Human Biomonitoring (HB), the process for determining whether and to what extent
chemical substances penetrated our bodies, serves as a useful tool to quantify human …

Current approaches for the assessment of environmental and human health risks due to
exposure to chemical substances have served their purpose reasonably well. Nevertheless …

Children are commonly exposed to second-hand smoke (SHS) in the domestic environment
or inside vehicles of smokers. Unfortunately, prenatal tobacco smoke (PTS) exposure is still …

Background Harmonized data describing simultaneous exposure to a large number of
environmental contaminants in-utero and during childhood is currently very limited …

Human biomonitoring (HBM) is identifed as a tool that can serve the chemicals agenda by
providing authorities with a more comprehensive view of actual exposure of the population …

Background For Europe as a whole, data on internal exposure to environmental chemicals
do not yet exist. Characterization of the internal individual chemical environment is expected …

This opinion describes the assessment of the risks to public health associated with
bisphenol A (BPA) exposure. Exposure was assessed for various groups of the human …

The toxicity of methylmercury (MeHg) in humans is well established and the main source of
exposure is via the consumption of large marine fish and mammals. Of particular concern …

Background Immune suppression may be a critical effect associated with exposure to
perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), as indicated by recent data on vaccine antibody …

Lead is a ubiquitous pollutant with well-known effects on human health. As there is no lower
toxicological threshold for lead in blood and since data gaps on lead exposure still exist in …