RIVM has been promoting public health and safeguarding environmental quality in the Netherlands for over 100 years.
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A guide for the safe reuse of diaper and incontinence materials
RIVM has developed a step-by-step plan for the safe reuse of diapers and incontinence material. This plan provides recyclers and licensing authorities with tools to carry out a risk assessment.
New data on greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen slightly; ammonia emissions remain stable.
Humans themselves are the most important source of ESBL Antibiotic Resistance
Higher mortality during heatwave in July in the Netherlands
Reactor shut down will cause global medical isotope shortage
National Heat Plan no longer in effect as of July 29th
Featured topics
Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance
Food and Nutrition
Food and Nutrition
International projects
International projects
National Immunisation Programme
National Immunisation Programme
Microplastics
Microplastics
WHO Collaborating Centres
WHO Collaborating Centres
Recent publications
- Assessment of recycling of diapers and incontinence materials : Step-by-step plan and risk assessment framework for potential risks of substances and pathogens in products
- Large-scale concentration and deposition maps of the Netherlands : 2019 report
- Methodology report on the calculation of emissions to air from the sectors Energy, Industry and Waste : as used by the Dutch Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
- Methodology for the calculation of emissions from product usage by consumers, construction and services
- Informative Inventory Report 2019 : Emissions of transboundary air pollutants in the Netherlands 1990-2017
- Risk-driven supervision and enforcement: ranking undesirable events in the soil management chain
- Recent developments in medical radiation applications : Ionising radiation update 2018/2019
- Surveillance of influenza and other respiratory infections: winter 2018/2019. Annual report
- TEEB City Tool : Updating and further development