Humans are continuously exposed to furan, a hepatotoxic and carcinogenic process-related food contaminant. Considerable uncertainties associated with current exposure estimates based on the content of furan in food underscore the need to explore biomarker monitoring as an alternative or complementary approach to furan exposure assessment. Previous work in rats demonstrated a linear correlation between furan dose and several ur...

Humans are chronically exposed to furan, a potent liver toxicant and carcinogen that occurs in a variety of heat-processed foods. Assessment of human exposure based on the furan content in foods is, however, subject to some uncertainty due to the high volatility of furan. Biomarker monitoring is thus considered an alternative or complementary approach to furan exposure assessment. Previous work suggested that urinary furan met...

We evaluated the impact of a philanthropic program investing in the conservation of sites along the Pacific Americas Flyway, which spans >16,000 km of coastline and is used by millions of shorebirds. Using a quasi‐experimental, mixed methods approach, we estimated what would have happened to shorebird populations at 17 wintering sites without the sustained and additional investment they received. We modeled shorebird populatio...

Detailed post-mortem investigations including the auditory pathway are needed to advance our understanding of how underwater noise and other stressors affect hearing in cetaceans. A 12-year-old female porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ) stranded alive in June 2021 at the German Baltic Sea coast and died some hours later. The most significant pathological findings were lesions caused by a severe aspergillosis that spread from the lu...