Boer; Sara M Pires; Brecht Devleesschauwer; Sisse Fagt; Rikke Andersen; Poulsen, Morten; Hilko van der Voet Source: Food Chem Toxicol, Volume 126, Number 96 (2019) ...
Hazard characterization and risk assessment of mineral oils: Case study with information obtained in Belgian MinOil study
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Birgit Mertens Source: ILSI workshop ‘Mineral Oil Risk Assessment: Knowledge Gaps and Roadmap’, Brussels (Belgium) (2019) Service: Évaluation des risques et de l'impact sur la ...
Paediatric haemolytic uraemic syndrome related to Shiga toxin-producing, an overview of 10 years of surveillance in France, 2007 to 2016.
present the results of this surveillance between 2007 and 2016.MethodsA voluntary nationwide network of 32 paediatric departments notifies cases. Two national reference centres perform microbiological STEC ...
Impact of the human papillomavirus status on the development of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in women negative for intraepithelial lesions or malignancy at the baseline: A 9-year Swedish nested case-control follow-up study.
Volume 125, Issue 2 (2019) Keywords: Adult Case-Control Studies Female Follow-Up Studies Human papillomavirus 16 Human papillomavirus 18 Humans middle aged Papillomaviridae Papillomavirus Infections Risk ...
How to overcome political and legal barriers to the implementation of a drug consumption room: an application of the policy agenda framework to the Belgian situation
explicitly penalises the supply of a room for facilitating drug use. Despite this adverse legal and policy framework, a DCR opened in the city of Liège in 2018. In this case report, we applied the theoretical ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
burden of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in countries of the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) in 2015, measured in number of cases, attributable deaths, and ...