Marty Blom

I study the health effects and risks of allergens and novel proteins. Through scientific research and innovation, we aim to enhance food safety. In multidisciplinary collaboration, I enjoy translating complex data into practical tools - aligned with policy, industry, healthcare, and patient organisations.

I am part of Risk Analysis for Prevention, Innovation & Development (RAPID). This department studies the health effects of exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace, in the environment, and after intake. It develops innovative approaches for early prediction of health effects resulting from such exposure, as well as measuring, modelling, and managing exposure.

Publications

Blom WM, Westerhout J, Le TM, Taylor SL, Baumert JL, Houben GF. Symptoms at population Eliciting Doses ≤ED05 for 11 priority allergenic foods are mild to moderate. Food Chem Toxicol. 2025 Jan 10:115250.

Scholten B, van der Sanden K, Kelly B, Henzing B, Pronk A, Blom WM, Klous L, Kingma BRM. Integrated assessment of simultaneous threshold exceedance of heat, air pollution and airborne allergenic pollen across Europe (pdf). Environ Int. 2024 Oct;192:109010.

Bilsen J, Blom M, Knapen M, Osch van, L, Rouhani Rankouhi, T, Vos, R. Nov 2023 Leefstijl Kennisvragen – Overzicht uit de Nederlandse Kennisagenda’s, Coalitie Leefstijl in de Zorg. Leefstijl kennisvragen (pdf)

W. Marty Blom, Joost Westerhout, Geert F. Houben. The 50th percentile of the general population single eating occasion intake of food is optimal for the calculation of action levels for precautionary allergen labelling. Food and Chemical Toxicology 179, 2023, 113953.

Benjamin C. Remington, Joseph Baumert, W. Marty Blom, Luca Bucchini, Neil Buck, René Crevel, Fleur De Mooij, Simon Flanagan, Despoina Angeliki Stavropoulou, Myrthe W. van den Dungen, Marjan van Ravenhorst, Si Wang, Michael Walker.  PRACTICAL GUIDANCE on the Application of Food Allergen Quantitative Risk Assessment within Food Operations ILSI Europe Report 2022.

Blom WM, van Dijk LM, Michelsen-Huisman AD, Houben GF, Knulst AC, Linders YFM, Verhoeckx KCM, Holleman BC, Lentz LR. Allergen labelling: Current practice and improvement from a communication perspective. Clinical Experimental Allergy. 2021;51:574–584.

Houben GF, Baumert JL, Blom WM, Kruizinga AG, Meima MY, Remington BC, Wheeler MC, Westerhout J, Taylor SL. Full range of population Eliciting Dose values for 14 priority allergenic foods and recommendations for use in risk characterization (pdf). Food Chemical Toxicology 2020: 146;111831.

Meima MY, Remington BC, Blom WM, Baumert JL, Taylor SL, Jeffery B, Robert M-C, Houben GF, Lucas Luijckx NB. Methods to determine the risk of unintended allergen presence related to the dispersion of allergenic food particles in food production areas. Food control 2020, 107850.

Blom WM, Michelsen-Huisman AD, van Os-Medendorp H, van Duijn G, de Zeeuw-Brouwer ML, Versluis A, Castenmiller JJM, Noteborn HPJM, Kruizinga AG, Knulst AC, Houben GF. Accidental food allergy reactions: Products and undeclared ingredients. J Allergy Clinical Immunology. 2018;142(3):865-875.