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Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
based on the sequencing of all genetic material of the sample without isolation has become available some years ago, e.g. shotgun metagenomics. It allows to get a screenshot of every microbiological ...
Regulatory safety assessment of nanoparticles for the food chain in Europe
Keywords: Integrated approaches to testing and assessment (IATA) nanomaterial particulate material Physicochemical characterisation Risk Assessment Toxicity testing Abstract: Background The risk assessment of ...
Evaluating methodological approaches to assess the severity of infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants: scoping review and applications on Belgian COVID-19 data.
Source: BMC Infect Dis, Volume 22, Issue 1 (2022) Keywords: Belgium COVID-19 Humans intensive care units SARS-CoV-2 Abstract: BACKGROUND: Differences in the genetic material of severe acute respiratory ...
In vitro 50 Hz magnetic field long-term exposure: Cytogenetic tests on human lymphoblastoid TK6 cells and validation of the test environment
effects of long-term exposure to ELF-(E) MF s on the genetic material and the impact of long-term pre-exposure to ELF-(E) MF s on the sensitivity of cells to the damage induced by known mutagens are needed. ...
Investigation of migrating substances from textile used as food contact material
contact materials Market survey. Migration SCREENING Textile/Fabric Abstract: With the polarized debate about paper and board packaging materials, food contact materials (FCM) made from fabrics/textiles has ...
Biosafety in microbiology teaching laboratories
educational institutions during teaching laboratories using microorganisms. Teaching laboratories are somehow particular cases as they implicate dense groups of students which generally have a limited ...
Performance of in silico models for mutagenicity prediction of food contact materials
Toxicological Sciences, Volume 163, Issue 2 (2018) Keywords: (Q)SAR food contact materials In silico mutagenicity VALIDATION Abstract: In silico methodologies, such as (quantitative) structure-activity ...
Challenges in the size analysis of a silica nanoparticle mixture as candidate certified reference material.
Temmerman; Jan Mast; Junjie, Liu; Babick, Frank; Cölfen, Helmut; Emons, Hendrik Source: J Nanopart Res, Volume 18, p.171 (2016) Abstract: A new certified reference material for quality control of nanoparticle ...
Scientific Statement on Presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on seafood
Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the EFSA Panel for Contaminants in the Food Chain was asked to deliver a statement on the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in food, with particular focus on ...
VALGENT: A protocol for clinical validation of human papillomavirus assays.
comparison and validation of HPV assays in general and HPV genotyping tests in particular according to clinically relevant outcomes and for clinical applications endorsed by scientific evidence. STUDY DESIGN: ...