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Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid in food
increase in serum total cholesterol in adults, and the decrease in antibody response at vaccination in children were identified as the critical effects. For PFOA, the increase in serum total cholesterol was ...
Investigating the risk-benefit balance of substituting red and processed meat with fish in a Danish diet.
guidelines recommend the Danish population to increase the consumption of fish while decreasing the consumption of red and processed meat to prevent nutrition-related diseases. However, the presence of ...
Plasticizers and bisphenol A, in packaged foods sold in the Tunisian markets: study of their acute in vivo toxicity and their environmental fate.
fruit juices (0.4 mg/kg), and chocolate (0.884 mg/kg). The obtained data in vivo clearly showed that the acute administration of BBP caused hepatic and renal damage as demonstrated by an increase in ...
Ecotoxicological potential of antibiotic pollution-industrial wastewater: bioavailability, biomarkers, and occurrence in Mytilus galloprovincialis.
pharmaceuticals in water sources in Tunisia. Residues in the natural environment have been of increasing concern due to their impact on bacteria resistance development and toxicity to natural communities and ...
Study of the possible migration risks of food contact materials for children under 3 years
“repetitive use conditions”. Analysis of the extracts from the microwave experiments showed a modest increase in the concentrations of the observed migrants (e.g. azacyclotridecan-2-one from the PA bottle: 124 ...
Strategies to detect unauthorized GMO in the food and feed chain (PhD thesis)
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/strategies-detect-unauthorized-gmo-food-and-feed-chain-phd-thesis
enforcement laboratories is becoming complex due mainly to the increasing number and diversity of GMO. To cope with the problematic of EU unauthorized GMO, this PhD aims to improve and strengthen the existing ...
Physical activity and sedentary behavior in Belgium (BNFCS2014): design, methods and expected outcomes.
sedentary behavior has been related with an increased risk for all-cause mortality. The accurate measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior is therefore vital to evaluate their health impact and ...
Short-term effect of pollen and spore exposure on allergy morbidity in the Brussels-Capital Region.
day of the week. We observed an augmentation in drug sales despite no significant increase in allergen levels in the long term. The relative risk of buying allergy medications associated with an ...
Evaluation of the migration of chemicals from baby bottles under standardised and duration testing conditions.
bottles, since it resulted in a lower release of substances afterwards. Repeated use of baby bottles under ‘real-life’ conditions showed no increase in the migration of investigated compounds and, after some ...
Current and new approaches in GMO detection: challenges and solutions
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/current-and-new-approaches-gmo-detection-challenges-and-solutions
However, given the increasing number and diversity of GMO developed and put on the market around the world, some technical hurdles could be encountered with the qPCR technology, mainly owing to its inherent ...