Biology seminar April 28

Benjamin C. Blount, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Biomonitoring Lab, will speak about Using Biomonitoring to Evaluate Tap Water as a Source of Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, at 4 p .m. on Thursday, April 28 in 214 Moulton Hall.

Biomonitoring is the direct measurement of people's exposure to toxic substances by measuring the substances or their metabolites in human specimens, such as blood or urine. Biomonitoring measurements provide health-relevant assessments of exposure because they indicate the combined amount of the chemical that actually gets into people from all environmental sources like air, soil, water, dust and food.

Biomonitoring helps determine the types of environmental chemicals that people have been exposed to, the amount of those chemicals that actually gets into their bodies and the concentrations of chemicals in their bodies that may be related to adverse health effects.

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