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

microbiological foodborne contaminants to the strain level and with achievement of a relatedness study (phylogeny), with a focus on the applicability of the method in order to be easily implemented in reference ...

Quality control and correction method for air temperature data from a citizen science weather station network in Leuven, Belgium

trend toward urbanisation and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events emphasise the need for further monitoring and understanding of weather in cities. In order to gain information ...

In Silico Methods for Chromosome Damage.

addressed. For chromosome damage, i.e., the induction of structural or numerical chromosome aberrations, several in vitro and in vivo test methods are available. In order to rapidly collect toxicological data ...

Acid digestion of nonwoven textiles for measuring their trace element content by ICP techniques

strong acidic media in order to perform a complete digestion of nonwoven textiles, which can be found in face masks. In particular, this protocol allows the digestion of PET-, PTFE-, polyamide- and ...

Migration of mineral oil from cardboard packaging for food: Identification of the hazards and assessment of the exposure of the Belgian population

Bel; I Boonen; Els Van Hoeck Source: (2019) Accession Number: D/2019/14.440/8 Abstract: Mineral oil can enter the food via different routes. In order to obtain more insights in the extent of the mineral ...

The need for European OneHealth/EcoHealth networks.

disease prevention healthcare strategy. It was also suggested that a European Community of Practice could be initiated in order to support these several concrete networking initiatives, and to help to ...

Dermal exposure of Belgian florists to insecticide residues

Issue KU Leuven, NA (2017) Keywords: an AS at Belgium biological sciences chromatography Combination effect exposure florist GC Hand health Lead LEVEL levels measure method national ON Order pesticide ...

Slurry photocatalytic membrane reactor technology for removal of pharmaceutical compounds from wastewater: Towards cytostatic drug elimination

ambulant patients leading to diluted concentration in the municipal waste. Therefore safe strategies should be developed in order to collect and degrade the micro-pollutants using appropriate treatment ...

BruxAir. Short-term health effects of air pollution in the Brussels Capital Region 2004-2011: an epidemiological time series approach.

spectrum from mortality via hospital admissions to sub-clinical effects. Adverse health effects occur both as a result from short term exposure (on the order of days) and from sustained exposure (multiple ...

Simulation enhanced distributed lag models for mortality displacement.

improved performance over the singular estimate from a regular DLM. SEDLM entry estimates have negligible bias and their variance is reduced. The exit estimates are unbiased and their variance is one order ...

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