Honey represents a natural product made of nectar, secretions of livings parts of plants or excretions of insects, which Apis millifera bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances and deposit in honeycombs. Honey composition depends on the floral origin of nectar, climate...

"From public protests to scientific discourse": this is the slogan underlying the commitment of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità for environmental governance in Nigeria supported by the aware and active participation of local communities. The research collaboration studies the exposure to toxic...

Melanomacrophage centres (MMCs) are aggregates of pigmented phagocytes, characterized by heterogeneous inclusions and located in hemolymphopoietic organs of various non-mammalian vertebrates [1]. In the present work, data from published and ongoing studies on MMCs were analysed in order to get...

Purpose of this document is to provide correct indoor air monitoring strategies in schools, both for proper measurement, acquisition, verification and evaluation of chemical and biological pollutants, and to support Individual specifications and collective prevention protocols, with the aim of...

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are one of the best-known consequences of the eutrophication of natural waters, for example lakes and rivers, and represent a serious threat to water quality, human health, economic development, ecological balance, landscape aesthetics and social stability. Due to rapid...

The internal and external cleaning of a sprayer are useful and important operations both to preserve the integrity and functionality of the equipment and to reduce the risks of environmental pollution avoiding at the same time the contamination of the operator. Three tests were carried out aimed...

The chemical contamination of the environment is a considerably serious problem. In sharing their living environment with pets, human are exposed to many of the same environmental contaminants as their animals, and the other way around. Pets are serving as involuntary sentinels of the widespread...

Purpose of this document is to provide correct indoor air monitoring strategies in healthcare facilities, both for proper measurement, acquisition, verification and evaluation of chemical and biological pollutants, and to support Individual specifications and collective prevention protocols, with...

Due to its toxicity and bioaccumulation properties, mercury continues to pose a serious threat to the health of ecosystems and people globally. The contamination of sediments in marine-coastal and lagoon waters in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, resulting from various sources of contamination,...

The descriptive study of the health profile of residents in the municipality of Porto Torres (Sardinia, Italy) has been carried out among the capacity building activities planned by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (the National Institute of Health in Italy) to improve the capabilities of technical ...