The healthcare and youth inspectorate supervises institutions that work with body materials, such as blood, cells, tissues, bone, corneas and organs. We focus on the entire tissue chain: from removing body material from a donor to placing it back in the patient. The starting point of our supervision is an overview of risks in this tissue chain.
Use body material
Healthcare uses blood, cells, tissues and organs in different ways. For example, for organ transplants, blood transfusions and fertility treatments. Tissues such as bone tissue and corneas are also used in patients after donation.
Risks
Incorrect use of body material poses risks to the safety of patients. The inspectorate therefore supervises institutions that work with body material that is reused in humans. This way, quality and safety remain paramount. A series of 18 inspection visits to beauty salons has produced a moderately positive picture of the quality and safety of care. No major abuses were found. Reserved procedures, such as administering fillers and botox using a needle, were done by a doctor in all cases.
There are certainly improvements possible. This mainly concerns preconditions for good care, such as establishing protocols and drawing up a complaints procedure. The media and the house of representatives regularly pay attention to the quality and safety of the care provided in beauty salons. Renowned doctors express their concerns and speak of being thieves, victims tell their stories and mps demand stricter rules.
Beauty salons have been under the supervision of the inspectorate since 2016. The fact is that so far the inspectorate has received relatively few reports from professionals and/or citizens about calamities or serious damage as a result of treatments in beauty salons.
To get a better picture of the sector, the inspectorate decided to conduct a somewhat broader investigation. The inspectorate visited 18 salons based on an assessment framework. The individual reports have already been published, today the inspectorate is publishing a fact sheet with a summary of the results.
The inspectorate sees that the beauty salons visited do not always realize that they fall under the supervision of the igj. As a result, they are not always aware of the applicable laws. The inspectorate has been discussing this with the trade association anbos for some time. The inspectorate also explicitly brings this publication to the attention of beauty salons. The inspection also had the national institute for public health and the environment (rivm) investigate 2 devices used in beauty salons: the hyaluron pen and the mesogun.