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Characterisation and Hazard identification of substandard and Falsified Antimicrobial Drugs. The CantiBio project 2016-2020
that all seized samples contained the API they claimed and that no other antimicrobial drugs could be discovered. Though, half of the samples were underdosed, resulting in a potentially lower efficacy ...
Urine concentrations of Arsenic and its species in adolescents from Wallonia (Belgium).
questionnaires on socio-demographic characteristics, diet, certain risk factors for chronic diseases, intake of food supplements, general environment, housing and life behaviours such as smoking. All participants ...
The overweight epidemic increasingly hits children of lower educated parents in Belgium
children. Health promotion on nutrition and physical activity at school has the potential to reach children from all socioeconomic backgrounds, making it an important means of tackling health inequalities. ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
following ISO 11290 – 1 and – 2. A human strain was collected at the NRC Listeria. All isolated strains underwent serotyping for further characterisation at the NRC Listeria, and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) ...
Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
various living organisms or the cultivation parameters. Moreover, the current methods require a subsequent but not always successful isolation. In part due to these two drawbacks, not all outbreaks can be ...
Multidimensional chromatographic fingerprinting combined with chemometrics for the identification of regulated plants in suspicious plant food supplements
each plant. For both binary modelling and multiclass modelling, a ccr% above 85% for external test set validation was observed for all the plants. As a proof of concept, 12 weight-loss PFS, seized by ...
Validation of an animal-free analytical method for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in human vaccines
assays are suitable for all vaccines tested, although the most appropriate technique of endotoxins quantification depends on the type of vaccine. Health Topics: Effectiveness and safety of vaccines, ...
Determination of vaccine bacterial endotoxins content by the rFC method
endotoxin in bacterial vaccines. The limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) and the recombinant factor C (rFC) assays are suitable for all vaccines tested. The rFC method has been implemented at Sciensano for batch ...
Regulatory expectations on the use of vaccine reference standards for maintaining product quality.
Opportunities, IABS, Issue IABS, Ottawa, Canada (2023) Abstract: Introduction – The manufacture of vaccines often involves complex processes requiring a strict control strategy at all steps. The Final Drug product ...
A new data collection system for Epilabo: the network of sentinel laboratories
laboratory test results and the impact of different counter measures in the population by linking datasets. From the summer of 2023 onwards we aim a gradual onboarding of CML to achieve a coverage in all ...