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JRC researchers have led the development of international guidance to support the use of physiologically based kinetic models in chemical risk...
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The JRC and the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) have collaborated in the production of the first certified...
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The JRC developed a screening method able to detect banned flavour substances in cigarettes. This will support the implementation of the ban of...
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Measurements of isotope ratios are performed on uranium bearing micro-particles collected in nuclear facilities during the regular inspections by...
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The East Africa Agriculture Warning Explorer is based on near-real-time Earth observation and weather information and provides automatic ten-day...
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The quality of government and institutions is a crucial factor for socio-economic prosperity. A recent JRC analysis by Barbero et al. (2021) using EU...
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The March edition of the JRC's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) assessment is now available at:Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural...
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During the European Commission’s Second Annual Forum on Endocrine Disruptors, the JRC presented the findings of the recently completed Fitness Check...
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A joint JRC-IAEA research project on the determination of picogram amounts of uranium in micrometre-sized particles for nuclear safeguards and...
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The JRC has demonstrated the feasibility of using a combination of Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectroscopy and pattern recognition...
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In the immediate aftermath of disasters, emergency managers need reliable information to organise rescue activities and allocate resources across the...
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According to the March issue of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe, which was published today, after a winter full of sharply...
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Today the JRC publishes a new factsheet containing 2020 figures of colorectal cancer burden for EU-27 countries, to mark colorectal cancer awareness...
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The JRC developed a new global food emission database (EDGAR-FOOD) estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the years 1990-2015. It is the first...
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A new JRC publication in Science Advances provides unique information on tropical moist forest cover disturbances through an unprecedented dataset of...