Biomonitoring TWG
Biomonitoring TWG. Is continuing its work up to end of 2006 - Implementation Group (IG) for action 3 Reimbursements for travel costs and consultant Core group enlarged and ad hoc members Work program and mandate to be decided Table to select substance and matrix for pilot project
Biomonitoring TWG
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Biomonitoring TWG • Is continuing its work up to end of 2006 - Implementation Group (IG) for action 3 • Reimbursements for travel costs and consultant • Core group enlarged and ad hoc members • Work program and mandate to be decided • Table to select substance and matrix for pilot project • Coordination with biomonitoring under REACH? Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN
Human biomonotoring Program of tomorrows session • Introduction (Action 3 of Action Plan) • Oral presentations (6) • Posters (31) • Discussion Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN
8 questions to be addressed in presentations and discussion • Contribution of your biomonitoring data to policy measures relevant environ. health ? • What was done with biomonitoring data resulting from your project ? • How were biomonitoring data integrated with health monitoring data and environmental monitoring data ? • How were results communicated to study participants, decision makers, public, etc.? • Expertise, experiences, protocols etc. shared with other research/survey groups ? • What are the next steps ? • Recommended objectives for an EU approach for biomonitoring? • What experiences should be taken into consideration for a European Pilotproject? Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN
Oral Presentations Biomonitoring • 1. Germany: “German Environmental Survey (GerES)” by Kerstin Becker • 2. Belgium: “Flemish biomonitoring: from pilot study (1999) to biomonitoring campaign (2002-2006) and follow-up” by Greet Schoeters • 3. Portugal: “Biomonitoring activities in Portugal” by M. Fatima Reis • 4. Poland: “Biological monitoring of environmental exposure to lead in children: an example of Poland” by Marek Jakubowski • 5. Croatia: “Collaboration between cancer & miscarriage registers with biomonitoring databases in identifying populations at health risk as the basis for policymaking” by Alexandra Fucic • 6. WHO: “Breast milk surveys” by R van Leeuwen. Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN
Posters • Environmental exposure • Biomarkers • Mercury and cadmium • Air quality • WWF and IBFAN • Reproductive health, children , adolescents and environmental health well represented Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN
Discussion It is up to us to voice the right questions! Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN