Katherine Muñoz

TL;DR: Future interdisciplinary research should gain a deeper understanding of the incentives for farmers and public perception from both a psychological and economic perspective in order to develop new support strategies for the transition into a more environment-friendly food production.

TL;DR: A method that allows analysis of OTA and its detoxication product ochratoxin alpha (OTα) in urine and in blood plasma is developed and it is proposed to include analyses of this metabolite in future biomonitoring studies, also in light of the observed variations for urine OTα-levels that suggest different interindividual abilities for OTA-detoxification in humans.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple and fast method for the selective quantification of the three most environmentally relevant polymers polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) in soil using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).

TL;DR: A longitudinally designed study in mother–child pairs with parallel collection of maternal blood, milk and of infant urine samples confirms that urinary OTA analysis in infants is a valid biomarker of exposure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the differences in physicochemical and microbial soil quality resulting from the use of either wheat straw or black polyethylene, two widely used practices in strawberry cultivation, were investigated.