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Cyanotoxins and Food Contamination in Developing Countries: Review of Their Types, Toxicity, Analysis, Occurrence and Mitigation Strategies
a real risk to the exposed population. Assessment of cyanotoxin contamination in foods from developing countries still requires further investigations by conducting more survey studies, especially the ...
Pesticide Use in Market Gardening and Perceived Risk of Consumers Exposed to Pesticide Residues
gardening to improve productivity and pest control. Pesticide residues could be persistent in vegetables and generate a potential health hazard for consumers. This study has been carried out in Tunisia to ...
Update of the risk assessment of hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDDs) in food
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM); Dieter Schrenk; Margherita Bignami; Laurent Bodin; James Kevin Chipman; Jesús del ...
Dietary exposure assessment and risk characterization of citrinin and ochratoxin A in Belgium
problem. To ensure public health, it is imperative to characterize the risks related to these toxins. The present study aims to conduct a dietary exposure assessment of citrinin (CIT) and ochratoxin A (OTA) ...
Retrospective survey of unauthorized genetically modified bacteria harbouring antimicrobial resistance genes in feed additive vitamin B2 commercialized in Belgium: Challenges and solutions
suspicious samples contaminated with additional unknown GM bacterial strains as well as potential health and environmental risks related to the unexpected presence of full-length AMR genes could be ...