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Project

Assessment of mycotoxin exposure in the Belgian population using biomarkers
Code
01DI0514
Duration
01 October 2014 → 31 July 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Other chemical sciences
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Public health care
    • Public health sciences
    • Public health services
    • Nutrition and dietetics
    • Biomarker discovery and evaluation
    • Drug discovery and development
    • Medicinal products
    • Pharmaceutics
    • Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
    • Pharmacology
    • Pharmacotherapy
    • Toxicology and toxinology
    • Other pharmaceutical sciences
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Agricultural animal production
    • Food sciences and (bio)technology
Keywords
biomarkers of exposure urine Belgium mycotoxins
 
Project description
 

This project will perform an exposure assessment for

mycotoxins in Belgium by direct measurements of biomarkers of exposure in morning urine of a representative part of the Belgian population using a validated LC-MS/MS method. Correlations between mycotoxin concentrations measured and the foods consumption reported of both the day before the urine collection and the previous month, will be estimated.