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Metagenomics-based tracing of genetically modified microorganism contaminations in commercial fermentation products
* Source: Food Chemistry: Molecular Sciences, Volume 10 (2025) Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance food enzyme phylogenomics Strain-level deconvolution Abstract: Genetically modified microorganisms (GMM) are ...
Implementation of METROFOOD services in the Belgium node
Forum on Research Infrastructures) research infrastructure (RI), METROFOOD- RI, an European distributed- RI aimed at promoting scientific excellence via high-level metrological services in food and ...
Modelling the cost differential between current and healthy diets according to household education level in Belgium.
estimate the cost differential between current and healthy diets, overall and by household education level. Data from the 2014-2015 and food prices from the 2014 were linked. The was used to model healthy, ...
FT-IR spectroscopy as a rapid method for Salmonella spp. typing
products are most often implicated, although it can contaminate many food products. Fourier transform (FT- IR) spectroscopy allows for a rapid and cost-effective typing method of this bacterium at the ...
Antimicrobial resistance in ESBL and indicator E. coli, Campylobacter spp.,Salmonella spp., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Enterococcus faecalis and faecium isolated from food and food-producing animals (primary production) in 2023
resistance levels are lower in C. jejuni than in C. coli. In 2023, Salmonella spp. recovered from food matrices have been analysed by whole genome sequencing (WGS). The highest levels of predicted ...
Strain-level characterization without culture enrichment? Easing and accelerating outbreak investigation using shotgun metagenomics facilitated with nanopore adaptive sampling
samples during an outbreak investigation requires the samples to be enriched in order to reach detectable levels. However, a bias can occur during the enrichment of the food due to competition between the ...
A multi-country One Health foodborne outbreak simulation exercise: cross-sectoral cooperation, data sharing and communication.
a sequence of scripts covering the different stages of a outbreak investigation at a national level, involving both the human food chain and the raw pet feed industry. RESULTS: A total of 255 participants from ...
Hepatitis E virus in pork meat products and exposure assessment in Belgium.
Thomas; Steven Van Gucht Source: Int J Food Microbiol, Volume 397 (2023) Abstract: Zoonotic hepatitis E virus (HEV) genotype 3 infections are the predominant cause of acute viral hepatitis in Europe, mostly ...
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 ...
Comparison of 6 DNA extraction methods for isolation of high yield of high molecular weight DNA suitable for shotgun metagenomics Nanopore sequencing to detect bacteriaAbstractBackgroundResultsConclusion
level, were specifically designed for this application and need to be assessed. Results: In this study, with different bacterial cocktail mixes, analyzed as pure or spiked in a synthetic fecal matrix, we ...