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Update of the risk assessment of nickel in food and drinking water
adult age groups, but generally exceeded the TDI in toddlers and in other children, as well as in infants in some surveys. This may raise a health concern in these young age groups. The MOE values for the ...
Risk assessment of glycoalkaloids in feed and food, in particular in potatoes and potato‐derived products
data available, a margin of exposure (MOE) approach was applied. The MOE s for the younger age groups indicate a health concern for the food consumption surveys with the highest mean exposure, as well as ...
Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluoroalkyl substances in food
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/risk-human-health-related-presence-perfluoroalkyl-substances-food
mean LB exposure in adolescents and adult age groups ranged from 3 to 22, the 95th percentile from 9 to 70 ng/kg body weight (bw) per week. Toddlers and ‘other children’ showed a twofold higher exposure. ...
The Belgian health examination survey: objectives, design and methods.
group included all Belgian residents aged 18 years and older. The BELHES was organized as a second stage of the sixth Belgian Health Interview Survey (BHIS). This paper describes the study design, ...
Risk assessment of ochratoxin A in food
exception of MOE s for high consumers in the younger age groups, indicating a possible health concern. When compared with the BMDL10 based on the neoplastic endpoint, MOE s were lower than 10,000 for almost ...
ADVANCE database characterisation and fit for purpose assessment for multi-country studies on the coverage, benefits and risks of pertussis vaccinations.
of the database population (size, representatively of age/sex of national population, rounding of birth dates, delay between birth and database entry), vaccinations (number of vaccine doses, recording ...
Risk assessment of aflatoxins in food
contribution to the mean chronic dietary exposure to AFB1 in all age classes, while ‘liquid milk’ and ‘fermented milk products’ were the main contributors to the AFM1 mean exposure. Aflatoxins are genotoxic and ...
Age-specific vaccination coverage estimates for influenza, human papillomavirus and measles containing vaccines from seven population-based healthcare databases from four EU countries – The ADVANCE project
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Braeye, Toon; Emborg, Hanne-Dorthe; Llorente-García, Ana; Huerta, Consuelo; Martín-Merino, Elisa; Duarte-Salles, Talita; Danieli, Giorgia; Tramontan, Lara; Weibel, Daniel; McGee, Chris; Villa, Ma ...
Age-specific vaccination coverage estimates for influenza, human papillomavirus and measles containing vaccines from seven population-based healthcare databases from four EU countries – The ADVANCE project
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Braeye, Toon; Emborg, Hanne-Dorthe; Llorente-García, Ana; Huerta, Consuelo; Martín-Merino, Elisa; Duarte-Salles, Talita; Danieli, Giorgia; Tramontan, Lara; Weibel, Daniel; McGee, Chris; Villa, Ma ...
Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response.
interview survey. METHODS: A pilot study (n = 266, age 15+) was organized using a mixed-mode SAQ design following the F2F interview. Respondents were invited to complete a web SAQ either immediately after the ...