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Development of novel analytical methods to trace small micro- and nanoplastics in food matrices

Foods,-, Paris, France (2023) Keywords: analytical methods food matrices microplastics nanoplastics Abstract: In the last decades, our life style significantly changed, for instance in terms of consumption ...

Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety

the host depletion DNA extraction method. We then investigated the issue of the detection and characterization of genetically modified microorganisms (GMM s) in microbial fermentation products as a case ...

Simultaneous Detection and Quantification of Aflatoxin M1, Eight Microcystin Congeners and Nodularin in Dairy Milk by LC-MS/MS

Keywords: cyanotoxins; aflatoxin M1 dairy milk Food Safety liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry method development Abstract: Dairy milk holds a prominent position as a widely consumed food, particularly ...

Residential Exposure to Urban Trees and Medication Sales for Mood Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease in Brussels, Belgium: An Ecological Study

prescribed for mood disorders and cardiovascular disease. Methods: We developed a workflow to automatically isolate all individual trees from airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data collected in ...

In utero exposure to parabens and early childhood BMI z-scores – Associations between placental ethyl paraben, longitudinal BMI trajectories and cord blood metabolic biomarkers

investigated longitudinal effects of in utero paraben exposure on early childhood trajectories of BMI  z-scores. Methods: Placental concentrations of four parabens [methyl (MeP), ethyl (EtP), propyl (PrP), and ...

Deepening of In Silico Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Detection RT-qPCR Assays in the Context of New Variants

Keersmaecker Source: Genes, Volume 12, Issue 4 (2021) Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; variants; detection; RT-qPCR; in silico specificity evaluation; bioinformatics tool; WGS data; mismatches; primers and probes ...

Use of Whole Genome Sequencing Data for a First in Silico Specificity Evaluation of the RT-qPCR Assays Used for SARS-CoV-2 Detection.

(consisting of a total of 30 primers and probe sets) used for SARS-CoV-2 detection and the impact of the virus’ genetic evolution on four of them. The exclusivity of these methods was also assessed using the ...

Evaluation of a TEM based Approach for Size Measurement of Particulate (Nano)materials

Source: Materials, Volume 12, Issue 14 (2019) Keywords: electron microscopy European Commission’s Recommendation for a definition of a nanomaterial image analysis Method validation nanomaterial particulate ...

Simultaneous determination of parabens, bisphenols and alkylphenols in human placenta by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography- tandem mass spectrometry

limits of detection and quantification are in the range of 0.1-0.3 ng g−1 and 0.2-0.7 ng g−1, respectively. The applicability of the method was demonstrated on  71 human placenta samples from a Belgian ...

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