Abstract
In 1980 the participants of a seminar organized by CEC, NIOSH and OSHA (Berlin et al., 1984) agreed upon the following definitions:
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Monitoring (in preventive health care) is “a systematic continuous or repetitive health related activity, designed to lead if necessary to corrective action”.
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Biological monitoring (BM) is “the measurement and assessment of workplace agents or their metabolites either in tissues, secreta excreta or any combination of these to evaluate exposure and health risk compared to an appropriate reference”.
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Jakubowski, M. (1993). Biological Monitoring of Exposure to Organic Compounds. In: Travis, C.C. (eds) Use of Biomarkers in Assessing Health and Environmental Impacts of Chemical Pollutants. NATO ASI Series, vol 250. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2052-2_10
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