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A portal created by the Communication and Dissemination Office aiming to raise public awareness on scientific issues of relevance to the NewGenersis project.
In this section, documents of basic relevance to the scientific mission of NewGeneris are highlighted, as well as recent scientific advances in the area. Additional useful information can be found on the Publications section of this website, where relevant publications of NewGeneris partners are presented.
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European Commission
RTD Food, Health and Well-being Newsletter
Issue: July 2010
Find out the latest information on forthcoming events organised within research projects in the food area supported by the European Commission.
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NewGeneris at the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
Parma, 10-12 March 2010
NewGeneris project was presented in the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health "Protecting children's health in a changing environment" that took place in Parma, on 10-12 March 2010.
Prof. Manolis Kogevinas (National School of Public Health Greece and CREAL, Spain) presented "The environmental causes of childhood cancer" during the Symposium "Children's health and the environment: How does current European research respond to public health priorities". At the parallel workshop "How Human Biomonitoring supports Environment & Health policy-European feasibility study on mothers and children", Dr Maria Botsivali (National Hellenic Research Foundation) presented an overview of both NewGeneris and ECNIS projects on "Trends in biomarkers research and their potential for biomonitoring strategies".
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Presentation by Prof. Manolis Kogevinas
Presentation by Dr Maria Botsivali
Conference Website
Parma Declaration on Environment and health
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Overview of acrylamide levels in 2008
EFSA has published a summary of acrylamide levels in different types of food sampled in 2008. The report is based on over 3,400 results provided by 22 European Union Member States and Norway.
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.jpg) HENVINET: Cause-Effect Diagrams
Participate in Cause-Effect Diagrams for cancer, asthma, etc.
More: http://www.henvinet.eu/Tools/CauseEffectDiagrams/tabid/3028/Default.aspx
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Ethics and Human Biomonitoring
NewGeneris considers Ethics a very important issue for epidemiological studies. A lot of relevant information can be found in the supplement "Ethics and communications in human biomonitoring: European perspectives" of the Environmental Health Journal (June 2008).
This supplement includes scientific articles on human biomonitoring and ethical issues coming from a Workshop organized by ESBIO Project, on Ethics and Communication, which was held in Copenhagen (March 2008).
The full content of the supplement with these articles can be found at: http://www.ehjournal.net/supplements/7/S1.
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Food
Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain
28 June 2008
In this Report the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM Panel) reviewed the available data on occurrence and toxicity of PAHs.
Special attention was paid to those eight carcinogenic and genotoxic PAHs that were measured in the coal tar mixtures used in the carcinogenicity studies, which provided the basis of the SCF and JECFA risk assessments.
In total, results from 9714 PAH analyses in 33 food categories/subcategories were evaluated. The median dietary exposure across European countries was calculated both for mean and high dietary consumers.
The CONTAM Panel based on the currently available data relating to occurrence and toxicity, concluded that benzo[a]pyrene is not a suitable indicator for the occurrence of PAHs in food and that PAH4 and PAH8 are the most suitable indicators for the case, with PAH8 not providing much added value compared to PAH4.
More information at www.efsa.europa.eu
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WHO on Children's Health and the Environment (CEH)
WHO has a special interest in Children’s environmental health, manifested by a large number of activities.
To read the relevant informative material visit WHO’s website, http://www.who.int/ceh, which provides access to a large number of publications, statistics, indicators, and fact sheets on children's environmental health. Among them is the issue of Pediatric Environmental History (PEH) with its “GREEN PAGE”.
Relevant information is provided by the attached pdf files below:
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Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia(ALL) and maternal nutrition
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Recent research has established that the disease can originate in utero, and thus maternal diet may be an important risk factor for ALL. Read more
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 Childhood Asthma and Diet
What is the role of nutrition in the developement of childhood asthma? Could diet during fetal life and early childhood exert an influence on the risk of developement of asthma and atopic diseases (allergies) during childhood and possibly later in life? Learn more
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Ethics in Studies on Children and Environmental Health
Several ethical issues arise in connection with research on children's health and the environment. Learn more
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The origin of the word Toxicology : A commentary
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.bmp) New 2007 Environmental Health Criteria 237 of WHO/IPCS on
"Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated
with Exposure to Chemicals"
A new volume (No. 237 / 2007) of WHO/IPCS Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) Series has been published under the title "Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children Associated with Exposure to Chemicals."
