Human Exposure Assessment An Introduction

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Subject:  Human Exposure Assessment An Introduction
 Date:     Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:09:08 -0500
From:      Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
          Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation 

cc:    Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov

New WHO Textbook Released by The Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden:

Human Exposure Assessment An Introduction

Marika Berglund 
Carl-Gustaf Elinder 
Lars Järup

PDF (1,2MB)
http://www.imm.ki.se/PDF/HEAboken.pdf

This book provides an introduction to the basic principles and methods of human exposure assessment. The textbook is intended for use in training courses, but also includes some fundamental information for the interested reader.

The purpose of the book is to present basic knowledge about human exposure assessment and how it relates to other scientific specialities involved in public health protection. The overall aim of human exposure assessment is to promote and protect public health. It comprises all the methods available to describe, estimate and determine, qualitatively and quantitatively, people's contact with hazardous agents.

Updated by Anna Persson, 2002-01-29.

Institute of Environmental Medicine 
Box 210, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. 
Tel: +46-8-728 64 00, Fax: +46-8-33 69 81 
E-mail: info@imm.ki.se 


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