Most of the developmental effects that populations experience are believed to be linked with their exposure scenario and/or their susceptibility to these exposures. In environmental public health, most studies have focused on exposures to environmental chemicals but certainly other environmental factors and susceptibility factors must be considered. Our laboratory assesses exposure to environme...

Emerging contaminants are distributed in to the environment from various anthropogenic activities. These Emerging contaminants (ECs) are mainly composed of products, such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products (PCPs), surfactants, plasticizers, pesticides etc. The present conventional system of waste treatment are not designed to treat these contaminants. Complex structure of these pollutan...

Biomonitoring—the science of measuring environmental chemicals in human blood, urine, and other tissues—made another modest advance with the 10 December 2009 release of the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report includes data on 75 substances not in the preceding report, for a total of 212 reported ...

the aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the association of crystalline silica aerosols exposure with malondialdehyde in blood serum and urinary neopterin and explore their potential as biomarkers of their external exposure. nonsmoking and healthy male glass sandblasters and control population were randomly selected for this study. all groups were monitored for their personal exposu...

Biomonitoring of pollutants and their metabolites and derivatives using biofluids provides new opportunities for spatiotemporal assessment of human risks to environmental exposures. Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have been used widely in industry and pose significant environmental concerns due to their stability and bioaccumulation in humans and animals. However, current methods for extraction...

There are numerous programs ongoing to analyze environmental exposure of humans to xenobiotic chemicals via biomonitoring measurements (e.g.: EU ESBIO, COPHES; US CDC NHANES; Canadian Health Measures Survey). The goal of these projects is to determine relative trends in exposure to chemicals, across time and subpopulations. Due to the lack of data, there is often little information correlating ...

The “European Human Biomonitoring Initiative” (HBM4EU) derives human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for the general population (HBM-GVGenPop) and/or occupationally exposed adults (HBM-GVWorker) several priority substances and substance groups as identified by policy makers, scientists stakeholders at EU national level, including bisphenol A (BPA). exposure to BPA is widespread of parti...

The use of human samples to assess environmental exposure and uptake of chemicals is more than an analytical exercise and requires consideration of the utility and interpretation of data as well as due consideration of ethical issues. These aspects are inextricably linked.In 2004 the EC expressed its commitment to the development of a harmonised approach to human biomonitoring (HBM) by includin...

In this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), Schecter et al. (2011) report levels of poly brominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in butter purchased from retail stores. Although the investigators found prevalent levels of PBDEs in butter, they report that one sample had inordinately high levels of octa-, nona-, and deca-BDE con-geners, likely from its highly contaminated...