Human biomonitoring for environmental chemicals
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Human biomonitoring for environmental chemicals
National Academies Press, c2006
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Biomonitoring—a method for measuring amounts of toxic chemicals in human tissues—is a valuable tool for studying potentially harmful environmental chemicals. Biomonitoring data have been used to confirm exposures to chemicals and validate public health policies. For example, population biomonitoring data showing high blood lead concentrations resulted in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulatory reduction of lead in gasoline; biomonitoring data confirmed a resultant drop in blood lead concentrations. Despite recent advances, the science needed to understand the implications of the biomonitoring data for human health is still in its nascent stages. Use of the data also raises communication and ethical challenges. In response to a congressional request, EPA asked the National Research Council to address those challenges in an independent study. Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Chemicals provides a framework for improving the use of biomonitoring data including developing and using biomarkers (measures of exposure), research to improve the interpretation of data, ways to communicate findings to the public, and a review of ethical issues.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Summary
1 Introduction
2 U.S. and International Biomonitoring Efforts
3 Framework to Characterize Biomarkers and Uses of Biomonitoring
4 Considerations in the Design of Biomonitoring Studies
5 Interpretation of Biomonitoring Results
6 Communicating Results, Interpretations, and Uses of Biomonitoring
Data to Nonscientists
7 Research Agenda
Appendix A Biographic Information on the Committee on Human
Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants
Appendix B Additional Case Studies Used to Exemplify Interpretative
Approaches Described in Chapter 5
Appendix C PBPK Modeling
Glossary
Table of Contents
- 1 Front Matter
- 2 Summary
- 3 1 Introduction
- 4 2 U.S. and International Biomonitoring Efforts
- 5 3 Framework to Characterize Biomarkers and Uses of Biomonitoring
- 6 4 Considerations in the Design of Biomonitoring Studies
- 7 5 Interpretation of Biomonitoring Results
- 8 6 Communicating Results, Interpretations, and Uses of Biomonitoring Data to Nonscientists
- 9 7 Research Agenda
- 10 Appendix A Biographic Information on the Committee on Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants
- 11 Appendix B Additional Case Studies Used to Exemplify Interpretative Approaches Described in Chapter 5
- 12 Appendix C PBPK Modeling
- 13 Glossary
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