Skip to main content Skip to main navigation
Rijksoverheid logo | to homepage of RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
  • Nederlands
  • English
RIVM Committed to health and sustainability
  • Home
  • Topics
  • About RIVM
  • Publications
  • International
  • Contact
  • Agenda
  • MijnRIVM
  • Nederlands
  • English
  • Home
  • Search

Search


Search

Fill in your search phrase.

Type

Selecting an option will change the focus to the start of the list.
  • Page (11)
  • News item (8)
  • Subject (1)

Publication date

Selecting an option will change the focus to the start of the list.
  • August 2025 (1)
  • January 2025 (1)
  • May 2024 (1)
  • December 2023 (1)
  • January 2023 (1)
  • December 2022 (7)
  • October 2022 (1)
  • November 2020 (1)
  • May 2020 (1)
  • January 2020 (1)
  • December 2019 (1)
  • October 2019 (1)
  • February 2015 (1)
  • June 2014 (1)

Topics

Selecting an option will change the focus to the start of the list.
  • (-) Cervical cancer screening programme (10)
  • (-) PFAS (10)
  • International (185)
  • COVID-19 (96)
  • International projects (64)
  • Nanotechnology and advanced materials (53)
  • Food safety (22)
  • Circular economy (20)
  • RIVM (20)
  • Soil and water (20)
  • Flu and flu vaccine (19)
  • Tobacco (17)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water (17)
  • Alternatives to animal testing (15)
  • Antimicrobial resistance (15)
  • Behavioural science (15)
  • Consumer exposure to chemical substances (15)
  • Heat (15)
  • National Immunisation Programme (14)
  • Food and Nutrition (13)
  • Rubber granulate (13)
  • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) (13)
  • Health research for COVID-19 (12)
  • Immunisation and vaccination (11)
  • Incidents and disasters (11)
  • Infectious Disease Control (11)
  • Mpox (11)
  • Occupational Safety (11)
  • Plastics (11)
  • ConsExpo (10)
  • One Health (10)
  • Tick bites (10)
  • Dutch National Food Consumption Survey (9)
  • Medical devices (9)
  • Public Health Foresight (9)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Laboratory Preparedness and Response for High Threat Pathogens and Biorisk (9)
  • Zoonotic diseases (9)
  • Mental Health (8)
  • Tuberculosis (8)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Product Regulation and Control (8)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety (8)
  • Pneumococci (7)
  • Respiratory infections (7)
  • Sustainability (7)
  • West Nile fever (7)
  • Mosquitos (6)
  • National Security (6)
  • Population screening programs in the Caribbean Netherlands (6)
  • Climate change and Health (5)
  • Food contact materials (5)
  • Healthy living environment (5)
  • Measles (5)
  • Nitrogen (5)
  • Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (5)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Preparedness and IHR monitoring and evaluation (5)
  • Biobased economy (4)
  • Bisphenol A (BPA) (4)
  • Breast Cancer Screening Programme (4)
  • Dengue (4)
  • Endocrine disrupting chemicals (4)
  • Gonorrhoea (4)
  • HPV (4)
  • PIENTER Corona Study (4)
  • Population screening programmes (4)
  • Public Health Monitors (4)
  • Sustainable Development Goals (4)
  • Whooping cough (4)
  • Bird flu (avian influenza) (3)
  • Chromium (VI) and CARC (3)
  • Climate change (3)
  • DNA and public health (3)
  • Electromagnetic Fields (3)
  • Group A Strep infections (3)
  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) (3)
  • Lyme disease (3)
  • Malaria (3)
  • Meningococcal disease (3)
  • Physical Activity (3)
  • Tick-borne encephalitis (3)
  • UV index (3)
  • Wastewater research (3)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Immunotoxicology and Allergic Hypersensitivity; discontinued (3)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition (3)
  • Chikungunya (2)
  • Coronaviruses (2)
  • Ebola (2)
  • EU Reference Laboratory for Public Health on Vector-borne Viral Pathogens (EURL-PH-VBV) (2)
  • Legionella (Legionellosis) (2)
  • Lifestyle Monitor: public health monitoring of lifestyle and health in the Netherlands (2)
  • Livestock farming and health (2)
  • PFAS (2)
  • Probit functions (2)
  • Radiation and radioactivity (2)
  • Rubber tiles (2)
  • Salmonella (2)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology and Surveillance (2)
  • Zika Virus (2)
  • Arboviruses (1)
  • Bestrijdingsmiddelen (1)
  • Chickenpox (1)
  • Contact (1)
  • Corona (1)
  • Digitale zorg (1)
  • Doetinchem Cohort Study (1)
  • Dutch Food Composition Database (NEVO) (1)
  • Environmental and industrial safety (1)
  • Exploratory study into environmental pollution and health on Bonaire (1)
  • Fipronil in eggs (1)
  • Global Health Security (1)
  • Health promotion (1)
  • Healthy City (1)
  • Heel prick (1)
  • Hepatitis A (1)
  • Hepatitis B (1)
  • HPV - Humaan Papillomavirus (1)
  • Lifestyle interventions (1)
  • Marburg virus disease (1)
  • Meldpunt en Expertisecentrum Bijwerkingen Implantaten (1)
  • MERS (1)
  • NoroNet (1)
  • One Health (1)
  • Perinatal screening (1)
  • Pharmaceuticals in the environment (1)
  • Polio (1)
  • Rotavirus (1)
  • Scabies (1)
  • Shigellosis (1)
  • Shingles (1)
  • Synthetic biology (1)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for Smallpox Vaccine (1)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre for the Family of International Classifications (FIC) (1)
  • WHO Collaborating Centre on Life Course and Health (1)

