Biomonitoring
Subtitle: a best practices report for state legislators
By: by Scott Hendrick and Doug Farquhar
Contributors: Farquhar, Doug; National Conference of State Legislatures
Publisher: National Conference of State Legislatures
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Denver, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781581245968; 1978581245968
Subjects: Communities; Biological monitoring; Public health
Notes: "The Forum for America's Ideas."

"July 2010."

"Biomonitoring detects and measures trace concentrations of chemicals that actually are present in ... human fluids and tissues.... Today, it is possible to reliablly measure more than 300 chemicals in people ... [B]iomonitoring provides a scientific foundation upon which sound policy decisions can be built. Biomonitoring provides health departments with the tools to investigate clusters of illnesses..."--Introd. p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [39]).