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EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders, 2024
according to a coherent framework. To tackle this objective, the disease burden attributable to environmental stressors is estimated using comparative risk assessment (CRA). As this method determines the ...
Physical activity on prescription in Belgium: General Practitioners’ involvement
the current involvement of GP s and their use of PAP. Methods Firstly, a desk research and informal interviews with stakeholders were carried out to map existing initiatives and identify policies ...
BSFM 2024- Reported food-borne outbreaks in Belgium, 2023
outbreaks, collects and centralizes the information on food-borne outbreaks (FBO s) and assures the follow-up of the FBO s in Belgium. Materials and Methods A food-borne outbreak is defined as an incidence, ...
Comparing the sustainability of influenza-like illness monitoring in a questionnaire-based and a code-based data collection method in Belgian general practices: protocol and preliminary results
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Mélanie Nahimana; Nathalie Bossuyt; Floriane Rouvez; Sherihane Bensemmane; Robrecht De Schreye Source: EFPC 2024 Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 15-17 September 2024, European Forum ...
Validation of the measurement of Aluminium in food by ICP-OES after acid digestion
foodstuffs, it is necessary to accurately measure aluminium levels. In our laboratory, we have developed a method utilising inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP- OES) to analyse certain ...
Thirty years of epidemiological surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Belgian hospitals: are we able to keep on lowering the curve?
initiated in 1994. Initially, participation in this surveillance was voluntary, but became mandatory in 2006. Methods Data, aggregated at hospital level, are collected retrospectively in the following year by ...
BSFM 2023- L. monocytogenes in Plant-Based Foods: insights from of a recent foodborne outbreak linked to vegan alternative to cheese
Materials and Methods Food samples were collected by the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) and analysed at the National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for Foodborne outbreaks ...
EBoD-FL. Guidelines for mapping the environmental burden of disease in Flanders
according to a coherent framework. To tackle this objective, the disease burden attributable to environmental stressors is estimated using comparative risk assessment (CRA). As this method determines the ...
Discrepancies between validated GC‐FID and UHPLC‐DAD methods for the analysis of Δ‐9‐THC and CBD in dried hemp flowers
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Céline Duchateau; Cedric De Leersnijder; Sophia Barhdadi; Michael Canfyn; De Braekeleer, Kris; Eric Deconinck Source: Drug Testing and Analysis, Volume 14, Issue 10 (2022) Keywords: agricultural ...
Introduction of WGS in food microbiology: advantages and challenges
occasions in the last couple of years. Therefore, the implementation of WGS in the Belgian context needs some serious reflection. In the future, WGS will largely replace the various older typing methods in ...