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Overview of air quality measures aiming to reduce emissions from road traffic and mitigate health impact in Belgium
pollution levels in Belgium, a considerable part of the population is still exposed to concentration levels exceeding the WHO Air Quality Guidelines. Therefore, identifying and quantifying the effectiveness ...
Urinary nicotine metabolites: usefulness as biomarkers of smoking status
https://www.sciensano.be/en/biblio/urinary-nicotine-metabolites-usefulness-biomarkers-smoking-status
living in Romania, Portugal, Belgium and Slovenia. Methods Urine samples from mothers (aged up to 45 years) who participated in the EU project DEMOCOPHES (LIFE09 / ENV / BE /00410) were used. The ...
A biomonitoring survey of the residents and the rescue workers for acrylonitrile after the train disaster in Wetteren (Belgium)
Wetteren WHO worker Workers Abstract: presentation at the 6th EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE — Health in Europe: are we there yet? Learning from the past, building the future Health Topics: Health and ...
Scientific opinion on the risk for public health related to the presence of mercury and methylmercury in food
EFSA was asked by the European Commission to consider new developments regarding inorganic mercury and methylmercury toxicity and evaluate whether the Joint FAO / WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives ...
Scientific opinion on the presence of dioxins (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like PCBs (DL-PCBs) in commercially available foods for infants and young children
and young children of 0.1 pgWHO2005- TEQ /g w.w. for dioxins and 0.2 pg WHO2005- TEQ /g w.w. for the sum of dioxins and DL- PCB s.Therefore, the CONTAM Panel concluded that, based on the available data, ...
Lessons learned from Chernobyl and Fukushima on thyroid cancer screening and recommendations in case of a future nuclear accident.
affected populations; thyroid health monitoring should however be made available to persons who request it (regardless of whether they are at increased risk or not), accompanied with appropriate information ...
The influence of lifestyle choices (food, alcohol, smoking) on the blood concentration of Cd, Pb and Hg of newborns, adolescents and adults from Wallonia
smoking status, but also age and gender show effects. Participants from all age categories who report fish consumption 4 days prior sampling (including mothers of newborns) show a median blood Hg level ...