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EuroMix
Start date: May 15, 2015, End date: May 14, 2019,
Euromix aim to develop an experimentally verified, tiered strategy for the risk assessment of mixtures of multiple chemicals derived from multiple sources across different life stages. The project takes account of the gender dimension and balances the risk of chemicals present in foods against the benefits of those foods.Important concepts for this new strategy are prioritisation criteria for chem ...
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Metrics, Models and Foresight for European Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (SUSFANS)
Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,
Strengthening food and nutrition security (FNS) in the EU requires a move towards a diet that supports sustainable food consumption and production. To gauge the policy reforms needed for this major societal challenge, the SUSFANS-consortium will identify how food production and nutritional health in the EU can be aligned. The multidisciplinary research agenda of SUSFANS will build the conceptual f ...
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Total Diet Study Exposure (TDSEXPOSURE)
Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,
Total Diet Studies (TDS) allow getting information on real dietary exposure to food contaminants consumption (heavy metals, mycotoxins, POPs...) and estimating chronic exposure to pesticide residues in food and food additives intake. TDS consider total exposure from whole diets and are based on food contamination as consumed rather than contamination from raw commodities, thus ensuring a realistic ...
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Optimizing delivery of health care interventions (ODHIN)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,
ODHIN is a Europe wide project involving research institutions from nine European countries that will help to optimize the delivery of health care interventions by understanding how better to translate the results of clinical research into every day practice. ODHIN will use the implementation of identification and brief intervention (IBI) programmes for hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption (H ...
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Aggregate and Cumulative Risk Of Pesticides: an On-Line Integrated Strategy (ACROPOLIS)
Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2013,
EU Directive 396/2005 states that methods are needed to account for cumulative and aggregate exposure in pesticides regulation . 27% of food samples had multiple residues in the 2006 EU residue monitoring report. The Eurobarometer shows pesticides are one of the principal worries of EU consumers regarding food safety. Industry needs clear criteria to decide on large investments in product developm ...
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European coordination action on human biomonitoring (COPHES)
Start date: Dec 1, 2009, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
This proposal has been elaborated by a consortium of 35 partners coming from 27 European countries and including scientists, government institutions and authorities, NGOs and industry. The main goal is to develop a coherent approach to HBM in Europe as requested by ACTION 3 of the EU Environment and Health Action Plan through coordination of ongoing and planned HBM activities. The project will exp ...
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Tackling the Gradient: Applying Public Health Policies to Effectively Reduce Health Inequalities amongst Families and Children (GRADIENT)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,
"Health inequalities are currently regarded as one of the most important public health challenges in the EU. There is however not sufficient knowledge of what actions are effective to reduce the gradient in health inequalities. 'Tackling the Gradient' aims to address this, to ensure that political momentum is maintained and that operational strategies can be developed to make progress on this issu ...
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Design of a vaccine to immunize neonates against GBS infections through a durable maternal immune response (DEVANI)
Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,
"Direct vaccination cannot prevent diseases that affect neonates in the first days of life. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the major cause of neonatal septicemia and meningitis affecting up to one in every thousand live births. Over 80% of cases occur in the first 7 days after birth and the remaining 20% of disease occurs between 8-90 days after birth. Studies carried out in the USA indicate that ...
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The project focuses on innovation and transfer of products of the pilot project "Improvement of the Quality, Effectiveness and Efficiency of Healthcare Services" (SK/03/B/F/PP-177014). The primary actions foreseen by the new projects are: - Collaborative Quality Function Deployment of the Virtual HealthCare Quality Centre; - utilisation of new software for the existing content management portal; - ...
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