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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

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Biomonitoring TWG

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  1. 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

  2. Human biomonotoring Program of tomorrows session • Introduction (Action 3 of Action Plan) • Oral presentations (6) • Posters (31) • Discussion Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Discussion It is up to us to voice the right questions! Maryse Lehners InitiativLiewensufank IBFAN

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