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Development of a reliable UHPLC-MS/MS method for simultaneous determination of zearalenone and zearalenone-14-glucoside in various feed products
in water as the loading solution, 50% methanol in water as the washing solvent, and 5 ml of methanol as the elution solvent yielded the optimal purification efficiencies. The established method was ...
ESCAIDE 2022: Translating the COVID-19 epidemiological situation into policies and measures: the Belgian experience
recommended measures. Methods A comprehensive evaluation of the epidemiological situation was performed on a weekly basis using basic (cases, hospitalisations, testing, positivity rates, …) and supporting (waste water ...
Pesticide Use in Market Gardening and Perceived Risk of Consumers Exposed to Pesticide Residues
that all consumers washed their vegetables before consumption, but more than half of the respondents (54%) wash their vegetables for less than a minute (simply passing them under running water). In the ...
Development, Validation and Application of a Targeted LC-MS Method for Quantification of Microcystins and Nodularin: Towards a Better Characterization of Drinking Water
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Wannes Van Hassel; Bart Huybrechts; Julien Masquelier; Annick Wilmotte; Mirjana Andjelkovic Source: Water, Volume 14, Issue 8 (2022) ...
Multicentre study on the reproducibility of MALDI-TOF MS for nontuberculous mycobacteria identification.
the identification of NTM in 15 laboratories in 9 European countries. A total of 98 NTM clinical isolates were grown on Löwenstein-Jensen. Biomass was collected in tubes with water and ethanol, ...
A Summer of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Belgian Waterbodies: Microcystin Quantification and Molecular Characterizations
different protocols and is restricted to some selected recreational ponds and lakes. Therefore, a global assessment based on the comparison of existing datasets is not possible. For this study, 79 water ...
Preliminary evaluation of different methods to detect and quantify Taenia eggs in sludge and water samples: A spiking experiment to assess recovery efficiency
Publication Type: Peer reviewed scientific article Authors: Sophie De Bock; Inge Van Damme; Ganna Saelens; Zeng, Hang; Sandra Vangeenberghe; Gabriël, Sarah Source: Food and Waterborne Parasitology, Volume 28 (2022) Health Topics: Health and disease monit ...
Cost-effectiveness analysis of a school- and community-based intervention to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent type 2 diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe: the Feel4Diabetes-study.
water consumption and physical activity led to a modest gain in quality adjusted life years (QALY s) at a low intervention cost and budget impact. Medical cost savings due to avoided illness could only be ...
Salmonella prevalence and persistence in industrialized poultry slaughterhouses.
Samples from the slaughter and cutting line after cleaning and disinfection were collected, as well as neck skin samples and thighs during slaughter of the first flock. In total, 680 swab and water samples ...
Identification of the Source for Contamination of Carcasses in a Large Pig Slaughterhouse.
up to 0.01 mL of the recycled water collected from the dehairing machine. Genotyping of isolates showed that similar pulsotypes were present in the oral cavity and recycled water. Based on these ...