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  • (-) Tobacco (3)
  • (-) WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Product Regulation and Control (3)
  • (-) WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety (3)
  • (-) Tick-borne encephalitis (1)
  • Tick bites (2)
  • Zoonotic diseases (2)
  • Antimicrobial resistance (1)
  • Nanotechnology (1)
  • One Health (1)
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  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology and Surveillance (1)

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  • July 2016 (2)
  • April 2015 (5)

First patient infected by tick-borne encephalitis virus

For the first time, a person in the Netherlands has fallen ill after a bite from a tick carrying the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE virus).

22-07-2016 | 00:00
Een teek op een grasspriet

RIVM and German BfR enter cooperation agreement on animal protection and food safety

The German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment (BfR) and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM have signed a cooperation agreement, focused on developing new sci

05-07-2016 | 00:00

Increase in number of additives in tobacco products

A total of 673 different types of additives are used by manufacturers in their tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco) and the number of additives used per tobacco product type incre

30-04-2015 | 00:00

Metals in tobacco harmful to health

Growing tobacco plants acquire metals from soil, fertilisers, and industrial pollution. Smoking liberates some of these metals from tobacco into smoke to be inhaled by the smoker and bystanders.

30-04-2015 | 00:00

RIVM writes Novel Tobacco Products paper for WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) has just published a Report of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation (TobReg).

20-04-2015 | 00:00

Potassium intake and risk for hyperkalaemia reviewed

It is nearly impossible to get an overdose of potassium from natural food sources.

10-04-2015 | 00:00

Adequate limit value for pyrrolizidine alkaloids in herbal tea and herbal preparations

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are natural toxins occurring in a wide variety of plants, including herbs.

08-04-2015 | 00:00
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