1,333 search results for “Food Toxicology” in the Public website
-
The use of computational toxicology in hazard assessment of engineered nanomaterials
Assessing the risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) solely on the basis of experimental assays is time-consuming, resource intensive, and constrained by ethical considerations (such as the principles of the 3Rs of animal testing). The adoption of computational toxicology in this field is a high p…
-
Food Citizens? Collective Food procurement in European cities
Cristina Grasseni’s project
-
Food Citizenship? Collective Food Procurement in European Cities in "Food, food systems, and agriculture"
Grasseni's contribution to this special feature on food cultures, food systems, and agriculture in Europe builds upon her ongoing project Food citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale.
-
HARVEST: Plant foods in human evolution
The HARVEST project explores the dietary choices that our hominin ancestors and relatives made, by recovering information on what they consumed, and how factors like environmental variation, intrinsic biology, and development of food processing technologies could have influenced their decisions.
-
Food citizens?
The ERC project 'Food citizens?' is a comparative analysis of a growing phenomenon in Europe: collective food procurement, namely networks of people who organize direct food production, distribution, and consumption.
-
Heterogeneity in spores of food spoilage fungi
This project intends to provide the required knowledgebase for the design of novel mild intervention protocols to prevent fungal food spoilage.
-
Food and drink
Sustainably produced food reduces CO2 emissions during production and promotes the region’s economy. The University is working to increase the number of organic, fair trade, vegetarian and vegan products in its restaurants.
-
Food and drink
Nearly all the university buildings have cafés and restaurants and in the city there are plenty of places to eat or drink. These include regular or fast-food facilities at local supermarkets, food stalls, snack bars or restaurants of all types and nationalities.
- Urban agriculture and Food
-
Healthy food, healthy world
What does it mean to eat healthily and responsibly? This question is gaining a new urgency now that in many countries undernourishment is being overtaken by diseases of affluence, such as obesity, and we are also becoming more aware of the environmental impact of our eating habits. It’s time to take…
-
About the Food Citizens project
The project 'Food citizens?' examines the consequences and premises of collective food procurement in three European cities (Rotterdam, Turin, and Gdańsk).
-
Wasted: Exploring Food Citizenship as a Form of Urban Resilience. A case study of food waste perceptions and practices in The Hague.
How do different communities of residents in The Hague perceive and manage food waste in relation to citizenship (rights and responsibilities)?
-
Sustainability, Climate Change, and Food
By placing food at the centre of investigation, this Minor explores current-day debates on political, environmental, economic and cultural change at both the local and global levels.
-
Chemical Similarity: Structuring Risk and Hazard Assessment
At the moment, over 350.000 chemicals are registered worldwide for production and use. Their application, however, may harm human health and the environment.
-
About the Food Citizens? project team
Cristina Grasseni, Federico de Musso, Ola Gracjasz, Maria Vasile, Vincent Walstra and Marilena Poulopoulou are part of the 'Food citizens?' Research project.
-
Food. Rethinking global security. Earth's Future.
Today, humanity produces sufficient calories, in theory, to feed the 7.7 billion people on the planet: the amount of food produced per person on the planet has gone up more than 40% since the 1960s. Yet, ironically, the prevalence of undernourishment – which had been declining for decades – has started…
-
Non-food vending machine Van Steenis
Van Steenis, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Plexus
Plexus Student Centre, Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Snellius
Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Schouwburgstraat
Schouwburgstraat, Schouwburgstraat 2, 2511 VA, The Hague
-
Non-food vending machine Huygens/Oort
Huygens, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine University Library
University Library, Witte Singel 27, 2311 BG, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Lecture Hall
Lecture Hall, Einsteinweg 57, 2333 CC, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine KOG
Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Lipsius
Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Wijnhaven
Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP, The Hague
-
Fan ZhangScience
-
Food production and food procurement in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (2000-500 BC) (2000)
ASLU 7 - A.E. de Hingh
-
Colonial recipes: Food, modernity and Japanese rule in Korea
The major objective of the study is to ascertain how Japanese colonialism affected the manner in which food was produced, processed, prepared and consumed in the colony, and how new attitudes towards these practices were constructed.
-
Non-food vending machine Pieter de la Court
Pieter de la Court, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden
-
Non-food vending machine Anna van Buerenplein
Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, The Hague
-
Starchy foodways: surveying indigenous botanical foods during the advent of European encounters in the northern and circum-Caribbean
How do the starchy botanical foodways reflect upon previous archaeological understandings in the northern and circum-Caribbean?
-
Pharmacology based toxicity assessment: towards quantitative risk prediction in humans
Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua
-
Philipp KropfScience
-
Fruits of our labour: Work and organisation in the global food system
This is the first special issue of any organisation studies journal on food labour. Why is this a big deal? In this Introduction, we argue that the field should pay much more attention to the agri-food system and the work that goes into producing, distributing and consuming foodstuff. Food is such an…
-
Fires, Food and the Evolution of Human Detoxification Capabilities
A study by a Leiden-Wageningen group shows that present-day humans are biologically poorly equipped to deal with the toxins they are regularly exposed to in smoky environments: compared to earlier hominins, we modern humans are probably even worse off. The study appeared in Molecular Biology and Evolution.…
-
Van Marum Colloquium: CO2 Electrolysis Systems for Chemical and Food Production
Lecture
-
Imke BrunsScience
-
Surendra BalraadjsingScience
-
Heloysa Araújo SilvaScience
-
Christian TudoracheScience
-
Michael RichardsonScience
-
Going global to local: achieving agri-food sustainability from a spatially explicit input-output analysis perspective
The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.
-
From urban food organizations to food policies
Comparing gazes between Turin and other cities in the global north.
-
Giulia CallegaroScience
-
Archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subjects himself to wild food experiment
What did our distant ancestors eat and how did they prepare their food? For the length of a month, experimental archaeologist Diederik Pomstra subjects himself to a rigorous palaeodiet. He is vlogging about his experiences to reach a non-academic audience.
-
Vincent Delhomme discusses upcoming EU food labelling reforms
Front-of-pack nutrition labelling, origin labelling, regulation of voluntary green claims made by food business operators: the EU is currently looking into various reforms of the legal framework for food information to consumers. The goal: healthier and more sustainable diets.
-
Marije NiemeijerScience
-
Bas ter BraakScience
-
Skilling for sustainable food
Is Europe skilling for sustainable food?