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Tobacco, Sunflower and High Biomass SRC Clones Show Potential for Trace Metal Phytoextraction on a Moderately Contaminated Field Site in Belgium.
species, were evaluated during consecutive years. Biomass production and metal accumulation of pre-selected tobacco somaclonal variants (L.) and pre-selected sunflower mutants (L.) were investigated for two ...
Comparison of SNP-based subtyping workflows for bacterial isolates using WGS data, applied to Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium and serotype 1,4,[5],12:i:.
PLoS One, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2018) Keywords: bacterial phylogeny; food-borne; genes; NGS; WGS; computational biology/bioinformatics; disease outbreaks; outbreak; performance evaluation; pipeline; ...
Do current fortification and supplementation programs assure adequate intake of fat-soluble vitamins in Belgian infants, toddlers, pregnant women, and lactating women?
the neonate, and the young child. By means of an online self-administered frequency questionnaire, this study aimed to evaluate the intake of vitamins A, D, E, and K in Belgian infants (= 455), toddlers ...
Evaluation of the potential health risks of substances migrating from polycarbonate replacement baby bottles.
the potential migration risks associated with these alternative materials were investigated. First, all substances were evaluated for endocrine disruptive (ED) activity by using different existing lists ...
Ecotoxicological potential of antibiotic pollution-industrial wastewater: bioavailability, biomarkers, and occurrence in Mytilus galloprovincialis.
(PW), indicate a large pathological power revealed on the gills. On the other hand, genotoxicity of the studied effluent was evaluated using comet assay for quantification of DNA fragmentation in gill ...
Protocol of the Belgian food consumption survey 2014: objectives, design and methods.
consumption data are essential to evaluate and develop nutrition and food safety policies. The last national food consumption survey in Belgium took place in 2004 among the Belgian population aged 15 years and ...
Physical activity and sedentary behavior in Belgium (BNFCS2014): design, methods and expected outcomes.
sedentary behavior has been related with an increased risk for all-cause mortality. The accurate measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior is therefore vital to evaluate their health impact and ...
Evaluation of the migration of chemicals from baby bottles under standardised and duration testing conditions.
microwave, sterilisation and dishwasher, on the migration of different contaminants was evaluated by means of duration tests. These results were compared with a reference treatment (filling five times with ...
Biotech Rice: Current developments and future detection challenges in food and feed chain
processes and the elements composing their transgenic cassettes. From this work, the power and weakness of the standard detection system, notably used by the European enforcement laboratories, are evaluated ...
New trait-specific qualitative SYBR®Green qPCR methods to expand the panel of GMO screening methods used in the CoSYPS
Method acceptance parameters such as the sensitivity, specificity and repeatability were assessed as well as the robustness of the methods. Additionally, the reproducibility was evaluated by transferring ...