Acrylamide

On request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Health Council of the Netherlands evaluates the effects on the reproduction of substances at the workplace. The Health Council’s Committee for Compounds Toxic to Reproduction recommends to classify compounds toxic to reproduction according to the Directive 93/21/EEC of the European Union. In the present report the committee has reviewed acrylamide.

Committee

• BJ Blaauboer, Toxicologist; Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht, chairman
• JN van den Anker, Professor of pediatrics and pharmacology; The George Washington University Medical Center, USA
• AM Bongers, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Den Haag, advisor
• HFP Joosten, Toxicologist; NV Organon, Department of Toxicology and Drug Disposition, Oss
• D Lindhout, Professor of medical genetics, paediatrician; UMC, Utrecht
• JHJ Copius Peereboom-Stegeman, Toxicologist; Catholic University Nijmegen, Nijmegen
• AH Piersma, Reproductive toxicologist; National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• N Roeleveld, Epidemiologist; Catholic University Nijmegen, Nijmegen
• DH Waalkens-Berendsen, Reproductive toxicologist; TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist
• PJJM Weterings, Toxicologist; Weterings Consultancy BV, Rosmalen
• ASAM van der Burght, Health Council of the Netherlands, Den Haag, scientific secretary