Human biomonitoring is a term for colleting and evaluating data concerning the pollution of environment and its influence on human body. In the CR it is being conducted since 1994 and its main aim is to protect people's health. The most commonly observed pollutants are heavy metals, PCBs, dioxins, chlorinated pesticides and many others. These pollutants find their way to the environment mainly due to people's industrial and agricultural activities. Smoking is still a current issue that needs to be addressed and it is an activity (voluntarily or in case of passive smoking involuntarily practiced) that causes health damage. Due to human biomonitoring, or more precisely due to principles which are now its foundation, many shortcomings of former industrial activities were discovered. Among others, it leads to understanding "Itai-itai" disease and discovering the cause of events in Japanese bay "Minamata". Today, the industrial (but also other) activities worldwide are at a high level of development. Many chemicals are being used and the environment is still being threatened. Based on those facts it is necessary to continually monitor the presence of toxic (or potentially toxic) substances in the environment and to put forth an extra effort to prevent exposure to these substances. Human biomonitoring is also...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:281604 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Weissová, Iveta |
| Contributors | Černá, Milena |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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