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BSFM 2024- Reported food-borne outbreaks in Belgium, 2023
was detected in the implicated food and/or a strong epidemiological link was established with a specific food product. Three of these strong-evidence outbreaks were caused by norovirus: two outbreaks ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
onwards, community- andlivestock-associated MRSA emerged. Recently, a virulent eta/etb impetigo-related MRSA resistant to fusidic acid, firstdescribed in the Netherlands, was detected in Belgium. Health ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
channels for their purchase. Therefore, some of these products may be ‘suspicious’ and a risk for consumers health. This study aims at developing a screening approach for detection of four regulated plants ...
Innovative non-animal based testing platform to detect chemical-induced cardiotoxicity- A roadmap for regulatory uptake
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Sivakumar Murugadoss; Alexandra Schaffert; Ronette Gehring; Tom Roos; Nunzia Linzalone; Gabriele Donzelli; Martin Paparella; Birgit Mertens Source: 57th Congress of the European Soci ...
Innovative non-animal based testing platform to detect chemical-induced cardiotoxicity- A roadmap for regulatory uptake
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Sivakumar Murugadoss; Alexandra Schaffert; Ronette Gehring; Tom Roos; Nunzia Linzalone; Gabriele Donzelli; Martin Paparella; Birgit Mertens Source: Joint 3R Symposium, Brussels, Belg ...
Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges
for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) published the opinion 18-2021 regarding whole genome sequencing (WGS) for the detection of foodborne outbreaks and bacterial risk assessment. This opinion was ...
Chemical and toxciological characterization of e-liquid cigarettes
e-liquid refills. First, a comprehensive literature search was performed to obtain an overview about the chemical composition of the e-liquids and the analytical methods used for their detection. Although the ...
Characterization and hazard identification of substandard and falsified antimicrobials encountered in Belgium
a subsequent quantification method using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection (UHPLC- DAD) was also successfully validated. Next, real-life illegal antimicrobial samples, ...
Listeria surveillance in Belgium
evolution in molecular typing, the NRC completely switched to Whole-Genome-Sequencing (WGS) for cluster detection. Therefore, an in-house Galaxy-based bio-informatic pipeline was developed. For the strain ...
Evaluation of a TEM based Approach for Size Measurement of Particulate (Nano)materials
detection, working range, selectivity, precision, trueness, robustness, and ruggedness. An uncertainty that was associated to intermediate precision in the range of 1–7% and an expanded measurement uncertainty ...