Centre for Health Protection (RIVM-GZB), National Institute for Public Health & Environment

The Centre for Health Protection focuses on the impact and risks to population health of chemical and biological agents,devoting special attention to medical technology, medicines, tobacco, consumer products, diet and food components, as well as their interaction with life style factors. These impacts and risks are identified, analyzed, qualified and where possible quantified. The Centre for Health Protection as a wide expertise, with a focus on: Medical products and medical technology, Pharmaceuticals, Nanotoxicology/nanomedicines, Reproduction and immune toxicology, Carcinogenesis and mutagenesis, Tobacco and drugs, Determinants of chronic diseases, Healthy ageing, Alternatives to animal testing, Genomics, Vaccines Quality Testing.