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Influence of radiofrequency telecommunication signals on children’s brains
Does mobile telephone use lead to health damage in children? In previous advisory reports, the Health Council of the Netherlands ...
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Vaccination against seasonal influenza
The influenza virus has been causing human death and disease for more than 500 years, and possibly even more than 1000 years. ...
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Population Screening Act: additional MRI scan for women with high breast density
On 28 September 2011, the Council's Population Screening Act Committee (Commissie WBO) advised the Minister of Health, Welfare ...
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Health risks caused by plant protection products in agriculture: the use of research among residents
At the request of the State Secretaries of Infrastructure & the Environment and of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, ...
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Antibiotics in food animal production and resistant bacteria in humans
Bacteria are becoming increasingly more resistant to antibiotics. As a result, the number of usable drugs is decreasing, while no ...
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Q fever: risk of transmission via blood or other body material
Q fever is a zoonosis – an infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans – caused by the bacterium Coxiella ...
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Nanomaterials in waste
Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials are having a large and growing impact on society. For example, all kinds of ...
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Grain dust. Health-based recommended occupational exposure limit
At the request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands sets health-based ...
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Aerosols of mineral oils and metalworking fluids (containing mineral oils)
In this advisory report, the Council’s Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS) discusses the consequences of ...
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Treating the effects of child abuse
Child abuse has always been with us and it takes many different forms. It is estimated that more than 100,000 children are abused ...