20 search results

You searched for these word(s): risk assessment
  • RIVM maintains advisory: avoid eating home-produced eggs in Zuid-Holland Zuid and Altena Municipality

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/rivm-maintains-advisory-avoid-eating-private-eggs-in-zuid-holland-zuid-and-altena-municipality

    … found to contain high levels of PFAS, as revealed by the risk assessment conducted by RIVM at 31 locations in the … 15 eggs per week. What Are the Health Implications? The risk assessment compares the estimated PFAS intake from …

    Publication date: 05-30-2024
  • Information about cervical cancer screening

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/information-materials

    … We use the population screening to detect if someone is at risk of cervical cancer. Early detection can prevent … who take part in the population screening are at a lower risk of cervical cancer. If you are between 30 and 60 years …

    Publication date: 02-10-2015
  • Proposed European PFAS ban officially submitted

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/proposed-european-pfas-ban-officially-submitted

    … both the use and production of PFAS in order to reduce the risks these substances pose to humans and the environment. … Afterwards, two ECHA scientific committees – the Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) and the Socio-Economic Assessment …

    Publication date: 01-13-2023
  • Nitrogen and PFAS suddenly big societal issues in the Netherlands

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/newsletter/content/2020/issue1/nitrogen-pfas-in-NL

    … in the vicinity of those areas. It includes an appropriate assessment of adverse impacts on Natura 2000 areas, which is … perspective for action that, on the one hand, controls the risks to man and the environment and, on the other hand, …

    Publication date: 01-14-2020
  • Next milestone in universal PFAS restriction process completed

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/next-milestone-in-universal-pfas-restriction-process-completed

    … derogations or with time-unlimited derogations and risk reduction measures of similar efficiencies, where … as appropriate. The comments enabled to improve the assessment of the initially evaluated uses and the … by the restriction process. The Scientific Committees for Risk Assessment (RAC) and Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC) of …

    Publication date: 08-26-2025
  • Information about cervical cancer screening (Turkish)

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/information-in-multiple-languages/turkish

    … Bu nüfus taramasıyla, kişinin rahim ağzı kanseri riski altında olup olmadığını değerlendiriyoruz.Erken …

    Publication date: 12-12-2022
  • Temporary background values for PFAS in Dutch soil

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/temporary-background-values-for-pfas-in-dutch-soil

    … If the soil meets these temporary background values, the risks to people and the ecosystem are negligible. Data and … human body. RIVM investigates the health and environmental risks of PFAS. …

    Publication date: 12-03-2019
  • PFAS in sea foam along Dutch coast

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/pfas-in-sea-foam-along-dutch-coast

