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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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
COMBINATION OF CHEMOMETRICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL FINGERPRINTING FOR DETECTION OF REGULATED PLANTS IN PLANT FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
campaigns and availability through various different platforms can be rendered as catalysts for their popularity. In regards to the Belgian market, suspicious samples entering the border generate serious ...
Spectroscopic approaches for conformity analysis of e-liquids
taurine, vitamin E and CBD in e-liquids. Therefore a set of 236 e-liquids was selected. Since samples with caffeine, taurine, CBD and vitamin E as additives were hard to find, some of the samples were split ...
Daily heart rate characteristics, allergy symptom severity and mood in adults with allergic rhinitis
acute, daily changing factors that could underlie these cardiac alterations. Aim: To estimate associations between daily heart rate characteristics (i.e. resting heart rate, autocorrelation and sample ...
From b to y ions, a decade of experience with peptide and protein analysis
elaborate on the techniques we employ to analyze such samples and give an overview of the substances we’ve encountered during the last decade. Health Topics: Médicaments illégaux Illegal medicines Illegale ...