Dutch TV programme Radar featured an item on air quality, devoting considerable attention to the research being carried out at IRAS using Air View cars and citizen scientists.
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In Exposome-NL, we work together with citizens to measure and analyse air quality data. An article on the often-unseen power of these citizen scientists was recently published in Vetscience, the magazine of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Utrecht University.
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The public debate on the safety of pesticides is moving from the laboratory to the courtroom. The NRC wrote an article on the cases so far and professor Roel Vermeulen elaborated on the research being done.
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The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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