2. The Session was opened by Mrs. Erica Terpstra, State Secretary of Health, Welfare and Sport. She welcomed the Committee to The Hague, and gave an overview of the changes in pesticide uses during the past 30 years influencing the work of the Committee since it had convened for the first time in 1966. She mentioned especially the growing role of risk analysis in establishing MRLs, and the progress which was recently made in this area following various Consultations which were held on this subject. In the coming years, acute dietary exposure would be an important item on the agendas of both JMPR and CCPR.
