Human Biomonitoring
Human Biomonitoring is an effective tool to assess
human exposure to environmental pollutants and potential
health effects of such pollutants and it is an essential
element in a strategy aiming to integrate health and
environment. Biomarker data are considered more relevant
for risk assessment than are extrapolations from chemical
concentrations in soil, water, air or food.
Human Biomonitoring has been defined in the preparation
of the Environment and Health Action Plan as "monitoring
activities in human beings, using biomarkers, that focus
on environmental exposures, diseases and/or disorders
and genetic susceptibility, and their potential relationships".
In the framework of Action 3 of the European Environment
and Health Action Plan 2004-2010, the European Commission
committed “to develop in close cooperation
with the Member States a coherent approach to Human
Biomonitoring in Europe and to launch a EU Pilot Project
to test out the feasibility of such a coordinated approach”.
The European Commission, supported by a multidisciplinary
working group of Member States representatives (Implementation
Group on Human Biomonitoring) and by an Expert team
to Support BIOmonitoring (ESBIO) is preparing
an EU Pilot Project, to be launched by the end of 2006.
Further details can be consulted on the
HBM website |
Related Events
27th January 2006 :
Implementation Group meeting + ESBIO working meeting
in Brussels
14th February 2006 :
OECD policy dialogue on exposure assessment in Paris
20-21 March 2006:
ESBIO Conference, Lisbon : "State of the art of
Human Biomonitoring in Europe"
31 March 2006 :
ESBIO Conference, Lodz , Poland : "Utility and
sensitivity of biomarkers"
19th May 2006 :
Implementation Group meeting + ESBIO working meeting
in Berlin
6-7 December 2006:
Workshop in Brussels : "Human Biomonitoring: ethics
and data interpretation" |
