To follow time trends in exposure to environmental chemicals, three successive campaigns
of the Flemish Environment and Health Study (FLEHS) have recruited and sampled in total …

Care as a legal recognition of environmental health. The Decree1 made it mandatory for the
Flemish government to perform an HBM program, which is an important policy signal of …

The German Environmental Specimen Bank for Human Tissues (ESBHum) as part of the
German Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) focuses on documenting and assessing …

Abstract The Flemish Environment and Health Study (FLEHS) collects information on
internal exposure to a broad range of environmental chemicals in the general population in …

In 1999, a campaign of the Flemish Ministry of Health, Belgium was set up to assess
pollutant concentrations and related health effect biomarkers in humans living in two regions …

The findings of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in humans and the environment
all over the world have raised concerns and public awareness for this group of man-made …

The Integrated Exposure Assessment Survey (INES) was started in the year 2005.
Altogether 50 healthy adults living in Bavaria, Germany, were included into the study …

Humans are exposed to a broad variety of man-made chemicals. Human biomonitoring
(HBM) data reveal the individual body burden irrespective of sources and routes of uptake. A …

The German Environmental Surveys (GerESs) are nationwide population studies, which
have repeatedly been carried out in Germany since the mid-1980s. The subjects were …

As one of the core elements of the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) a
human biomonitoring (HBM) survey was conducted in 23 countries to generate EU-wide …