National Health Laboratories

The Medicines Agency largely substitutes for the National Health Laboratory (Laboratoire National de la Sante) and to a large extent the Pharmacy and Medicines Directorate, which were supplemented by decree 93-697 of 26 March 1993. 

Mid-Continent Ecology Division Laboratory National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory... 

National Collection of Type Cultures, Central Public Health Laboratory, London N. W. 9, England... 

As part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES 111), the Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Division of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control, will be analyzing human blood samples for trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds. These data will give an indication of the frequency of occurrence and background levels of these compounds in the general population. 

Since 1990, responsibility for containing the public pharmaceutical bill in Spain has fallen to a variety of instruments, none of which has proved particularly effective at cost containment, as can be seen from Table 6.1. These instruments have included stricter control over the National Health Service (NHS) (Sistema Nacional de Salud or SNS) budget for pharmaceuticals, modifications to the co-payment rates for certain drugs for chronic diseases, the exclusion of certain drugs from public financing (negative lists) and agreements with laboratories and pharmacies.1... 

Canada Minister of National Health and Welfare, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Office of Biosafety. Material Safety Data Sheet-Infectious Substances Clostridium botulinum. January 23, 2001. 

Disclaimer This chapter has been reviewed by the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Agency, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. 

ASTER. 1995. ASTER Ecotoxicity Profile -Hexane. Duluth, MN US. EPA Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Mid-Continent Ecology Division. 

The standard stocks of the positive and negative serum were obtained from the State Research Institute of Biotechnology and Strains of Microorganisms Control of the Ministry of Agroindustrial Policy of Ukraine as well as from the National Reference Laboratory for EBI (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany). 

The ECOTOXicology database is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife. ECOTOX integrates three toxicology effects databases AQUIRE (aquatic life), PHYTOTOX (terrestrial plants), and TERRETOX (terrestrial wildlife). These databases were created by the U.S. EPA, Office of Research and Development (ORD), and the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Mid-Continent Ecology Division... 

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