[Revision of public health safety measures]

RESTRUCTURING PUBLIC HEALTH: A reorganization of administrative management has been set up by the french law 98-535, in order to improve the vigilance of the population health and the safety control of products for human use. MANDATORY DECLARATION OF ACTIVITIES: In addition to the declaration of some infectious diseases, the activities in the field of human products, cells and tissues, have also now to be declared. SAFETY CONTROL OF FOOD: For the first time the control of human products, as well as that of food are placed under the rule of a single law.