BLT Fall Symposium 2025 (Oct 7) – program available

BLT Meeting – October 7th, 2025, UZ Brussel, 17:00-22:00

Location:
UZ Brussel, Auditorium Landmark; nearest car park is P3 (https://www.uzbrussel.be/parkeerplaatsen-auto).
Use the entrance to the consultation building (=Landmark) and not the main entrance for hospitalisation. Upon entering, take the escalator upstairs and the auditorium is on the right-hand side.

Program:

17:00 – Welcome
17:30–18:00 – Wastewater is the mirror of our society – Tim Boogaerts (UAntwerpen)
18:00–18:30 – New Belgian Guideline on Paracetamol Intoxication Treatment – Jonas Moens (Belgian Poison Centre) + Loes Van Mierop (AZ Groeninge Kortrijk)
18:30-18:45 – Current trends and future actions for monitoring the Belgian drug market – Maarten Degreef (Sciensano Drug Unit)
18:45–20:00 – Short Communications
- Helena Van Passel (UZ Leuven) ECG risk factors cannot reliably predict adverse cardiovascular events in acute drug intoxication
- Marine Deville (CHU Liege): Methylmethcathinone (MMC) isomer identification : brain teaser illustrated by a case report
- Karen Segers (NICC): The Belgian party drugs screened at Extrema Outdoor 2025
- Mette Expeels (UGent): Pharmacological Toxicity assessment by Global Pill Testing (PhaT-GPT): Application of activity-based opioid screening in drug checking
- Sanne Vanthourenhout (AZ Groeninge Kortrijk): Quantification of 2,4-dinitrophenol and metabolites in a case of unexpected death
- Kevin Vandenbroucke (UGent): Reference values for alcohol biomarker Peth in the Belgian population: insights from a nationwide microsampling study
20:00–… – Reception

RIZIV accreditation has been requested.

Registration:
Free of charge, but registration is required via the following link (deadline: Sep 24th): https://forms.gle/8q8jpfpnzAmqb9Ch8

Hair Analysis – Working Group

The BLT meeting will be preceded by a meeting of experts involved in hair sampling and analysis (on invitation only), with the aim of drafting a Belgian-Luxembourg guideline for the analysis and interpretation of results from hair sample analysis.