Documents

Defence against bioterrorism

This report examines health-related issues concerning the risk of a terrorist attack employing biological agents. At the request ...

Advisory report | 14-06-2001

Elektromagnetische velden: Jaarbericht 2001 - Electromagnetic fields: Annual Update 2001

Present scientific data do not indicate that exposure to environmental electromagnetic fields – such as generated by power lines ...

Advisory report | 29-05-2001

Population Screening Act: National breast cancer screening programme (2)

This publication is not available in English.

Advisory report | 21-05-2001

Fytosterolen / Phytosterols

Advisory report | 16-05-2001

Health risks of exposure to depleted uranium

Not surprisingly, the use of ammunition containing depleted uranium (DU) in Kosovo and elsewhere in the Balkans has provoked ...

Advisory report | 16-05-2001

HIV surveillance in the Netherlands

The number of people infected with HIV in the Netherlands is estimated to be between twelve and eighteen thousand. The current ...

Advisory report | 15-05-2001

Prenatal Screening: Down’s syndrome, neural tube defects, routine-ultrasonography

The present advisory report, produced by a Health Council committee, is a response to questions which the Minister of Health, ...

Advisory report | 07-05-2001

Advisory Report Pain Research

On 19 April 2000 the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports requested the Advisory Council on Health Research (RGO) to issue an ...

Advisory report | 15-04-2001

Local environmental health concerns: risk communication, exposure assessment and cluster investigation

Concerned citizens are increasingly contacting local authorities to ask whether seemingly unusually large numbers of similar ...

Advisory report | 03-04-2001

Manganese and its compounds; Evaluation of the effects on reproduction, recommendations for classific

On request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands evaluates the effects on the ...

Advisory report | 30-03-2001