"We're developing new and better tests to allow us to do more biomonitoring, but so what?"

In any case, a new call will be published this month to submit proposals on human biomonitoring.

Biomonitoring of air pollutants can be passive or active.

Some permits also require aquatic biomonitoring of the receiving waterbody.

The Member States are now working together to coordinate a European approach to the issue of human biomonitoring.

They used methods they had been taught by the state's Stream Biomonitoring Unit in Troy.

In 2001, the CDC awarded planning grants to 33 states to assist in capacity building for expanding biomonitoring.

While aquatic biomonitoring is the most common form of such biomonitoring, any ecosystem can be studied in this manner.

Aquatic biomonitoring is the science of inferring the ecological condition of rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands by examining the organisms that live there.

Bioindication and biomonitoring of anthropogenic impact using invertebrates (Aranea, Odonata, Coleoptera).

Biomonitoring of Human Impacts in Freshwater Ecosystems: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Biomonitoring of Gulf of Patras, N. Peloponnesus, Greece.

Close attention is given to the safe and hygienic handling of chemicals, and biomonitoring of personnel is done to ensure that the protective systems are working satisfactorily.

Biomonitoring of phthalate metabolites has identified virtually ubiquitous human exposure internationally and for all age groups (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005).

Urinary o-cresol may be more reliable for the biomonitoring of toluene exposure because, unlike hippuric acid, o-cresol is not found at detectable levels in unexposed subjects.

She was the first legislator to ban sodas from schools, created the California Biomonitoring Program and created the California Department of Public Health.

Human biomonitoring offers the opportunity to analyze the actual internal levels of bodily substances from all potential routes of exposure at one time, which may contribute to improving risk assessments.

Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends (BEST) A program designed to identify and understand the effects of environmental contaminants on biological resources.

Studies on tobacco mediated carcinogenesis have encompassed chemical analysis, examination of the bioactivity of various tobacco products, transplacental carcinogenesis and biomonitoring of habitués.

Researchers from the German Human Biomonitoring Commission have also proposed a concept for deriving screening values similar to Biomonitoring Equivalents.

The California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program (CECBP), is administered by the California Department of Public Health, and was established by law in 2006.

With regard to human biomonitoring, the Commission regrets that the proposal submitted by the consortium of 24 Member States was not judged suitable for funding on the basis of the 7th Framework Programme.

In Germany, the German Environmental Survey (GerES) has been active since 1985, and in 1992 the Human Biomonitoring Commission of the German Federal Environment Agency was established.

Comparing biomonitoring data for a chemical with its Biomonitoring Equivalent provides a means for assessing whether population exposures to chemicals are within or above the levels considered safe by regulatory agencies.