Novel tools for exposure assessment of food contaminants by saliva multiple biomarker monitoring
Important information
The novelty of SALIVA+ relies on building a new paradigm in food contaminants exposure assessment to: i) offer to regulatory agencies and scientific community a reliable and non-invasive tool capable of assessing with precision humans’ exposure to a wide range of dietary contaminants; ii) deliver a multiorgan in vitro model to predict salivary:plasma distribution for other contaminants. The successful outcomes of this project will open the door to a different approach of risk assessment offering non-invasive measurements of well-known and emerging contaminants that will facilitate and hopefully increase the number of HBM studies worldwide.
Total FCT: 249.721,32 €
REQUIMTE: 196.596,32 €
FFUP: 53.125,00 €
Task 1: Project coordination, management, and dissemination
Task 2: Data collection: saliva, blood and food questionnaires
Task 3: Development of reliable methods to identify/quantify food contaminants in saliva and blood
Task 4: Modeling external exposure (diet) from blood and saliva HBM approach
Task 5: Creation and optimization of an in vitro model that simulates absorption/liver metabolism and saliva transport
principal investigator
Isabel Maria Pinto Leite Viegas Oliveira Ferreira - PI
Olga Viegas - Co-PI
team members