TY - JOUR
T1 - Interpreting biomonitoring data
T2 - Introducing the international human biomonitoring (i-HBM) working group's health-based guidance value (HB2GV) dashboard
AU - Nakayama, Shoji F.
AU - St-Amand, Annie
AU - Pollock, Tyler
AU - Apel, Petra
AU - Bamai, Yu Ait
AU - Barr, Dana Boyd
AU - Bessems, Jos
AU - Calafat, Antonia M.
AU - Castaño, Argelia
AU - Covaci, Adrian
AU - Duca, Radu Corneliu
AU - Faure, Sarah
AU - Galea, Karen S.
AU - Hays, Sean
AU - Hopf, Nancy B.
AU - Ito, Yuki
AU - Jeddi, Maryam Zare
AU - Kolossa-Gehring, Marike
AU - Kumar, Eva
AU - LaKind, Judy S.
AU - López, Marta Esteban
AU - Louro, Henriqueta
AU - Macey, Kristin
AU - Makris, Konstantinos C.
AU - Melnyk, Lisa
AU - Murawski, Aline
AU - Naiman, Josh
AU - Nassif, Julianne
AU - Noisel, Nolwenn
AU - Poddalgoda, Devika
AU - Quirós-Alcalá, Lesliam
AU - Rafiee, Ata
AU - Rambaud, Loïc
AU - Silva, Maria João
AU - Ueyama, Jun
AU - Verner, Marc Andre
AU - Waras, Maisarah Nasution
AU - Werry, Kate
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors of this paper are members of the ISES i-HBM Working Group. The i-HBM is chaired by the National Institute of Environmental Health, Japan and co-chaired by Health Canada, and the group is comprised of an international assemblage with expertise in various aspects of biomonitoring (i-HBM members are co-authors of this paper or included in the Acknowledgments section). We would like to thank other Working Group members for their insights: Jillian Ashley-Martin, Ana Canas, André Conrad, Scott Hancock, Carin Huset, Tomohiko Isobe, Jung-Taek Kwon, Jueun Lee, Marc A. Nascarella, Andy Nong, Susana Pedraza-Diaz, Eva Sugeng, Natalie von Götz, Jiyoung Yoo.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Human biomonitoring (HBM) data measured in specific contexts or populations provide information for comparing population exposures. There are numerous health-based biomonitoring guidance values, but to locate these values, interested parties need to seek them out individually from publications, governmental reports, websites and other sources. Until now, there has been no central, international repository for this information. Thus, a tool is needed to help researchers, public health professionals, risk assessors, and regulatory decision makers to quickly locate relevant values on numerous environmental chemicals. A free, on-line repository for international health-based guidance values to facilitate the interpretation of HBM data is now available. The repository is referred to as the “Human Biomonitoring Health-Based Guidance Value (HB2GV) Dashboard”. The Dashboard represents the efforts of the International Human Biomonitoring Working Group (i-HBM), affiliated with the International Society of Exposure Science. The i-HBM's mission is to promote the use of population-level HBM data to inform public health decision-making by developing harmonized resources to facilitate the interpretation of HBM data in a health-based context. This paper describes the methods used to compile the human biomonitoring health-based guidance values, how the values can be accessed and used, and caveats with using the Dashboard for interpreting HBM data. To our knowledge, the HB2GV Dashboard is the first open-access, curated database of HBM guidance values developed for use in interpreting HBM data. This new resource can assist global HBM data users such as risk assessors, risk managers and biomonitoring programs with a readily available compilation of guidance values.
AB - Human biomonitoring (HBM) data measured in specific contexts or populations provide information for comparing population exposures. There are numerous health-based biomonitoring guidance values, but to locate these values, interested parties need to seek them out individually from publications, governmental reports, websites and other sources. Until now, there has been no central, international repository for this information. Thus, a tool is needed to help researchers, public health professionals, risk assessors, and regulatory decision makers to quickly locate relevant values on numerous environmental chemicals. A free, on-line repository for international health-based guidance values to facilitate the interpretation of HBM data is now available. The repository is referred to as the “Human Biomonitoring Health-Based Guidance Value (HB2GV) Dashboard”. The Dashboard represents the efforts of the International Human Biomonitoring Working Group (i-HBM), affiliated with the International Society of Exposure Science. The i-HBM's mission is to promote the use of population-level HBM data to inform public health decision-making by developing harmonized resources to facilitate the interpretation of HBM data in a health-based context. This paper describes the methods used to compile the human biomonitoring health-based guidance values, how the values can be accessed and used, and caveats with using the Dashboard for interpreting HBM data. To our knowledge, the HB2GV Dashboard is the first open-access, curated database of HBM guidance values developed for use in interpreting HBM data. This new resource can assist global HBM data users such as risk assessors, risk managers and biomonitoring programs with a readily available compilation of guidance values.
KW - Biomonitoring
KW - Biomonitoring equivalents
KW - Guidance values
KW - International society of exposure science
KW - Reference values
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.114046
DO - 10.1016/j.ijheh.2022.114046
M3 - Article
C2 - 36356350
AN - SCOPUS:85141442164
SN - 1438-4639
VL - 247
JO - International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
JF - International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
M1 - 114046
ER -