Toxicology
The research programme of Toxicology covers food toxicology and environmental toxicology. It concentrates on gaining insight in the mechanisms via which toxic compounds can induce adverse effects on the health of humans and other environmental organisms, either directly via food or indirectly via different exposure pathways related to environmental pollution
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Our courses
Toxicology provides a number of lecture series and practical courses for Environmental Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, Food Safety and Food Technology students. In addition Biology and Molecular Sciences students often attend Toxicology courses.
Latest publications
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Facilitated delignification in CAD deficient transgenic poplar studied by confocal Raman spectroscopy imaging
Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 206 (2019). - ISSN 1386-1425 - p. 177 - 184.
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Special issue on food borne botanical genotoxic carcinogens
Food and Chemical Toxicology 120 (2018). - ISSN 0278-6915 - p. 708 - 708.
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The safety evaluation of food flavouring substances : the role of metabolic studies
Toxicology Research 7 (2018)4. - ISSN 2045-452X - p. 618 - 646.