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Identification and characterization of inorganic food additives and pearlescent pigments in sprays for food decoration by STEM-EDX
the properties of the particles consumers are exposed to. Samples were prepared by spraying 5mL in a glass vial and coated on EM-grids using the grid-on-drop method. Scanning transmission electron ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
its species in a representative sample of adolescents of the Walloon population in Belgium. We examined the associations of As and its species with habitual intakes of fish and rice and other possible ...
Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices
a diameter smaller 1 µm, called nanoplastics (NP s) that could be found in food matrices and environmental samples, by means of specific measurement techniques. Therefore, the aim of this work is to develop ...
Dietary exposure of Sorbates (E 200 – 202) and Benzoates (E 210 – 213) for the Belgian population
samples covering 32 Food (sub)Categories. SA and BA were mentioned on the label of 367 and 111 samples, respectively. SA were quantified in 97% of these samples, while BA were present in 86%. The ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
Materials and Methods Food samples were collected by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) and analysed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Foodborne outbreaks ...
Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
Keersmaecker Source: BSFM, BSFM, Brussels, Belgium (2023) Keywords: adaptive sampling nanopore outbreak investigation shotgun metagenomics Abstract: Introduction Traditionally, the investigation of suspect food ...
EFSA Project on the use of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for the hazard assessment of nanofibres. Lot 1, nanocellulose oral exposure: gastrointestinal digestion, nanofibres uptake and local effects
(iii) assessment of any digestion or degradation of NC by the human microbiome. Eight NC samples belonging to the three NC types, plus a comparator in the micro-range, were selected as study materials and ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
the Belgian Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, were classified using the above developed models. 10 out of 12 samples were suggestively found to be positive by binary modelling whereas 11 ...
Pyrogen testing of phage therapeutic products
Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Brussels. With a few exceptions, the results on different phages demonstrate that in general pyrogenic contamination is low for most samples. Health Topics: ...
Virological surveillance of influenza in Belgium, season 2019-2020
Respiratory samples were also analysed for other respiratory viruses. In the ILI population, 70 % of the patients were positive for at least one respiratory virus (including Influenza and co-infections). In ...