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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: 03-07-2016Toolbox 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: 03-07-2016Mental health at risk: broad investment in mental health by new government required
https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/mental-health-at-risk-broad-investment-in-mental-health-by-new-government-required… Monitor shows that mental health in the Netherlands is at risk and highlights the urgency of the situation. Around 85% … to improve individual well-being and detect mental health risks and problems at an early stage. If problems do arise, … Mental health at risk: broad investment in mental health by new government …
Publication date: 12-12-2025EFSA-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: 03-10-2016Travellers to Cape Verde: be alert to bacterial dysentery caused by shigellosis
https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/travellers-to-cape-verde-be-alert-to-bacterial-dysentery-caused-by-shigellosis… RIVM has warned travellers to Cape Verde about a shigellosis risk. The bacterial infection causes severe bloody diarrhoea … on the Cape Verdean islands. There are certain health risks as a result of the outbreak. Travellers can make an … to shigellosis. Good hygiene can help to minimise the risk: Wash your hands regularly. Flush the toilet with the …
Publication date: 12-10-2025Early detection and screening
https://www.rivm.nl/en/dna-and-public-health/early-detection-and-screening… identify early on whether someone has a condition or is at risk of developing one. This can be done in different ways. … a genetic predisposition to a disease that increases the risk of disease. For more information on this and RIVM’s … multiple locations on the DNA that are associated with the risk of developing a disease. This means that, in the …
Publication date: 12-16-2025Responsible innovation with nanomaterials and nanotechnology: past, present, future
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/responsible-innovation-with-nanomaterials-and-nanotechnology-past-present-future… into everyday life accelerates, understanding the risks and benefits of these materials becomes crucial, … and clean energy applications. Balancing benefits and risks is key Understanding how nanomaterials move, … to managing both benefits—like cleaner energy systems—and risks, such as nanoparticle pollution. The overarching …
Publication date: 12-18-2025Flu vaccine during pregnancy
https://www.rivm.nl/en/flu-and-flu-vaccine/vaccine/pregnancy… Newborn babies have a higher risk of serious consequences from flu, such as hospital … If a pregnant woman gets the flu, she has a higher risk of serious illness than a woman who is not pregnant. … compared to women of the same age who are not pregnant. The risk of ICU admission or death from flu does not seem to …
Publication date: 12-19-2025GUIDEnano
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: 03-09-2016New approach methodologies to study intestinal fate of nanomaterials: current understanding and knowledge gaps
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/new-approach-methodologies-to-study-intestinal-fate-of-nanomaterials-current-understanding… knowledge gaps remain, especially in standardising and assessing how well these models mimic human biology and … human health. The intestinal uptake of NMs is critical for assessing their systemic effects. The intestine serves as a … strengthen the scientific and regulatory foundations for assessing the intestinal fate of ingested NMs. The document …
Publication date: 12-18-2025Contribution 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: 03-08-2016Machine learning to identify key factors in titanium dioxide nanoparticle genotoxicity; a work in progress
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/machine-learning-to-identify-key-factors-in-titanium-dioxide-nanoparticle-genotoxicity-work… handling outliers and validating the model warrants further assessment. The findings of this study are therefore not … presents an interesting approach that uses ML for hazard assessment. If developed further, these methods could be valuable for hazard and risk assessment. However, in its current set-up, the …
Publication date: 12-18-2025Antimicrobial 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: 03-08-2016Transforming waste into valuable resources: innovations in sustainable nanoparticle synthesis
https://www.rivm.nl/en/weblog/transforming-waste-into-valuable-resources-innovations-in-sustainable-nanoparticle-synthesis… Consequently, the existing issues surrounding their risk assessment remain, including knowledge gaps on long-term …
Publication date: 12-18-2025Help
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: 03-09-2016Zika 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: 03-29-2016