Human Biomonitoring Data in Health Risk Assessments Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals between 2016 and 2021 : Confronting Reality after a Preliminary Review
Bizjak, Tine ; Capodiferro, Marco ; Deepika, Deepika ; Dinçkol, Öykü ; Dzhedzheia, Vazha ; Lopez-Suarez, Lorena ; Petridis, Ioannis ; Runkel, Agneta A. LU
; Schultz, Dayna R.
and Kontić, Branko
(2022)
In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
19(6).
p.1-18
- Abstract
Human biomonitoring (HBM) is a rapidly developing field that is emphasized as an important approach for the assessment of health risks. However, its value for health risk assessment (HRA) remains to be clarified. We performed a review of publications concerned with applications of HBM in the assessment of health risks. The selection of publications for this review was limited by the search engines used (only PubMed and Scopus) and a timeframe of the last five years. The review focused on the clarity of 10 HRA elements, which influence the quality of HRA. We show that the usage of HBM data in HRA is limited and unclear. Primarily, the key HRA elements are not consistently applied or followed when using HBM in such assessments, and... (More)
Human biomonitoring (HBM) is a rapidly developing field that is emphasized as an important approach for the assessment of health risks. However, its value for health risk assessment (HRA) remains to be clarified. We performed a review of publications concerned with applications of HBM in the assessment of health risks. The selection of publications for this review was limited by the search engines used (only PubMed and Scopus) and a timeframe of the last five years. The review focused on the clarity of 10 HRA elements, which influence the quality of HRA. We show that the usage of HBM data in HRA is limited and unclear. Primarily, the key HRA elements are not consistently applied or followed when using HBM in such assessments, and secondly, there are inconsistencies regarding the understanding of fundamental risk analysis principles and good practices in risk analysis. Our recommendations are as follows: (i) potential usage of HBM data in HRA should not be non-critically overestimated but rather limited and aligned to a specific value for exposure assessment or for the interpretation of health damage; (ii) improvements to HRA approaches, using HBM information or not, are needed and should strictly follow theoretical foundations of risk analysis.
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- author
- Bizjak, Tine
; Capodiferro, Marco
; Deepika, Deepika
; Dinçkol, Öykü
; Dzhedzheia, Vazha
; Lopez-Suarez, Lorena
; Petridis, Ioannis
; Runkel, Agneta A.
LU
; Schultz, Dayna R.
and Kontić, Branko
- publishing date
- 2022-03-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Exposure assessment, Health risk assessment, Human biomonitoring, Review
- in
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 6
- article number
- 3362
- pages
- 1 - 18
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85126450094
- pmid:35329058
- ISSN
- 1661-7827
- DOI
- 10.3390/ijerph19063362
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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- dca2dea9-983e-4ed8-8992-d9d2f81f6bfe
- date added to LUP
- 2025-02-18 17:24:55
- date last changed
- 2025-07-09 05:19:46
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