| Acronym: | Lactis+ |
| Cost Center: | 658 |
| Title: | Lactis+ - Environmental bioavailability of iodine and selenium in a volcanic environment: soil, pasture grass and milk from the island of São Miguel, Azores |
| Start-End: | 07-12-2016 - 07-12-2019 |
| Beneficiary Entity: | Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso |
| Gestores da FGF: | Bruno Machado, Fábio Sousa |
| Responsible Researcher: | Armindo dos Santos Rodrigues |
| R&D Units: | IVAR - Instituto de Investigação em Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos |
| Total Financing: | 155.014,16 |
| Outras Fontes de Financiamento: | 155.014,16 (100.0 %) |
Service Provision Description:
The present provision of services is developed within the scope of the project called Environmental Bioavailability of Iodine and Selenium in a volcanic environment: soil, pasture grass and milk from the island of São Miguel, Afores , Lactis+.
The goals are as follows:
1. Determining, if and how, the environmental availability of iodine and selenium may be affected by environmental and geological factors by comparing the availability of the elements through: i) geographic location of the collection sites, geomorphological aspects and other geological characteristics; ii) physicochemical characterization of soils; iii) determination of the concentration of iodine and selenium in soils and in grass samples from the respective pastures;
2. To verify if and how, pasture-fed milk can be used as an agent for human supplementation, characterizing the content of Iodine and Selenium in raw and pasteurized milk.
