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You searched for these word(s): pestThe 'SPARK' project studying pesticides and Parkinson’s
https://www.rivm.nl/en/bestrijdingsmiddelen/spark… RIVM investigates the potential relation between the use of pesticides and Parkinson’s disease. RIVM is undertaking this … research, that there may be a link between exposure to pesticides and the development of neurodegenerative … do not to draw a conclusion on a potential relation between pesticides and Parkinson’s disease as the underlying studies …
Publication date: 06-11-2025Application in products
https://www.rivm.nl/en/nanotechnology/application-in-products… filters. They are also used in food, consumer products, pesticides, and medical products. Manufacturers must … Agriculture is increasingly using pesticides in nanoparticle form. These can either be small particles of an active substance or conventional pesticides encapsulated in nanoparticles. This approach …
Publication date: 07-19-2012ACROPOLIS
https://www.rivm.nl/en/international-projects/acropolis… framework for cumulative and aggregate risk assessment of pesticides, accessible for all actors involved in European … and for how long consumers are exposed to a mixture of pesticide residues on, for example, fruit and vegetables. … international risk assessment bodies have addressed each pesticide separately, but simultaneous exposure to residues …
Publication date: 05-16-2018NESTI-NEDI
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/nesti-nedi… Dutch dietary risk assessment models for pesticide authorisation purposes … revised the models for the calculation of dietary intake of pesticide residues at the maximum allowed levels in food for the purpose of pesticide authorisation. Actual levels in food are generally …
Publication date: 11-06-2018Monitoring programmes
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/fruit-and-vegetables/monitoring-programmes… Health (Inspectie W en V) monitors compliance with the Pesticide Act on behalf of the government. Every year the … and vegetables. These are examined for possible traces of pesticides, looking for a wide range of pesticides. The results of the analyses are compared to the …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Residue regulation
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/milk-products/residue-regulation… of foodstuffs. By subjecting veterinary drugs and pesticides to strict authorisation requirements, undesirable … Dairy cows can for example be exposed to traces of pesticides via the raw materials used in animal feeds, if … are used to treat the crop. When authorising these pesticides the possibility that they may end up in milk is …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Government policy
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/fruit-and-vegetables/government-policy… objective for the year 2000 is to halve the use of pesticides in comparison to 1984-1986. Other goals are to … less dependent on chemicals and to reduce the emission of pesticides into the environment. … Regulation on the use of pesticides It is up to the agricultural sector itself to …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Processing factors
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/processing-factors… (RIVM) manages a list of processing factors for (priority) pesticide residues in food. This list is used by the food … institutes for the calculation of dietary intake of certain pesticide residues. … LIST OF PROCESSING FACTORS TO EVALUATE PESTICIDE RESIDUES MEASURED IN THE NETHERLANDS Last update: …
Publication date: 07-01-2015EFSA-RIVM Partnership
https://www.rivm.nl/en/food-safety/efsa-rivm-partnership… in the European Union that have to assess the safety of pesticides. … assessing exposure of the European population to multiple pesticides A high level of food safety is of the utmost … public. In this perspective, it needs to be ensured that pesticides residues do not present an unacceptable risk to …
Publication date: 12-16-2015International perspective
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/fruit-and-vegetables/international-perspective… shows how they will implement the monitoring for traces of pesticides in the coming year. The plan is implemented after … compiled for the first time under the title Monitoring for Pesticide Residues in the European Union and Norway Report … fruit and vegetables to be tested and the choice of pesticides, the relationship between domestic and imported …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Monitoring programmes
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/animal-feed/monitoring-programmes… for chemical contaminants focuses on aflatoxin, cadmium, pesticides and Salmonella. …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Sustainable Food
https://www.rivm.nl/en/food-and-nutrition/sustainable-food… This is due to the use of fossil energy, fertilizers, pesticides, land and water and the depletion of soil . …
Publication date: 11-13-2017Meat (products)
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/meat-products… not contain traces of growth promoters, veterinary drugs, pesticides or environmental contaminants in quantities that …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Contaminants
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/meat-products/contaminants… no violations of the limits set in the Commodity Act or the Pesticide Act. A certain percentage of the fat samples had a …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Fruit and Vegetables
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/fruit-and-vegetables… sometimes be marred by reports about undesirable amounts of pesticides that may remain on the product. The effect that these pesticides can have on the environment is also a matter of … The aims of this plan include reducing the amount of pesticides used, reducing the degree to which they enter the …
Publication date: 07-01-2015News and activities WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-on-chemical-food-safety/current-news… on Food Additives (JECFA) and the joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR)). Participants learned how to … assessments of contaminants, toxicants and (residues of) pesticides and veterinary drugs in food. The courses were … in food (i.e. food additives, contaminants, nutrients, pesticide residues and residues of veterinary drugs). The …
Publication date: 03-11-2019Key publications WHO Collaborating Centre on Chemical Food Safety
https://www.rivm.nl/en/who-collaborating-centre-on-chemical-food-safety/key-publications… chronic dietary exposure to residues from compounds used as pesticide and veterinary drug . Critical Reviews in … in IESTI equations for short-term dietary exposure to pesticides from Australian and Codex perspective. Journal of … the outcome of the estimated short-term dietary exposure to pesticides. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, …
Publication date: 03-18-2019Monte Carlo Risk Assessment (MCRA)
https://www.rivm.nl/en/food-safety/chemicals-in-food/monte-carlo-risk-assessment-mcra… tool for carrying out exposure assessments of multiple pesticides and the findings were published in 2016. … probabilistic cumulative dietary exposure assessments of pesticides. In 2019, EFSA and RIVM, using the MCRA software, … conducted a cumulative dietary exposure assessment of pesticides that have acute effects on the nervous system. A …
Publication date: 12-12-2017Monitoring results
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/fruit-and-vegetables/monitoring-results… are found quite frequently in Dutch endives. These are both pesticides used to combat fungi. While pesticides based on these compounds may be used in diverse … The various types of cabbage seldom contain high levels of pesticides. In most varieties of cabbages there are no …
Publication date: 07-01-2015Government policy
https://www.rivm.nl/en/chemkap/fish/government-policy-0… fuels. In the past mercury compounds were often used in pesticides and in the production of chlorine. In moist … dangerous for the central nervous system. Very persistent pesticides In the 1950s and 1960s very persistent (poorly degradable) pesticides such as lindane and DDT were widely used. A …
Publication date: 07-01-2015