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To evaluate experimental and epidemiological data, the quality of the data must meet certain requirements. This is true for effects parameters as well as for dose estimates. A complete treatment of the subject related to quality control in the assessment of environmental pollution is very extensive and impossible to set forth in a brief presentation such as this. Therefore, I will limit discussion to quality control aspects for analysis of two trace metals, lead and cadmium, in blood and kidney. The presentation will be based primarily on results from a global UNEP/WHO project on assessment of exposure to lead and cadmium through biological monitoring. This project which was recently concluded was coordinated by the Karolinska Institute (Department of Environmetal Hygiene) and the National (Swedish) Institute of Environmental Medicine (Vahter, 1982; Friberg and Vahter, 1983). The project was carried out within the framework of UNEP’s Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) and was initiated in 1978 on the basis of recommendations from a UNEP/WHO meeting of a Government Expert Group on Health-related Monitoring.
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Friberg, L. (1983). Quality Control in Laboratories Testing for Environmental Pollution. In: Clarkson, T.W., Nordberg, G.F., Sager, P.R. (eds) Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity of Metals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9346-1_36
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