Hygiena 2023, 68(1):19-33 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1827

Human biomonitoring in the Czech Republic. Overview of the results obtained in the framework of the Population Health Monitoring System since 1994

Milena Černá1, 2, Andrea Krsková1, Anna Pinkr Grafnetterová1, Vladimíra Puklová1, Alena Fialová1, Marek Malý1, Růžena Kubínová1
1 Státní zdravotní ústav, Praha, Česká republika
2 Univerzita Karlova, 3. lékařská fakulta, Praha, Česká republika

The article summarises the results of Czech Human Biomonitoring over a period of three decades. Human biomonitoring in the Czech Republic was commenced at the National Institute of Public Health, Prague, in 1994 as part of the Environmental Health Monitoring System and was later linked to European and worldwide professional activities in this area. During the course of this project the whole range of organic and inorganic xenobiotics and essential substances was monitored in the blood, urine and hair of the adult and child populations, in the breast milk of breastfeeding women and in other, less common matrices. The results have provided valuable long-term time series that show how established preventive measures can work in practice and how they correspond to decreasing population exposure. Results can also be used to verify whether or not, and how quickly, can individuals be exposed to newly used chemical substances. Results of human biological monitoring are important for public health professionals to establish reference values, to provide comparison with health limits, to assess health risks, for health policy purposes and international comparison. Appropriately processed results can serve to inform and educate the public about human population burden by chemical substances in the environment. Long-term experience in the field of human biomonitoring enables experts of the National Institute of Public Health to participate in many foreign projects focused on monitoring the exposure of various population groups to chemical substances from the environment.

Keywords: human biomonitoring, exposure to chemical compounds, reference values, breast milk, blood

Received: December 2022; Accepted: March 21, 2023; Published: March 31, 2023  Show citation

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Černá M, Krsková A, Grafnetterová AP, Puklová V, Fialová A, Malý M, Kubínová R. Human biomonitoring in the Czech Republic. Overview of the results obtained in the framework of the Population Health Monitoring System since 1994. Hygiena. 2023;68(1):19-33. doi: 10.21101/hygiena.a1827.
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