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Processed Food Consumption and Sleep Quality in School-Aged Children: Insights ...

Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the association between processed food consumption and sleep quality among school-aged children. Methods: Our sample consisted of 137 children, with 52.6% being girls with a mean age of 7.9 +/- 1.2 years. Moreover, 40.2% of children had overweight and 35.9% had experienced sleep problems. Dietary intake was evaluated using two non-consecutive 24 h recal...

Gross moto skills, cognitive and socioemotional development, and dietary divers...

HBM4EU Chromates Study - Genotoxicity and Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in Worker...

A study was conducted within the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) to characterize occupational exposure to Cr(VI). Herein we present the results of biomarkers of genotoxicity and oxidative stress, including micronucleus analysis in lymphocytes and reticulocytes, the comet assay in whole blood, and malondialdehyde and 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine in urine. Workers from several Cr(VI)-related industria...

Exposure assessment of total DON in urine of Portuguese adult population under ...

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of fungi that can be found in food commodities. Exposure to mycotoxins has been associated with several adverse health effects, including hepatotoxicity. nephrotoxicity, immunotoxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity.As such, from a public health perspective it is important to monitor and to assess the risk associated to mycotoxins’ exposure. In the scope of the European H...

Mycotoxins under the Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU): shedding light on...

The Human Biomonitoring Initiative HBM4EU (https://www.hbm4eu.eu/the-project/) is a joint effort of 30 countries and the European Environment Agency under the Horizon 2020 funding programme of the European Commission. The project started in 2017 and has a duration of five years. The goal of HBM4EU is to generate evidence on the current exposure of European citizens to chemicals and on their possible health effe...

Applicability of the harmonized in vitro digestion method to titanium dioxide n...

Titanium dioxide nanomaterials (TiO2 NMs) have a high potential for ingestion by human populations, due to their increasing use as food additives, inclusion in dietary supplements and food packaging materials. Whether this oral exposure may lead to adverse local or systemic outcomes, has been the subject of research. In vitro studies have generated contradictory results, possibly due to differences in the physi...

earlyMYCO project - Early-life exposure to mycotoxins: a neglected issue?

Recent studies under MYCOMIX project reported that Portuguese children until 3 years old are exposed to multiple mycotoxins through food consumption, constituting a potential health threat. Aflatoxins (carcinogenic toxins) represented the main risk contributors and deoxynivalenol (a non-carcinogenic toxin associated with immunological and gastrointestinal toxic effects) showed the highest daily intake of the st...

Mycotoxins under the human biomonitoring initiative (HBM4EU): challenges in the...

The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative HBM4EU (https://www.hbm4eu.eu/the project/) is a joint effort of 28 countries and the European Environment Agency under the Horizon 2020 funding programme of the European Commission. Since 2017, and with a project duration of 5 years, HBM4EU is generating evidence of the current exposure of European citizens to chemicals and the possible health effects in order to ass...

Avaliação toxicológica de contaminantes químicos em alimentos

Challenges in risk assessment of multiple mycotoxins in food

Most fungi are able to produce several mycotoxins simultaneously and, consequently, to contaminate a wide variety of foodstuffs. Therefore, the risk of human co-exposure to multiple mycotoxins is real, raising a growing concern about their potential impact on human health. Besides, government and industry regulations are usually based on individual toxicities, and do not take into account the complex dynamics a...