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Valeurs Guide Air Intérieur
17/10/2017 —
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Indoor air purifiers: their effectiveness remains to be demonstrated

Today ANSES is publishing the results of its analysis of air purification techniques based on the principles of plasma, catalysis and photocatalysis, ozone generation and ionisation. Over the last few years, equipment has appeared on the market that claims to have indoor air purification properties, along with "depolluting" building and decorating materials designed to trap or destroy many microbiological and chemical contaminants of indoor air. In its expert appraisal, the Agency emphasises that the available data were unable to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety in real conditions of use of the indoor air purification devices based on these technologies. It also reiterates that to reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants, priority should be given to limiting emissions at the source, and aerating and ventilating the indoor areas of buildings.
Perturbateurs Endocriniens
09/10/2017 —
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ANSES conducts expert appraisals on several chemicals suspected of being endocrine disruptors

Under the terms of the National Endocrine Disruptor Strategy (SNPE), ANSES has published the results of its assessment of five chemical substances suspected of being endocrine disruptors. The Agency has also published its latest work concerning the assessment of the health risks associated with exposure to Category 2 reprotoxic substances and/or endocrine disruptors present in consumer products. These three reports reflect the current state of knowledge on the uses, the sources of exposure and the toxicity of several substances of the class of polybrominated compounds. The Agency is currently continuing its work by assessing the five substances listed in its 2017 work programme in the framework of the SNPE.
Abeilles
02/10/2017 —
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ANSES and the Technical and Scientific Institute for Beekeeping and Pollination sign a partnership agreement as part of the phytopharmacovigilance scheme

ANSES and the Technical and Scientific Institute for Beekeeping and Pollination (ITSAP) have signed a partnership agreement to strengthen their collaboration in the area of phytopharmacovigilance. This three-year agreement will help better identify the adverse effects of plant protection products on bee health through the rapid detection of signals, and therefore improve the measures taken to prevent or limit the risks associated with the use of these products.
21/09/2017 —
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ANSES and the CODA-CERVA have renewed their partnership for three more years

ANSES and the Belgian Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (CODA-CERVA) have renewed the framework agreement that has linked them since 2009, as well as the agreement concerning scientific collaboration on foot and mouth disease and bluetongue. The two agencies will thus continue their numerous joint activities, particularly diagnostic and reference activities relating to the pathogens responsible for epizootic diseases and zoonoses, and to chemical agents likely to contaminate the food chain, as well as in the field of analytical research.
Egoutiers
20/09/2017 —
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New recommendations for improving the working conditions of sewage workers

In June 2016, ANSES published an expert appraisal on the specific exposures and health risks to which sewage workers are subjected, concluding that there are long-term health effects associated with the working conditions in sewers. Today the Agency is presenting additional results from a campaign to measure biological agents potentially found in the air in the Paris sewers, carried out by the Ile-de-France regional health insurance fund (CRAMIF). The results of this campaign confirm that the drainage system in which the sewage workers operate on a daily basis is an unhealthy environment, a finding that had already been noted in the analysis of data on exposure to chemical pollutants published in the opinion of June 2016. The Agency is therefore recommending a series of technical and organisational measures to reduce worker exposure.
14/09/2017 —
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Signature of a memorandum of understanding for the creation of the APIVALE Scientific Interest Group on the exploitation of organic effluent

At the International Livestock Trade Fair (SPACE) on Tuesday 12 September, Inra, Irstea, ANSES, Agrocampus Ouest, the University of Southern Brittany and the University of Rennes 1 signed a memorandum of understanding for the creation of a Scientific Interest Group to be known as APIVALE. The partners of the Scientific Interest Group share the ambition of a renewed and more systemic approach for the exploitation of organic effluent in their region.
Œufs
21/08/2017 —
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Assessment of the risks associated with the consumption of eggs and egg products contaminated with fipronil [updated on 21 August 2017]

ANSES has now published its health risk assessment concerning the ingestion of eggs contaminated with fipronil, the active substance in insecticides and acaricides fraudulently used in holdings in Belgium and the Netherlands. In the light of the available data on the toxicity of this substance and the concentrations of fipronil observed in the farms concerned in Belgium and the Netherlands, and taking into account French consumption habits, the risk of the occurrence of health effects appears to be very low. Concerning processed foods containing eggs, the Agency has also calculated a limit not to be exceeded for exposure to remain below the acute toxicological reference value (ARfD) if products containing contaminated eggs were consumed. This limit is 0.23 mg of fipronil per kg of food...
Valeurs Limite Exposition Professionnelle
26/07/2017 —
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ANSES publishes new recommendations for occupational exposure limits

Since 2005, ANSES has been responsible for the scientific appraisals required for the establishment of Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs) based on health criteria. In the first half of 2017, ANSES published several collective expert appraisal reports for products as part of this permanent mission. The opinion it is publishing today presents the Agency's recommendations regarding the establishment of atmospheric limit values for trichloroethylene, di-n-butylphthalate (DnBP), butylbenzyl-phthalate (BBzP), 2-ethoxyethanol (EGEE), 2-ethoxyethyl acetate (EGEEA) and n-butanol. Since February 2017, the Agency has also proposed Biological Limit Values for hexavalent chromium, acrylamide, di-n-butylphthalate and butylbenzyl-phthalate.
Compléments Alimentaires Nutrivigilance
25/07/2017 —
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Beware of confusion between the medication Lytos (sodium clodronate tetrahydrate) and the food supplement Lithos (potassium and magnesium citrate)

A risk of confusion between the medication Lytos and the food supplement Lithos has been reported when dispensing these products in pharmacies. The French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM) and the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) would like to inform healthcare professionals and patients about this risk of error.

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