Finding chemicals in bodily fluids is evidence of contact with them through inhalation, dermal exposure, or ingestion, and it typically leads to two questions that pose important challenges in ...

Human biomonitoring is a modern movement which aims to monitor and measure the exposure of humans to various environmental substances, natural or synthetic. Many techniques are used in this monitoring ...

In an ideal world, scientists would be able to monitor industrial chemicals found in people's bodies and predict the health implications from any level of exposure to the substances. At the same time, ...

From pesticides in our food to hormone disruptors in our kitchen pans, modern life is saturated with chemicals, exposing us to unknown long-term health impacts. One of the surest routes to quantifying ...

TORRANCE is home to a hazardous waste site; the Central Valley uses copious amounts of pesticides; and Marin County has an unusually high, and puzzling, rate of breast cancer. For scientists and ...

Human biomonitoring employs several techniques that can assess the level of environmental pollution a person has been exposed to and the affects of such contaminants on the human body. It can also be ...

The ability to measure chemicals in humans (often termed biomonitoring) is far outpacing the ability to reliably interpret these data for public health purposes, creating a major knowledge gap. Until ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 19, 2025) A new study from Argentina highlights the importance of applying the concept of the exposome (total exposures over lifetime) as a scientific framework, the value ...

The Minnesota Department of Health received part of a $5 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant to expand its biomonitoring program in September. The grant gives Minnesota and ...

As a result of occupational tick exposure, forestry and other outdoor workers are at higher risk than the general population of contracting tick-borne diseases such as lyme borreliosis or tick-borne ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Identifying, controlling, and preventing population exposures to potentially harmful ...