PACEMweb is an online tool designed to estimate the aggregate exposure to substances in personal care products and household cleaning products. New knowledge or insights may lead to model changes and updates of the tool. Adjustments to the model to a new version will be clearly communicated via the website. The actual version is mentioned in the footer of the PACEMweb page.
The application of PACEMweb, including the evaluation and selection of data, requires expert knowledge on consumer exposure assessment. When used as a starting point for risk assessment, adequate interpretation of the results of the model calculation is required. RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment is not responsible for the consequences of the operational use of PACEMweb.
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Changes in version 1.3
Support for children of 0–3 years
In 2025, a survey was conducted by RIVM to obtain data on PCPs applied to young children in the Netherlands. This data was analysed, converted and included in PACEMweb. The tool has been updated to support exposure and risk assessments for small children, taking into account the age-dependency of the body weight and the skin surface area of children. It also allows the assessor to make a refined age-dependency analysis by custom stratification of the population in specific age groups with granularity as small as one month.
See the documentation for more details.