Laboratoire National de Santé

Health-related interpretation of human biomonitoring results – new and updated human biomonitoring guidance values from PARC and HBM4EU

During the first three years of the Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC), we derived health-based human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for 11 substances to enable the direct health-related interpretation of human biomonitoring (HBM) results. HBM-...

European joint programme HBM4EU - Bridging science and policy: experiences and lessons learned from the key partners in the scientific steering of the initiative

The European Joint Programme HBM4EU was established to address politically relevant questions on chemical risks to public health through a targeted human biomonitoring research programme. Running from 2017 to 2022, it was co-financed by the EU's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovati...

Genomic Insights into the Population Structure and Antimicrobial Resistance of the Most Prevalent Human-Associated Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Serotypes in Romania

This study aimed to identify circulating lineages of the most prevalent human-associated Salmonella serotypes identified through routine surveillance in Romania between 2023 and 2025 and assess their role in the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A total of 271 isolates (2...