Innovation required in risk assessment of nanoparticles The currently existing models and techniques provide insufficient certainties in the assessment of the harmfulness of nanoparticles and nanomaterials to people and the environment.
Release of QMRAspot v2 for quantitative microbial risk assessment of drinking water RIVM has developed a new version of QMRAspot (2.0), a user-friendly computational tool to calculate the risk of becoming infected by pathogenic microorganisms in drinking water.
Regulation of nanomaterials needs more than definition alone In a new publication, RIVM indicates scientific challenges in the use of the EU definition for nanomaterial in legislation.