Adverse reactions to vaccinations in the national immunization programme 1997-2001

The RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment) Laboratory for Clinical Vaccine Research registers and evaluates reports of (suspected) adverse events following immunisations administered under the National Vaccination Programme (RVP). Since 1983 the Health Council’s Committee on adverse reactions following immunisations under the National Vaccination Programme (henceforth referred to as “the Committee”) has been reviewing this particular RIVM task by reassessing the adverse events reports. The purpose of this reassessment is to form as accurate an opinion as possible about reports of adverse events under the RVP.