How can the process of validation, acceptance and use of animal-free innovative approaches to assess the safety of chemicals be facilitated?

One in 5 tick bites occurs in an urban area. Although most tick bites occur in the countryside, many people are bitten in urban areas as well.

For the first time, a person in the Netherlands has fallen ill after a bite from a tick carrying the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE virus).

The Interspecies website which helps researchers to reduce and refine the use of laboratory animals is transferred to the 3Rs database Programme of the 3Rs-Centre Utrecht Life Sciences (ULS) of Utr

In 2014, 53% of people between the ages of 12 and 80 in the Netherlands participate in some type of sport weekly.