title: The activity of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in the field of existing chemicals.
abstract: The Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Health Institute, ISS) is one of the main Italian research institutes and a scientific body of the Italian National Health Service. At present, the ISS includes twenty laboratories, six technical services, an administrative division for personnel affairs and a library. The staff includes about 1400 people, plus over 600 external collaborators. The ISS international activities in the field of existing chemicals includes the participation in a wide number of programmes of the World Health Organization, the European Union, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and other organizations. At a national level, the ISS is particularly active in the field of risks connected with chemicals in the environment and in food, and constantly provides advice to the Ministry of Health and often to other ministries in the definition of laws and regulations which include technical-scientific aspects related to the existing chemicals. The ISS research activity in the field of chemical substances represents a significant part of the Environment research project, which includes more than one hundred research lines, and also of other research projects.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Igiene Ambientale, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Zapponi
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D007391:International Cooperation; D007558:Italy; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D012106:Research
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations