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First steps toward harmonized human biomonitoring in Europe : demonstration pro...
Den Hond, Elly; Govarts, Eva; Willems, Hanny; Smolders, Roel; Casteleyn, Ludwine; Kolossa-Gehring, Marike; Schwedler, Gerda; Seiwert, MargareteBackground: 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 to enhance understanding of the environmental threats to health. Objectives: We developed and applied a harmonized protocol to collect comparable human biomonitoring data all over Europe. Methods: In 17 European countries, we measu...
Lessons learnt on recruitment and fieldwork from a pilot European human biomoni...
Fiddicke, Ulrike; Becker, Kerstin; Schwedler, Gerda; Seiwert, Margarete; Joas, Reinhard; Joas, Anke; Biot, Pierre; Aerts, Dominique; Casteleyn, LudwineWithin the European Environment and Health Action Plan an initiative to establish a coherent human biomonitoring approach in Europe was started. The project COPHES (COnsortium to Perform Human biomonitoring on a European Scale ) developed recommendations for a harmonized conduct of a human biomonitoring (HBM) survey which came into action as the pilot study DEMOCOPHES (DEMOnstration of a study to COordinate and...
First steps toward harmonized human biomonitoring in Europe : demonstration pro...
Den Hond, Elly; Govarts, Eva; Willems, Hanny; Smolders, Roel; Casteleyn, Ludwine; Kolossa-Gehring, Marike; Schwedler, Gerda; Seiwert, MargareteBackground: 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 to enhance understanding of the environmental threats to health. Objectives: We developed and applied a harmonized protocol to collect comparable human biomonitoring data all over Europe. Methods: In 17 European countries, we measu...
The European COPHES/DEMOCOPHES project : towards transnational comparability an...
Schindler, Birgit Karin; Esteban, Marta; Koch, Holger Martin; Castano, Argelia; Koslitz, Stephan; Cañas, Ana; Casteleyn, LudwineCOPHES/DEMOCOPHES has its origins in the European Environment and Health Action Plan of 2004 to “develop a coherent approach on human biomonitoring (HBM) in Europe”. Within this twin-project it was targeted to collect specimens from 120 mother–child-pairs in each of the 17 participating Europeancountries. These specimens were investigated for six biomarkers (mercury in hair; creatinine, cotinine,cadmium, phthal...
A systematic approach for designing a HBM Pilot Study for Europe
Becker, Kerstin; Seiwert, Margarete; Casteleyn, Ludwine; Joas, Reinhard; Joas, Anke; Biot, Pierre; Aerts, Dominique; Castano, Argelia; Esteban, MartaThe objective of COPHES (Consortium to Perform Human biomonitoring on a European Scale) was to develop a harmonised approach to conduct human biomonitoring on a Europeanscale. COPHES developed a systematic approach for designing and conducting a pilot study for an EU-wide cross-sectional human biomonitoring (HBM) study and for the implementation of the fieldwork procedures. The approach gave the basis for discu...