Exposure to combinations of substances: a system for assessing health risks

Every day, people are exposed to all kinds of substances, through swallowing and inhalation among other things. In this advisory report, a Committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands considers the possible adverse health effects of this type of combined exposure.

Committee

• WRF Notten, toxicologist; TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, chairman
• JH Beijnen, professor of bioanalysis; University of Utrecht
• WFJPM ten Berge, toxicologist; DSM, Heerlen
• BJ Blaauboer, toxicologist; Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht
• VJ Feron, professor emeritus of biological toxicology; University of Utrecht
• JP Groten, toxicologist; TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist
• JLM Hermens, toxicologist; Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht
• PHM Lohman, professor of radiation genetics and chemical mutagenesis; University of Leiden
• HME Miedema, psychologist; TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden
• G de Mik, toxicologist; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven
• WF Passchier, Health Council of the Netherlands, The Hague, consultant
• MN Pieters, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, consultant
• GMH Swaen, epidemiologist; University of Maastricht
• RA Woutersen, toxicologist/pathologist; TNO Nutrition and Food Research, Zeist
• JA van Zorge, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, The Hague, consultant
• PW van Vliet, Health Council of the Netherlands, The Hague, secretary