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?

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Human biomonotoring Program of tomorrows
session

• Introduction (Action 3 of Action Plan)
• Oral presentations (6)
• Posters (31)
• Discussion

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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?

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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.

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Posters

• Environmental exposure
• Biomarkers
• Mercury and cadmium
• Air quality
• WWF and IBFAN
• Reproductive health, children , adolescents and
  environmental health well represented

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Discussion

• It is up to us to voice the right questions!