“Food Safety: Toxicology from Farm to Fork”
BelTox Annual Scientific Meeting 2014
Thursday 4 December 2014: 9:00 – 17:30 hours
Thomas More Campus, Geel
Auditorium 1
Kleinhoefstraat 4, 2440 Geel
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Program
(To download the program, use the attachment at the bottom of this page)
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Morning Session-Chair: Wim Penning (BelTox) |
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9:00
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Welcome/Introduction Mark Martens (BelTox) |
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9:20
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Keynote lecture: Challenges in Food Safety in the EU Carmen Garau, Head of the Enforcement Unit, DG SANCO (EU Commission, Brussels) |
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10:00
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Toxicological Assessment of Pesticides for the Evaluation of Consumer Risk in the EU Philippe Castelain (WIV-ISP, Brussels Belgium) |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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11:00
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Current State of Knowledge of the Safety of Bisphenol A in Food Dieter Beyer (Bayer, Wuppertal, Germany) |
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11:30
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Risk Assessment of Food Contaminants: Dioxins, PCBs, Mycotoxins Frans Verstraete (EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium) |
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12:00
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BelTox General Assembly Miranda Cornet (BelTox) |
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12:15 |
Lunch and poster session |
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Afternoon Session – Chair: Arno Gutleb (BelTox)
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13:30 13:45 14:15 |
Young Scientist Competition: Dominique Lison (BelTox, UCL, Brussels) Transient Receptor Potential Channels in a Mouse Model of Isocyanate-Induced Airway Hyperresponsiveness Fien Devos (KULeuven) Elucidating Toxicological Mechanisms of Current Flame Retardants by Monitoring Molecular Processes using a Multiple Endpoint Bacterial Reporter Assay You are what you eat: Silica and Silver Nanoparticles in Food Affect the Gut Microbiota in Mice. In vitro Study toward the Endocrine Activity and the Genotoxic Potential of Migration Products from Plastic Baby Bottle |
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14:30
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Screening of Plasticisers for their Effects on the Developing Male Reproductive System Cliff Elcombe (CXR, Dundee, UK) |
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15:00 |
Coffee Break & Poster Session |
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15:30
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Evaluation and Re-evaluation of the Sweetener Aspartame: What did we learn? George E.N. Kass (EFSA, Italy) |
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16:00
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Chemical Food Safety of Aquaculture Product from South-East Asia Marie-Louise Scippo (University of Liège, Belgium) |
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16:30
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Scientific Approach for Recall of Foodstuffs Peter Hoet (FAVV/AFSCA, Brussels – KULeuven, Belgium) |
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17:00
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Closing remarks and prizes for best presentation/poster New president BelTox |
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Organizing Committee
Mark Martens, Willem Penning, Arno Gutleb, Henk Vrijhof, Marleen Hallam and Sonia Pulinckx