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Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
various living organisms or the cultivation parameters. Moreover, the current methods require a subsequent but not always successful isolation. In part due to these two drawbacks, not all outbreaks can be ...
How theory can help to understand the potential impact of food environment policies on socioeconomic inequalities in diet: an application of Bourdieu's capital theory and the scarcity theory.
groups. In essence, these theories enable us to understand how specific elements of broader daily living conditions (e.g. social practices that lead to habitus formation, material conditions that shape ...
The Changing Landscape of Food Deserts and Swamps over More than a Decade in Flanders, Belgium.
swamps between 2008 and 2020 was assessed. Special focus was given to areas where high numbers of elderly, young people and/or families with low income live. Food deserts were calculated based on ...
Advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages around primary and junior high schools in Ghana's most urbanized and populous region.
Such advertising, within and around settings where children live, learn, and play, negatively affects their food acquisition and consumption. We examined the extent and nature of food and beverage ...
Risk to human health related to the presence of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and perfluorooctanoic acid in food
metabolism. Estimated human half-lives for PFOS and PFOA are about 5 years and 2?4 years, respectively. The derivation of a health-based guidance value was based on human epidemiological studies. For PFOS, the ...
Hair mercury and urinary cadmium levels in Belgian children and their mothers within the framework of the COPHES/DEMOCOPHES projects.
(≤ 45 years) living in urban or rural areas of Belgium. The geometric mean levels for mercury in hair were 0.383 μg/g and 0.204 μg/g for respectively mothers and children. Cadmium in mother’s and ...
Mycotoxin analyses in some home produced eggs in Belgium reveal small contribution to the total daily intake.
producers and other household members, it is worthwhile to further pay attention to the quality of feed as well as the environment in which the hens live. Health Topics: Food consumption and food safety ...
Energy Drink Consumption among Adolescents Attending Schools in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo.
ED s was between 51.3 mg and 441.3 mg among those consuming ED s regularly. CONCLUSION: Our study convincingly demonstrates that caffeine-containing ED s are not only consumed by youngsters living in ...