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Interim analysis of COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death using electronic health records in six European countries
This report presents pooled COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) estimates for the first, second and third booster doses, against hospitalisation due to COVID-19 and COVID-19 related deaths in resident ...
Occurrence of microcystin congeners in surface waters and food in Belgium as a source of exposure to humans
cyanotoxins in food, drinking and recreational water are available in Belgium. Among the main reasons for this data shortage is a lack of publicly sourced, reliable methods to analyze cyanotoxins in food and ...
Development of strain-level shotgun metagenomics approaches to detect and characterize microbiological contaminants in the context of food safety
contaminant present in the sample at once, possibly also at the SNP level. At the time this study started, shotgun metagenomics for the study of food contaminants was in its infancy. Moreover, strain-level ...
Surveillance of COVID-19 mortality in Belgium, epidemiology and methodology during 1st and 2nd wave (March 2020- 14 February 2021)
Coronavirus COVID-19 mortality Surveillance Abstract: This report provides epidemiological figures about the characteristics of COVID-19 deaths during the first wave (1 March 2020 until 21 June 2020), the inter ...
Excess mortality during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in Belgium
distancing, etc.) and non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g., hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, etc.), it is possible that the excess mortality during this period would have been greater. Mortality ...
PT-2020-NRL-TE-FASFC “Determination of As, Cd, Pb and Hg in food supplements"
Trace Elements in Food and Feed (NRL- TE). One of its core tasks is to organise proficiency tests (PT s) among laboratories appointed by the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain. This report ...
Bepaling van spoorelementen in diverse matrices met spectrometische technieken.
very little concentration in organisms and environment. Trace elements can be divided in two categories, the essential trace elements, which are necessary in correct concentrations for the proper ...
European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net Belgium)- Report 2017 (Data up to and including 2016)
and 1.7% of E. faecium isolates tested resistant to this antibiotic. Resistance to linezolid remained almost non-existent in both Enterococci, with none of the E. faecalis, and 0.5% of E. faecium ...
Dietary exposure to pyrrolizidine alkaloids in young children and adults from the Belgian population (PASFOOD)
PA s/ PANO s occurrence data were compared to the one published by EFSA. Retail honeys were more contaminated than Belgian samples, and high levels of europine were detected for the first time in this ...
Detection and risk evaluation of counterfeit medicines based on physico-chemical properties: the fingerprint and chemometrics approach
market. Consequently, analytical techniques able to detect these kind of products and distinguish them from genuine medicines are indispensable. Part II of this dissertation describes all research performed ...