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Identification and characterization of inorganic food additives and pearlescent pigments in sprays for food decoration by STEM-EDX
control laboratories and only limited guidance is currently available3. This study developed electron microscopy-based methods to identify and characterize the particles of individual components in eight ...
ESCAIDE 2022 Oral presentation: International outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to a chocolate factory in 2022: Belgian findings
investigations indicated two clusters: HC5_296366 (cluster 1) and HC5_298160 (cluster 2). We assessed the extent of the outbreak in Belgium and took measures to limit further spread. Methods Probable and ...
Shotgun metagenomics as a ONE Health tool for better protecting human health
composing genes such as virulence or antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, without prior knowledge, nor the need to isolate. Such approaches could offer efficient and fast solutions to limitations faced by ...
Open Lab Application for the Characterization of Nanomaterials by Transmission Electron Microscopy
dedicated infrastructures remain limited to specialized research institutions. Over the last years the National Reference Laboratory for Nanomaterials in Food of Sciensano (Belgium) has acquired high level ...
Proteomic detection as an alternative for the quantification of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins
existence of the toxins in foods and immunoassays are not specific enough, not suitable for quantification and more importantly limited in the range of toxins they can identify. The proteomic approach method ...
Design of multiplex assays for molecular subtyping of pathogens with the Luminex xMAP technology
IT limitation Limitations Luminex microorganism microorganisms Molecular molecular subtyping Multiplex assay Oligonucleotides outbreak outbreaks pathogen reducing regulation Sample SOFTWARE specificity ...
Food contamination with pyrrolizidine alkaloids: the expected and the unexpected
Several steps were carefully optimized for each targeted food matrices with a specific focus on very low limits of quantification (LOQ s < 1 ng/g or ng/mL), taking into account the various interfering ...
UHPLC-MS/MS methods for the quantification of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in a wide range of food matrices and exposure assessment for the Belgian population
Several steps were carefully optimized for each targeted food matrices with a specific focus on very low limits of quantification (LOQ s < 1 ng/g or ng/mL), taking into account the various interfering ...
Investigation of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons contamination in spices and dried herbs available on the Belgian market
samples contain no PAH s higher the individual detection limit (0.5 ng/g) and only one sample exceed slightly the EU legislation. Regarding preliminary results, PAH s contamination of spices and dried herbs ...