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The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
increasing trend seems to be levelling off since 2000. The purpose of this study is to examine this trend over the past two decades in Belgium and whether this trend differs by the parents’ socioeconomic ...
Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices
European project [3]. For this purpose, in this work, asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) has been coupled with multi-angle dynamic light scattering (MADLS) and Raman spectroscopy. In ...
Signals from the future: Exploring implications for drug policies
and uncertain outcome. By mapping when and how emerging issues and themes are likely to impact on the policy area, a shared sense of purpose is built and the requirements for mitigating threats and ...
Detection of regulated and prohibited plants in plant food supplements
Belgium the OMCL is regularly asked to perform analysis in this context, namely to identify/detect a certain plant in a herbal preparation, composed of a mixture of different plants. For this purpose the ...
Collaborative data collection by TREAT-NMD Registries to support post-marketing surveillance in Spinal Muscular Atrophy
committee, offering a single point of access to this diverse and extensive dataset. The TREAT- NMD SMA core dataset containing 23 data items was established in 2008 when the main purpose of the registries was ...
Biosafety in microbiology teaching laboratories
teaching laboratories Abstract: The purpose of the presentation was to present the results of a project conducted in Belgium. This project aimed to identify and evaluate the existing biosafety program within ...
Deformation at first presentation is associated with ulceration in active Charcot foot: a prospective follow-up study of 62 patients of the IQED-Foot study
prospectively registered 62 cases with acute Charcot foot in 2014 and followed them for up to six months in terms of treatment and outcome. Data were collected for the purpose of quality-of-care monitoring. The ...
Evolution of the implementation of a quality management system in the Belgian laboratories for anatomic pathology
purpose of this RD is to monitor and guarantee the quality of the Belgian laboratories for anatomic pathology. Since the 1th March 2014 all Belgian anatomic pathology laboratories are licensed. Within the ...
A modern tool for a conservative purpose: the use of MALDI-TOF MS in a fungal culture collection
collection is the long-term preservation of interesting strains to ensure their availability for the scientific community at large. The viability, purity and identity of a strain is verified before entering ...
Analysis of the short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy medication sales
Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, ISEE, São Paulo, Brazil (2015) Keywords: allergy medication exposure pollen sales spores Abstract: Allergic rhinitis takes a heavy toll ...