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Newsletter "Assessment of the safety of fish farmed on the new feeds developed by the project" - June/July 2010
  • Introduction on aquafeeds and Aquamax scope
  • Effects of contaminants and nutrients in Atlantic salmon on tissue composition, gene expression and development in mice offspring
  • Innovative food safety toxicity tests have been developed by identifying and characterising signature effects of key toxicants in fish
  • Actions of key toxicants and their amelioration by fish nutrients in developing animals and cultured cells
  • Effects of 4 contaminants commonly found in seafood
  • Food safety tests have been conducted in animals fed fish farmed on traditional and new diets 
  • EFSA: Guidance on human health risk benefit assessments of foods
  • Established and emerging pollutants in farmed fish: characterisation of critical effects and their possible modulation by diet in juvenile female mice
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Newsletter "Health benefits of consuming fish for the pregnant woman and her child with a focus on allergic diseases" - June 2010
  • Nutritional properties of fish
  • Why focus on pregnant woman and infant atopy
  • Oily fish in health: atopic diseases
  • SiPS - Salmon in Pregnancy Study
  • What the literature says about PUFAs and infant atopy
  • The Chinese observational study
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Aquamax newsletter issue04

Newsletter "Sustainable alternatives to fish meal and fish oil to produce fish feeds" - March 2010
  • Family-specific response in Atlantic salmon to replacing fish oil with vegetable oil in their diet: Microarray analysis of liver transcriptome
  • Changes induced by a plant based diet compared to a marine based diet in 2 lines of rainbow trout selected for muscle fat content
  • Sea bream performance and health: Food safety - Nutrient metabolism, nutrigenomics and flesh quality
  • Comparative utilisation of drugs by gilthead sea bream fed fish oil or vegetable oil based diets 
  • AquaMax sea bream - consumer acceptance
  • Fish In : Fish Out Ratio - An assessment of environmental burdens
  • Life Cycle Analysis - Environmental impact assessment: Ingredients, feeds and farm
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Newsletter "Assessment of the safety of fish farmed on the new feedsdeveloped by the project" - August 2009
  • Nutrients in fish
  • Environmental contaminants in seafood
  • EU maximum levels for contaminants in food
  • Salmon feeding trial
  • Aquacultur - controlled farmed food production
  • EFSA scientific opinion 
  • Risks and benefits of fish consumption
  • Modulating effect of nutrients on contaminants
  • Selenium's modulating effect on methylmercury
  • Organic aquaculture
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Newsletter "The perception of farmed fish and fish fed on new diets" - April 2009

  • Consumer perceptions
  • Why a media analysis?
  • Research objectives 
  • Methodology applied in the study
  • Intensity of media reporting
  • Concerns about environmental risks 
  • Importance of economic benefits
  • Amplification of human health risks 
  • Trust and regulations
  • Conclusions
  • Implication for risks communication
  • Estonia: a case study

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Newsletter "Sustainable alternatives to fish meal and fish oil to produce fish feeds" - August 2008 
  • Introduction
  • Alternatives to fish meal
  • Replacing fish oil with vegetable feeds
  • Evaluation of sustainability using LCA
  • The Aquamax diets
  • Progress report of fish fed the new diets
  • Presentations 

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Newsletter "Health benefits of consumption of fish for pregnant woman and her baby" - June 2008 
  • Introduction
  • Whose baby has a higher risk for allergy?
  • More details about study
  • Oily fish intake recommendation
  • What is oily fish?
  • Fish with minimum contamination
  • Interview with volunteer

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First General Newsletter - April 2008 
  • Word of Welcome
  • Ethical Issues
  • Development new fish feeds
  • Health benefits pregnant women and child
  • Balance contaminants and health benefits fish
  • Public opinion and risk assessment
  • Project Partners
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