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CONTACT
Organisation
Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad
Contact person
Prof. Biljana Škrbić
e-mail
biljana@tehnol.ns.ac.yu
Phone
+381/21/4853746
Address
Bulevar cara Lazara 1
City/code
Novi Sad 21000
Country
Serbia
PROJECT
Project type:
X Collaborative projects
Planned to
participate as:
X Partner
Call identifier :
Topics:
FP7-KBBE-2007-1
Networks of
Excellence
X Coordinator
X Coordination and Support
Actions
KBBE-2007-2-4-02-Detecting contaminants in the food and feed technologies
KBBE-2007-2-4-05-Food sampling strategies for risk analysis
Other work
programme topics
you are interested in:
FP7-REGPOT-2007-3
Your main research
areas / Description
of research
activities
- Development of monitoring methods including sampling, preparation and
analytical methods (liquid and gas chromatography, thin layer chromatography,
atomic absorption spectrometry, etc) for persistent organic pollutants
(organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls), polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons, toxic elements and other matter harmful for human population in
the environmental matrices (soil, water and air), biological samples, major food
crops and related products, waste streams
-Food quality, safety and nutrition: quality and nutritional value of foodstuffs;
development of novel food and ingredients with nutritional and health claims,
satisfying both the nutrient requirements and food quality and safety criteria
according to the EC legislation and Codex Alimentarius; detecting contaminants
in the food and feed chain (persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals, etc.);
-Food safety risk analysis – exposure assessment concerning persistent organic
pollutants (organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls), polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons, and toxic elements; health risks related to exposure of
chemical residues in food;
- Exploration of current arrangements of food safety regulations in the world by
reviewing institutional procedures and structures to cope with food risks
regarding the chemical contaminants and residuals in food, applied methodology
of analysis, identification and control due to analyzing their comparability with
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existing European requirements;
-Mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques usable in biomonitoring (multivariate analysis, principal component analysis (PCA), cluster
analysis (CA), artificial neural networks (ANN), quantitative structure-property
relationships (QSPR), quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR),
quantitative structure-retention relationships (QSRR)).
Expertise / Commitment offered:
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Development of simplified control and detection methods for persistent organic pollutants,
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals, and of predictive models for behaviour of
relevant hazards in foods improving toxicological exposure assessment
Improvement and harmonization of sampling procedure and sample preparation protocols along
food chain in relation to persistent organic pollutants (organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated
biphenyls), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and toxic elements, and training for these
techniques
Providing the information and support for food safety policies in the areas of contaminants safety
Exchange of know-how and experience setting up of sustainable partnership between the most
competetive EU-s regions, Member Sates and Serbia
Improvement and enlarging the RTD capacity of Serbia competence in terms of chemical
contaminants research programmes, scientific and technical human resources and S&T
infrastructure
Dissemination activities
OTHER RELEVANT FACTS
Team Leader (Prof. Biljana Škrbić) has significant previous experience in coordination and leadership
of research projects:
1. Development of the ecologically accepted processing and products in oil petrochemical industry
(national project funded by the Serbian Ministry for Science and Environmental Protection, 1991/95)
2. Development of new technologies for wastegas and wastewater purification and methods for gas and
water quality control (national project funded by the Serbian Ministry for Science and Environmental
Protection, 1996/00)
3. Development of methods for identification of chemical residues and contaminants in major food crops
(national project funded by the Serbian Ministry for Science and Environmental Protection, 2002/05)
4. Baked goods and flour confectioneries with addition of industrial plant seed (national project funded
by the Serbian Ministry for Science and Environmental Protection, 2006/07)
5. Coordinator of the project within the Course Development Plus Program implemented in “Support to
Higher Education in Serbia and Montenegro in 2005/07” financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, 2006
6. Coordinator of the innovation project funded by CARLSBERG-Serbia "Certified reference materialswheat flour and soil with certified contents of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons”.
In addition, the project proposal of Prof. Biljana Škrbić “Center of excellence for research and
knowledge transfer in food chemical contaminants analysis” under the call FP-6-2005-INCOWBC/SSA-3 was positively evaluated (20/25).