The central focus of this volume is on the "child" (developing embryo, fetus, infant etc.). It addresses the difficult task of integrating all what is known about both exposure information, toxicity data, and health outcome at different life stages, which is especially challenging when data are limited for particular life stages (e.g., during pregnancy).
The book can be found at: http://www.who.int/ipcs/en
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 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Report of the Scientific Committee on Food on the "Revision of Essential Requirements of Infant Formulae and Follow-on Formulae"
The Report is relevant to infant food an issue of interest for NewGeneris project
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“Childhood Cancer: Rising to the challenge” is a Report concerning childhood cancer, published in 2006 by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in the framework of the World Cancer Campaign. Chapters of this Report provide information about the burden of childhood tumours worldwide, review the achievements of the UICC-initiated project “My child matters” and discuss psychological aspects of childhood cancer. The Report is available at http://www.uicc.org/fileadmin/wcd/ccreport.pdf
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Burden of disease attributable to selected environmental factors and injuries among Europe's children and adolescents. Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 8
World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome, Protection of the Human Environment, Geneva, 2004.
Authors: Francesca Valent, D’Anna Little, Giorgio Tamburlini, Fabio Barbone
A report released by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, European Centre for Environment and Health, for the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest, 23-25 June 2004, providing estimates of the disease burden from selected environmental risks and injuries borne by children and adolescents in Europe. This report constitutes the first assessment of the impact of the environment on child health in the European Region. Available on line at http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/9241591900/en/index.html
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The incidence of childhoon cancer in Europe: Geographic variation and recent time-trends. A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cancer, Septenber 2006.
A recent Special Issue of the European Journal of Cancer (http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/EJC), titled "Cancer in Children and Adolescents in Europe" (Eur. J. Cancer 42 (2006), 1913-2190) is devoted to childhood and adolescent cancer in Europe, with articles reviewing incidence and survival data, their geographic distribution and changes over time in recent years.
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 Children's Health and the Environment in North America: A First Report on Available Indicators and Measures
A Report (2006) prepared by the Secretariat - Commission for Environmental Cooperation, in collaboration with the International Joint Commission - Health Professionals Task Force, the Pan-American Health Organisation, The World Health Organisation and the Governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
As we learn more about the unique valnuerabilities and susceptibilities of children to environmental risks, there is an increasing call for data and information that can be used to improve public policy in this area. This document is the first integrated, regional Report providing indicators for a series of children's health and environmental issues.
Available on line at http://www.cec.org/files/pdf/pollutants/ceh-indicators-fin-en.pdf
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 Enviornmental Threats to Children: Understanding the risks, enabling prevention
Author: Dr. David McKeown, Toronto Medical Officer of Health; published by Toronto Public Health, Environmental Protection Office
This Report (2005) represents an important milestone in Toronto Public Health's long-term commitment to better understanding how the city's natural and built environment affects the health of its children. Three major topics are covered: the vulnuerability of children, health outcomes of concern and exposures and sources and settings.
Available on line at http://www.toronto.ca/health/hphe/pdf/tr_environmental_threats_all.pdf
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Trends in Environmentally Related Childhood Illnesses
T.J. Woodruff, D.A. Axelrad, A.D. Kyle, O.Nweke, G.G. Miller and B.J. Hurley, Pediatrics 113 (2004) 1133-1140
A study reporting the trends, in the US, in the incidence of three groups of important childhood diseases or disorders that seem to be caused or exacerbated, at least in part, by exposure to environmental agents - asthma, childhood cancers and neurodevelopmental disorders, covering the period 1974-2000.
The study is available at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/113/4/S1/1133
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 Children’s health and environment: A review of evidence
A joint report from the European Environment Agency and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. Edited by: Giorgio Tamburlini, Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, Roberto Bertollini;
WHO Regional Office for Europe & European Environment Agency, 2002
This publication provides an overview of the available evidence of the relationship between the physical environment and children's health. It identifies both research needs and policy priorities to protect children's health from environmental hazards. The report was prepared by the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Rome Operational Division, with support from the European Environment Agency. It is based on background papers prepared for the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, held in London in 1999.
Available on line at
http://reports.eea.europa.eu/environmental_issue_report_2002_29/en/eip_29.pdf
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