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Food consumption Survey 2022-2023- Estimation of food and supplement consumption and nutrient intake in the Belgian population
food-based dietary guidelines, and how nutrient intake was compared to dietary reference values to evaluate adequacy and possible excess of nutrient intake. Energy intake was specifically evaluated for ...
Food consumption survey 2022-2023: Evaluation of macro- and micronutrient intake in the Belgian population
This fourth summary report presents key findings on the nutrient intake in the population in Belgium and the adherence of nutrient intake to dietary reference values. It includes results on the habitual ...
Mass Spectrometric Fingerprinting to Detect Fraud and Herbal Adulteration in Plant Food Supplements
plants in plant mixtures is sparsely researched. This paper aims to check its value for herbal adulteration concerning plants with slimming as an indication. Moreover, it is among the first to exploit the ...
BSFM 2024- Reported food-borne outbreaks in Belgium, 2023
Microbiology (BSFM), Brussels, Belgium (2024) Keywords: foodborne outbreak foodborne outbreak investigation Abstract: Introduction Sciensano, which harbors the National Reference Laboratory for Food-borne ...
A validation methodology for size and shape measurement of nanoplastics by transmission electron microscopy
with respect to the reference value. Since the mode of the distribution is closer to the reference value of 60 nm, a difference in analysis algorithm e.g. leading to exclusion of a fraction of the ...
10 years of organizing L. monocytogenes enumeration proficiency testing in food matrices at the Belgian national reference laboratory.
Sciensano as national reference laboratory (NRL) for L. monocytogenes. One of the NRL ’s task is to organize proficiency tests (PT) for official laboratories and inform the competent authority about the ...
Analyzing the airborne birch and grass pollen monitoring network in Belgium
Belgium. The interpolated values were compared to a reference dataset containing spatio-temporal distributions of daily surface airborne birch and grass pollen levels from the SILAM model (System for ...
Estimating the Uncertainty in Airborne Birch Pollen Modelling
birch pollen levels near the surface in Belgium is substantially high, with CV % values ranging between ~15% and ~35%. The parameters indicating the start and end of the season, however, are at least ...
Holography-based aerobiological monitoring: a 2-year intercomparison campaign versus the standard Hirst method in Brussels, Belgium
concentrations of 13 pollen taxa measured by the Swisens Poleno Jupiter were compared to the measurements of the Hirst method. The highest intraseasonal correlation values between both methods were found for ...
The search for the best airborne pollen monitoring locations
Here we explore the network quality (i) and network coverage (ii) of the current five pollen monitoring stations in Belgium. As reference dataset we use the spatio-temporal distributions of daily surface ...