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You searched for these word(s): risk assessmentMicrobial risk assessment
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-risk-assessment-of-pathogens-in-food-and-water/terms-of-reference/microbial-risk-assessment… WHO in The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA). The CC provides technical expertise and peer review for JEMRA risk assessment. A guidance document will be prepared for … Microbial risk assessment … Microbial risk assessment …
Publication date: 03-07-2016Elderly people at the highest risk of falling benefit least from chain approach to fall prevention
https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/elderly-people-at-highest-risk-of-falling-benefit-least-from-chain-approach-to-fall-prevention… 65 and over living independently who participated in a fall risk assessment has increased. This assessment is used to … The number of fall risk assessments administered is an underestimate, as not all … Elderly people at the highest risk of falling benefit least from chain approach to fall …
Publication date: 11-28-2025Toolbox and resources WHO CC Risk Assessment Pathogens in Food and Water
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-risk-assessment-of-pathogens-in-food-and-water/toolbox-and-resources… safety through its expertise in Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA). This approach allows for estimating the health risks posed by human pathogens in food and water through … Toolbox and resources WHO CC Risk Assessment Pathogens in Food and Water …
Publication date: 03-07-2016Vulnerable groups have a greater risk of dying from heat, also in Amsterdam
https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/vulnerable-groups-have-greater-risk-of-dying-from-heat-also-in-amsterdam… and fewer cold days in winter. In the Netherlands the risk of dying increases when it is hot. The municipality of … and of neighbourhoods with less green space have a higher risk of dying from heat. Looking ahead, RIVM estimates that … on the climate scenario. There are no clear differences in risks at low temperatures between different groups of …
Publication date: 11-17-2025Ensuring Safety and Sustainability of Advanced Materials: A Call for Enhanced Focus in the Chemistry Industry Action Plan
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/ensuring-safety-and-sustainability-of-advanced-materials-call-for-enhanced-focus-in… for "advanced" materials and the challenges in properly assessing their safety and lifecycle risks are a concern. This highlights the need for reliable data and established test methods and risk assessment methodologies targeted at advanced materials …
Publication date: 11-06-2025EFSA-RIVM Symposium 2016
https://www.rivm.nl/en/food-safety/efsa-rivm-symposium-2016… has been made in developing methods for assessing the risk to public health of such exposures to multiple … scientific progress in the whole area of chemical mixture risk assessment and to discuss the feasibility and prioritisation … EFSA-RIVM Symposium 'The future of risk assessment and toxicity testing for chemical mixtures' …
Publication date: 03-10-2016Advanced materials in the energy transition and their impact on human and environmental health
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/advanced-materials-in-energy-transition-and-their-impact-on-human-and-environmental-health… transition. These advanced materials may pose potential risks to human health and the environment. To ensure that … itself does not create new health, environmental or social risks, it is necessary to carefully consider the safety and … advancements bring many benefits, they may also pose new risks to human health and the environment. The agency’s …
Publication date: 11-06-2025GUIDEnano
https://www.rivm.nl/en/international-projects/guidenano… Assessment and mitigation of nano-enabled product risks on … to evaluate and manage human and environmental health risks of nano-enabled products, considering the whole … of cost-effective strategies for experimental exposure assessment. These will include on-site and off-site …
Publication date: 03-09-2016Contribution to WHO Guidelines
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-risk-assessment-of-pathogens-in-food-and-water/terms-of-reference/contribution-to-who-guidelines… the work of the Joint Expert meeting for Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on Water Quality in Food Production and … have already been developed by the WHO on water quality assessment and management. This includes the Guidelines for …
Publication date: 03-08-2016Awareness raising and capacity building
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-risk-assessment-of-pathogens-in-food-and-water/terms-of-reference/awareness-raising-and-capacity-building… Planning and Water Quality Monitoring One of the greatest risks to drinking-water safety is contamination with human … to managing drinking-water safety. WSP is a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that encompasses all …
Publication date: 03-08-2016FutureNanoNeeds
https://www.rivm.nl/en/international-projects/futurenanoneeds… At this point, it is not possible to make an accurate assessment of the risks these particles may pose for humans and the … developed calculation models to allow the prediction of the risks of new generations of nanoparticles. The key outcome …
Publication date: 03-09-2016Disease burden estimation tools in a One Health approach
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-risk-assessment-of-pathogens-in-food-and-water/terms-of-reference/disease-burden-estimation-tools-in-a-one-health-approach… of countries in conducting burden of foodborne disease assessments and increasing the number of countries that … were designated in the WHO Collaborating Centre for Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Water and Food (specifically ToR …
Publication date: 03-08-2016Antimicrobial resistance
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-risk-assessment-of-pathogens-in-food-and-water/terms-of-reference/antimicrobial-resistance… of the terms of reference of the WHO Collaborating Centre Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water is to assist WHO …
Publication date: 03-08-2016EU Court upholds annulment of classification of Titanium dioxide in certain powder forms
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/eu-court-upholds-annulment-of-classification-of-tio2-in-certain-powder-forms… had cancelled the classification, stating that the original assessment had not considered all relevant factors. In the … In 2017, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) agreed with the classification as …
Publication date: 11-06-2025Impact of Dispersion Methods on Nanoparticle Toxicity: A Call for Better Guidance
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/impact-of-dispersion-methods-on-nanoparticle-toxicity-call-for-better-guidance… interpreting the results of these studies in the context of risk assessment of particles and for comparison with real-life …
Publication date: 11-06-2025Help
https://www.rivm.nl/en/consexpo/help… from Solid Matrices: A method for consumer exposure assessment Spray model Overarching issues – ConsExpo Web and … and the physicochemical properties of the substance under assessment are needed. This report describes in detail how … Web tool is to be used to conduct consumer exposure assessments. It describes how to add multiple scenarios to …
Publication date: 03-22-2016SOLUTIONS
https://www.rivm.nl/en/international-projects/solutions… need to improve principles and practices for protection, assessment and management of chemical pollution under the … of products. Most relevant for water quality protection, assessment, and management is a series of Policy Briefs . … tool, as described in the Policy Brief Chemical pollution assessment tools . The policy- and practice-oriented …
Publication date: 03-09-2016Brucellosis
https://www.rivm.nl/en/topics/brucellosis… could end up with permanent damage. Who has a higher risk of brucellosis? Some people have a higher risk of getting a Brucella infection, and are therefore at higher risk of developing brucellosis. This mainly applies to: …
Publication date: 11-18-2025Zika Virus
https://www.rivm.nl/en/zika-virus… being born with Guillain-Barré syndrome . By 2019, the risk of getting infected with the Zika virus in Central and … travelling to these regions does continue to pose certain risks to pregnant women and women who wish to have children. … By 2019, this outbreak was largely over. As a result, the risk of being infected with the Zika virus has decreased …
Publication date: 03-29-2016Lassa fever
https://www.rivm.nl/en/topics/lassa-fever… result. This happens in about 2% of cases. Who has a higher risk of contracting Lassa fever? Care workers (such as … seriously ill as a result of Lassa fever also have a higher risk of contracting the disease. They are more likely to … always fatal in newborns. Young children also have a high risk of death from the disease. The risks are also higher …
Publication date: 11-25-2025