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Dominique Turck

Dominique Turck

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
32553
World Ranking
13966
National Ranking
451

Overview

Dominique Turck is a researcher affiliated with the University of Lille in France, with a primary focus on medicine and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several key subfields, including food science, nutrition and dietetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology and allergy, and genetics.

Their research interests cover a range of significant topics such as agricultural safety and regulations, consumer attitudes and food labeling, food allergy and anaphylaxis research, infant nutrition and health, effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, digestive system and related health, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Dominique Turck has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Safety of dried yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor larva) as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, 2021, EFSA Journal
  • Scientific opinion on the tolerable upper intake level for selenium, 2023, EFSA Journal

Frequent coauthors working alongside Turck include:

  • Androniki Naska
  • Karen Ildico Hirsch-Ernst
  • Alexandre Maciuk
  • Frank Thiès
  • Helle Katrine Knutsen

The main publication venues for Turck's work are diverse but heavily centered on EFSA Journal, where they have published extensively. Other notable venues include the World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Perfectionnement en Pédiatrie, and Archives de Pédiatrie.

The body of work reflects a robust engagement in food safety and nutrition, regulatory science, and public health issues related to diet and toxicology. This includes addressing technical requirements for regulated food and feed products, risk assessment of nanomaterials in the food chain, and benchmark dose approaches in risk assessment.

Best Publications

  • Enteral nutrient supply for preterm infants: commentary from the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Committee on Nutrition

    C Agostoni;G Buonocore;VP Carnielli;M De Curtis

  • Complementary Feeding: A Commentary by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition

    Carlo Agostoni;Tamás Decsi;Mary S. Fewtrell;Olivier Goulet

  • Breast-feeding: A commentary by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition

    Carlo Agostoni;Christian Braegger;Tamas Decsi;Sanja Kolacek

  • Global standard for the composition of infant formula: recommendations of an ESPGHAN coordinated international expert group.

    Berthold Koletzko;Susan Baker;Geoff Cleghorn;Ulysses Fagundes Neto

  • Natural History of Pediatric Crohn's Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study

    Gwenola Vernier–Massouille;Mamadou Balde;Julia Salleron;Dominique Turck

  • Vitamin D in the healthy European paediatric population.

    Christian Braegger;Cristina Campoy;Virginie Colomb;Tamas Decsi

  • Supplementation of infant formula with probiotics and/or prebiotics: a systematic review and comment by the ESPGHAN committee on nutrition

    Christian Braegger;Anna Chmielewska;Tamas Decsi;Sanja Kolacek

  • Donor human milk for preterm infants: current evidence and research directions.

    Sertac Arslanoglu;Willemijn Corpeleijn;Willemijn Corpeleijn;Guido Moro;Christian Braegger

  • ESPEN-ESPGHAN-ECFS guidelines on nutrition care for infants, children, and adults with cystic fibrosis

    Dominique Turck;Christian P. Braegger;Carla Colombo;Dimitri Declercq

  • Iron requirements of infants and toddlers

    Magnus Domellöf;Christian Braegger;Cristina Campoy;Virginie Colomb

  • Guidance on harmonised methodologies for human health, animal health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals

    Simon John More;Vasileios Bampidis;Diane Benford

  • Practical approach to paediatric enteral nutrition: A comment by the ESPGHAN committee on nutrition

    Christian Braegger;Tamás Decsi;Jorge Amil Dias;Corina Hartman

  • Soy Protein Infant Formulae and Follow-On Formulae: A Commentary by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition.

    Carlo Agostoni;Irene Axelsson;Olivier Goulet;Berthold Koletzko

  • The Natural History of Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis: A Population-Based Cohort Study

    Corinne Gower-Rousseau;Luc Dauchet;Gwénola Vernier-Massouille;Emmanuelle Tilloy

  • Probiotic bacteria in dietetic products for infants: a commentary by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition.

    Carlo Agostoni;Irene E. M. Axelsson;Christian Braegger;Olivier Goulet

  • Incidence and risk factors of oral antibiotic-associated diarrhea in an outpatient pediatric population.

    Dominique Turck;Jean-Paul Bernet;Jacques Marx;Hélène Kempf

  • Guidance on risk assessment of the application of nanoscience and nanotechnologies in the food and feed chain: Part 1, human and animal health.

    Anthony Hardy;Diane Benford;Thorhallur Halldorsson;Michael John Jeger

  • Environmental risk factors in paediatric inflammatory bowel diseases: a population based case control study

    S Baron;D Turck;C Leplat;V Merle

  • Idiopathic disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guérin infection: a French national retrospective study.

    J L Casanova;S Blanche;J F Emile;E Jouanguy

  • Dietary reference values for vitamin K.

    Dominique Turck;Jean‐Louis Bresson;Barbara Burlingame;Tara Dean

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Gottrand
Frédéric Gottrand University of Lille
Henk van Loveren
Henk van Loveren Maastricht University
Rosangela Marchelli
Rosangela Marchelli University of Parma
Yolanda Sanz
Yolanda Sanz Spanish National Research Council
Susan J. Fairweather-Tait
Susan J. Fairweather-Tait University of East Anglia
Karl-Heinz Engel
Karl-Heinz Engel Technical University of Munich
Raanan Shamir
Raanan Shamir Tel Aviv University
Jean-Frederic Colombel
Jean-Frederic Colombel Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Berthold Koletzko
Berthold Koletzko Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hania Szajewska
Hania Szajewska Medical University of Warsaw

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