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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Aflatoxin B1 in nixtamalized maize in Mexico; occurrence and accompanying risk assessment
Toxicology Reports 6 (2019). - ISSN 2214-7500 - p. 1135 - 1142.
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Integrating physiologically based kinetic (PBK) and Monte Carlo modelling to predict inter-individual and inter-ethnic variation in bioactivation and liver toxicity of lasiocarpine
Archives of Toxicology 93 (2019)10. - ISSN 0340-5761 - p. 2943 - 2960.
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Excreta emissions in progeny of low and high enteric methane yield selection line sheep fed pasture of different qualities
Animal Feed Science and Technology 257 (2019). - ISSN 0377-8401