The mission of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP) is to provide scientific support to the development and implementation of EU policies related to health and consumer protection. The IHCP carries out research to improve the understanding of potential health risks posed by chemicals, contaminants released from packaging contact with food materials and consumer products. In this context we plan to purchase a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer 400 MHz which will be used for characterisation of chemicals, and for new activities on NIAS (non-intentionally added substances) and in particular for studying migration of siloxanes in foods from food contact materials. It is also foreseen to operate characterisation of chemical structure of designer drugs at 400 MHz in order to be in agreement and comparable with the descriptions of molecular structure of drugs of EMCDDA–Europol joint reports and SWGDRUG drugs monographs.