This year, the Roquette Foundation for Health awarded its third Research Prize to Delphine PAYROS, INRAE researcher at the Food Toxicology laboratory in Toulouse, and her team for their work on the consequences of the food exposome in digestive pathophysiology.

The chemical food exposome refers to human exposure to a wide range of food contaminants and neo-formed products, including mycotoxins, which are very common in our nutrition.

The objective of the project is to identify the contaminants or neo-formed products from food, whether alone or in combination, for which the health risk is aggravated by deoxynivalenol (one of the most frequently found mycotoxins in our food). It thus aims to address the issues of multiple exposures on digestive health and, more broadly, human health.