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
Our research
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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FEMA GRAS assessment of natural flavor complexes : Citrus-derived flavoring ingredients
Food and Chemical Toxicology 124 (2019). - ISSN 0278-6915 - p. 192 - 218.
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Analysis of metabolome changes in the bile acid pool in feces and plasma of antibiotic-treated rats
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 363 (2019). - ISSN 0041-008X - p. 79 - 87.
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Hatching failure and accumulation of organic pollutants through the terrestrial food web of a declining songbird in Western Europe
Science of the Total Environment 650 (2019). - ISSN 0048-9697 - p. 1547 - 1553.