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Mycotoxin Exposure During the First 1000 Days of Life and Its Impact on Childre...
Alvito, P; Pereira-da-Silva, LThe first 1000 days of life are very sensitive to any event that alters health programming, and they represent a window for intervention to improve population health. Pregnant women, fetuses, and infants are particularly vulnerable to exposure to food contaminated with mycotoxins. This review aimed to gather data from the literature on mycotoxins exposure during intrauterine life and early childhood, and associ...
Are Data from Mycotoxins' Urinary Biomarkers and Food Surveys Linked? A Review ...
Martins, C; Assunção, R; Nunes, C; Torres, Duarte; Alvito, PMycotoxins are natural chemical contaminants of foods, posing several health risks to humans. Biomarkers-driven research has been used as a tool for a more accurate characterization of the internal exposure. Whether certain food items are predictors of exposure to mycotoxins constitutes an important aspect for the risk assessment of mycotoxins. Comprehensive human biomonitoring studies linked with food surveys ...
Risk-benefit assessment of cereal-based foods consumed by portuguese children a...
Assunção, R; Boué, G; Alvito, P; Brazão, R; Carmona, P; Carvalho, C; Correia, D; Fernandes, P; Lopes, C; Martins, C; Membré, JM; Monteiro, S; Nabais, PCereal-based foods, including breakfast (BC) and infant cereals (IC), are among the first solid foods introduced to infants. BC and IC are sources of macro and micronutrients that have bene-ficial effects on health, but can also be sources of harmful chemical and microbiological contaminants and nutrients that may lead to adverse health effects at high consumption levels. This study was performed under the Risk...
Food Consumption Data as a Tool to Estimate Exposure to Mycoestrogens
Martins, C; Torres, D; Lopes, C; Correia, D; Goios, AC; Assunção, R; Alvito, P; Vidal, A; de Boevre, M; de Saeger, S; Nunes, CZearalenone and alternariol are mycotoxins produced by Fusarium and Alternaria species, respectively, that present estrogenic activity and consequently are classified as endocrine disruptors. To estimate the exposure of the Portuguese population to these two mycotoxins at a national level, a modelling approach, based on data from 94 Portuguese volunteers, was developed considering as inputs: i) the food consump...
Food Consumption Data as a Tool to Estimate Exposure to Mycoestrogens
Martins, C; Torres, Duarte; Lopes, C; Correia, D; Goios, A.; Assuncao, R; Alvito, P; Vidal, A; De Boevre, M; De Saeger, S; Nunes, CZearalenone and alternariol are mycotoxins produced by Fusarium and Alternaria species, respectively, that present estrogenic activity and consequently are classified as endocrine disruptors. To estimate the exposure of the Portuguese population to these two mycotoxins at a national level, a modelling approach, based on data from 94 Portuguese volunteers, was developed considering as inputs: i) the food consump...
Burden of disease associated with dietary exposure to carcinogenic aflatoxins i...
Martins, C; Vidal, A; De Boevre, M; De Saeger, S; Nunes, C; Torres, Duarte; Goios, A; Lopes, C; Alvito, P; Assuncao, RHuman biomonitoring is an important tool to assess human exposure to chemicals, contributing to describe trends of exposure over time and to identify population groups that could be under risk. Aflatoxins are genotoxic and carcinogenic food contaminants causing hepatocellular carcinoma, the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. In Portugal, scarce data are available regarding exposure to aflatoxins an...
Burden of disease attributable to exposure to aflatoxins in Portugal using Huma...
Martins, C; Vidal, A; De Boevre, M; De Saeger, S; Nunes, C; Torres, Duarte; Goios, A; Lopes, C; Alvito, P; Assunção, R<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:sec> <jats:title /> <jats:p>Human biomonitoring (HBM) is recognized as an important tool to assess the Human exposure to chemicals, contributing to describe trends and patterns of exposure over time and to identify population groups that could be under risk. Natural chemicals as mycotoxins, fungi metabolites that produce toxic effects in humans, are important compounds th...
Exposure assessment of Portuguese population to multiple mycotoxins: The human ...
Martins, C; Vidal, A; De Boevre, M; De Saeger, S; Nunes, C; Torres, Duarte; Goios, A; Lopes, C; Assunção, R; Alvito, PMycotoxins constitute a relevant group of food contaminants with several associated health outcomes such as estrogenic, immunotoxic, nephrotoxic and teratogenic effects. Although scarce data are available in Portugal, human biomonitoring studies have been globally developed to assess the exposure to mycotoxins at individual level. In order to overcome this lack of data, the present study concerned the analysis ...
Risk assessment of Portuguese population to multiple mycotoxins: the human biom...
Martins, C; Vidal, A; De Saeger, S; Nunes, C; Torres, Duarte; Goios, A; Lopes, C; Assunção, R; Alvito, P; De Boevre, M<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:sec> <jats:title /> <jats:p>Mycotoxins constitute a relevant group of food contaminants with several associated health outcomes such as estrogenic, immunotoxic, nephrotoxic and teratogenic effects. Although scarce data are available in Portugal, human biomonitoring studies have been globally developed to assess the exposure to mycotoxins at individual level.</jats:p> <jat...
Building capacity in risk-benefit assessment of foods: Lessons learned from the...
Assuncao, R; Alvito, P; Brazao, R; Carmona, P; Fernandes, P; Jakobsen, LS; Lopes, C; Martins, C; Membre, JM; Monteiro, S; Nabais, P; Thomsen, STBackground: Human diet may present both risks and benefits to consumers' health. Risk-benefit assessment of foods (RBA) intends to estimate the overall health impact associated with exposure (or lack of exposure) to a particular food or food component. Scope and approach: "RiskBenefit4EU - Partnering to strengthen the risk-benefit assessment within EU using a holistic approach" (RB4EU) is a project funded by th...