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Relevant references of the team:
1. B. Škrbić, N. Miljević, An evalution of residues at an oil refinery sites following fires, J.
Environ. Sci. Health, A 37(6), 1029-1039, 2002. IF=0.501
2. B. Škrbić, J.Novaković, N. Miljević, Mobility of heavy metals originating from bombing of
industrial sites, J. Environ. Sci. Health, A 37(1), 7-16, 2002. IF=0.501
3. D. Golobočanin, B. Škrbić, N. Miljević, Principal component analysis for soil contamination
with PAHs, Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst., 72, 219-223, 2004. IF=2.229
4. B. Škrbić, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, J. Cvejanov, Discrimination between linear and non-linear
models for retention indices of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the so-called Lee's scale,
Chemom. Intell. Lab.Syst., 72, 167-171, 2004. IF=2.229
5. B. Škrbić; S. Čupić, Trace metal distribution in surface soils of Novi Sad and bank sediment of
the Danube River, J. Environ. Sci. Health A, 39, 1547-1558, 2004. IF=0.501
6. B. Škrbić, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, J. Cvejanov, Principal component analysis of trace elements
in Serbian wheat, J. Agric. Food Chem., 53, 2171-2175, 2005. IF=2.102
7. B. Škrbić, S. Čupić, Toxic and essential elements in soft wheat grain cultivated in Serbia, Eur.
Food Res. Technol., 221, 361-366, 2005. IF=1.173
8. E. Lončar, Lj. Kolarov, R. Malbaša, B. Škrbić, Qualitative TLC determination of some
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sugar-beet, J. Serb. Chem. Soc., 70, 1237-1242, 2005.
IF=0.522
9. S. Sremac, B. Škrbić, A. Onjia, Artificial neural network prediction of quantitative structure –
retention relationships of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in gas chromatography, J. Serb.
Chem. Soc., 70, 1291-1300, 2005. IF=0.522
10. B. Škrbić, J. Cvejanov, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface
soils of Novi Sad and bank sediment of the Danube River, J. Environ. Sci. Health A, 40, 29-43,
2005. IF=0.501
11. B. Škrbić, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, Toxic and essential elements in Serbian sugar beet, molasses
and white sugar, Zuckerindustrie, 130, 913-917, 2005. IF=0.182
12. B. Škrbić, A. Onjia, Prediction of the Lee retention indices of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
by artificial neural network, J. Chromatogr. A, 1108, 279-284, 2006. IF=3.359
13. B. Škrbić, J. Gyura, Survey on some contaminants in white sugar from Serbian sugar beet
refineries, Food Addit. Contam., 23, 31-35, 2006. IF=1.61
14. M. Šćiban, M. Klašnja, B. Škrbić, Modified softwood sawdust as adsorbent of heavy metal ions
from water, J. Hazard. Mater., B136, 266-271, 2006. IF=1.544
15. B. Škrbić, A. Onjia, Prediction of programmed-temperature retention indices of polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons in the Lee index scale by artificial neural network, MATCH Commun.
Math. Comput. Chem., 55, 287-304, 2006. IF=1.0
16. M. Šćiban, M. Klašnja, B. Škrbić, Modified hardwood sawdust as adsorbent of heavy metal ions
from water, Wood Sci. Technol., 40, 217-227, 2006. IF=0.803
17. B. Škrbić, J. Gyura, Iron, copper and zinc in white sugar from Serbian sugar beet refineries,
Food Control, 18, 135-139, 2007. IF=1.132
18. B. Škrbić, A. Onjia, Multivariate analyses of microelement contents in wheat cultivated in Serbia
(2002), Food Control, 18, 338-345, 2007. IF=1.132
19. B. Škrbić, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, Principal component analysis for soil contamination with
organochlorine
compounds,
Chemosphere
2007,
accepted
for
publication.
doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.01.083 IF= 2.297
20. B. Škrbić, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, Non-dioxin-like PCBs in crops and related products: levels
and intakes in Serbia, Food Addit. Contam. 2007, accepted for publication. IF=1.61
21. B. Škrbić, Organochlorine and organophosphate pesticide residues in wheat varieties from
Serbia, Food Addit. Contam. 2007, accepted for publication. IF=1.61
22. B. Škrbić, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, Distribution of chlorinated organic pollutants in a wide
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variety of soils from Europe and Asia worldwide: A multivariate statistical approach, Arch.
Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 2007, accepted for publication. IF=1.408
B. Škrbić, J. Cvejanov, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated
biphenyls in surface soils of Novi Sad and bank sediment of the Danube River, J. Environ. Sci.
Health B 42, 2007, accepted for publication. IF=0.862
B. Škrbić, J. Cvejanov, N. Djurišić-Mladenović, The organochlorine residues in some the
Serbian agricultural products, Fresen. Environ. Bull. 16 (2), 122-126, 2007. IF=0.509
B. Škrbić, Level of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in products of sugar
beet refineries in Serbia, Fresen. Environ. Bull. 16 (6), 2007, accepted for publication. IF=0.509
B. Škrbić, B. Filipčev, Element intakes through the consumption of different types of bread by
Serbian population, Acta Alimentaria 2007, accepted for publication. IF= 0.274
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