    … compared to seawater. Insufficient information for complete risk assessment It is as yet unclear what the high concentrations … scenarios to determine sea foam exposure, and there are no risk limit values for PFAS in seawater or sea foam. …

    Publication date: 12-20-2023
  • PFAS levels in drinking water from river water need to be brought down

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/pfas-levels-in-drinking-water-from-river-water-need-to-be-brought-down

    … this being harmful to their health. This value is used in risk assessments and does not have legal status. New scientific …

    Publication date: 10-24-2022
  • Programme characteristics of the cervical cancer screening programme

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/professionals/programme-characteristics

    … screening laboratories for the presence of hrHPV (high risk Human Papillomavirus). If HPV is found, a cytological assessment is carried out to determine whether there are …

    Publication date: 12-01-2022
  • RIVM will calculate temporary background value for PFAS in soil

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/rivm-will-calculate-temporary-background-value-for-pfas-in-soil

    … In July of this year, RIVM has calculated the risk limits for PFAS in soil and dredging spoil. At concentrations below these risk limits, the risks to people and the environment are acceptable. As a …

    Publication date: 10-30-2019
  • HPV

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/hpv

    … in labia, penis, anus, mouth and/or throat. When I am at risk for HPV-related cancer? There are many different types of HPV. Some have a high risk of causing cancer. If you have had a long-term infection with a high-risk type of the virus, you could develop cancer. This often …

    Publication date: 06-02-2014
  • Frequently asked questions cervical cancer screening for professionals

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/professionals/faq

    … HPV screening detects serious abnormalities earlier and the risk of cervical cancer is reduced for longer after a … Yes, the 10-year interval for screening is safe. The risk of developing cervical cancer or its precursors is … lead to cervical cancer after a persistent infection: high-risk HPV (hrHPV). In the case of hrHPV types 16 and 18, the …

    Publication date: 12-05-2022
  • Innovation in the cervical cancer screening programme

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/professionals/innovation

    … referrals could be more specific, taking into account the risk profile of a client. Accessibility could be improved by … unnecessary anxiety, unnecessary healthcare costs and the risk of unnecessary treatment. In order to reduce the number … it has been decided to change the referral policy based on risk stratification. The following changes are involved: Use …

    Publication date: 12-06-2022
  • Referral schedule for the cervical cancer screening programme

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/professionals/referral-schedule

    … hrHPV types 16 and 18 (HPV 16/18) with a clearly increased risk and the other hrHPV types (HPV other) with a moderately increased risk. The referral policy remains the same for participants …

    Publication date: 12-01-2022
  • Information for professionals about the cervical cancer screening programme

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/professionals

    … at the age of 30, 35, 40, 50 and 60. People who are more at risk of cervical cancer, for example due to a previous HPV … is mostly caused by a persistent infection with a high-risk type of the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV is a …

    Publication date: 12-01-2022
  • PFAS restriction proposal

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/pfas/restriction-proposal

    … is a ban on the use of these substances to limit the risks to people and the environment. The proposal focuses on …

    Publication date: 11-19-2020
  • Invitation schedule for the cervical cancer screening programme

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/cervical-cancer-screening-programme/professionals/invitation-schedule

    … HPV screening detects severe abnormalities earlier and the risk of cervical cancer is reduced for longer after a …

    Publication date: 12-01-2022
  • Many young women postpone cervical cancer screening: only 3 in 10 take quick action

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/many-young-women-postpone-cervical-cancer-screening-only-3-in-10-take-quick-action

    … and 200 people die from this form of cancer every year. The risk of cervical cancer is highest among women aged 30 to 45 …

    Publication date: 01-24-2025
  • Current information about PFAS

    https://www.rivm.nl/en/pfas/current-information

    … both the use and production of PFAS in order to reduce the risks these substances pose to humans and the environment. …

    Publication date: 05-11-2020

Service

  • Contact
  • Information for the press
  • Working for RIVM
  • Complaints
  • Submitting WOO requests to RIVM
  • Doing business with RIVM
  • Huisregels sociale media

About this site

  • Cookies
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Disclaimer and copyright
  • Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website archive

Languages

  • English
  • Nederlands

Follow us

  • RIVM Newsletters
  • RSS feed
  • X Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon