Dutch health bodies pull out of tobacco-dominated monitoring groups

The Netherlands is poised to pull out of two committees which advise on measuring nicotine, tar and carbon-monoxide in cigarettes and electronic cigarettes, Trouw said on Monday. The paper said public health institute RIVM and the Dutch food and product safety board NVWA consider that tobacco firms are too influential on the committees and they should step down. The RIVM represents the health ministry on one Dutch advisory committee in which eight of the 10 members have tobacco interests. This,...