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Keywords
Bioactive constituents
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Botanical
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Mushroom
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Food supplement
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Food toxicology
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Natural toxin
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Novel food
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Plant
Plants and mushrooms contain various bioactive constituents that
may exert both potential beneficial and potential toxic
effects on human health.
I'm especially interested in the toxic effect of
bioactive constituents. I advice the national food
authorities (Danish Veterinary and Food Administration) on
safety of natural toxins in plants and mushrooms
used as food, in novel foods and on botanicals
used as ingredients in food supplements. The evaluations on
plants/botanicals used in food supplement have been published in
the in the so-called Drogeliste. I have participated in
various EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) working
groups e.g. dealing with development of a guidance
document for assessing the safety of botanicals used in food
suplements and gathering information for a compendium
on botanicals and their constituents with toxic
effects.
My scientific background is in toxicology and quantitative
pathology.
See profile and cv in DTU Orbit...