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Breakfast Cereals Intended for Children: Opportunities for Reformulation and Po...
Santos, M; Matias, F; Rito, AI; Castanheira, I; Torres, Duarte; Loureiro, I; Assuncao, RReady-to-eat cereals (RTECs) have become a popular breakfast option claiming to provide important nutrients to children's diets, despite being a source of excess sugar and, therefore, a health concern. Thus, food reformulation constitutes an important public health strategy that could benefit from inputs provided by nutrient profiling. This study aimed to assess the adequacy of the RTECs for children available ...
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...
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...