Biomonitoring-based indicators of exposure to chemical pollutants: report of a meeting: Catania, Italy, 19–20 April 2012

Overview

The WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH) is coordinating the development of standardized protocols for human biomonitoring- based indicators. This document is a report of a technical meeting which involved 38 biomonitoring experts from 15 Member States. Meeting participants evaluated a large number of chemicals, and defined a list of high priority biomarkers for further evaluation, methodology development and pilot testing in a region with chemical pollution problems.