Environ Health Toxicol.
2012 ;27(1):e2012019.
International Symposia on Integrated Exposure Assessment for Hazardous Materials
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- 1Department of Public Health, Dankook University Graduate School, Cheonan, Korea. limjiae@gmail.com
- 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Dankook University College of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES
On September 2, 2010 and November 25, 2011, the Korean Research Project on Integrated Exposure Assessment to Hazardous Materials for Food Safety (KRIEFS) organized two international symposia in Seoul, Korea. KRIEFS, established by the Korean Food and Drug Administration in March 2010, envisioned these international symposia as means to obtain advanced experiences from other countries and to reflect on and refine the KRIEFS's survey design and methods.
METHODS
For the first symposium KRIEFS invited human biomonitoring (HBM) experts from Germany, the US, and Canada. The visiting HBM experts shared the details of their national studies while the KRIEFS discussed study design, as well as the methods, results and policymaking processes of the KRIEFS project. The second symposium was organized to share the survey design and results on endocrine disruptors from Taiwan.
RESULTS
The Speaker from Germany introduced the German Environmental Survey and shared their experiences in HBM design, such as the process of developing reference values, and discussed the new HBM plan in Germany and the European Union. The Representative from Canada shared insights from national HBM approach. In the case of the US, the speaker focused on risk communication with subjects in epidemiological studies. In the second international symposium, the speaker shared the experience of endocrine disruptors'studies from Taiwan.
CONCLUSIONS
KRIEFS was able to better understand previous nationwide HBM research designs, policy making process, and risk communication with research subjects.
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