For fiscal year 2009, the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program received $2,652,487.
The California Department of Public Health set forth the following goals to build or expand its biomonitoring program:
- Expanding current laboratory capability and capacity to assess human exposures to environmental chemicals of greatest concern to Californians;
- Providing laboratory support for targeted public health and exposure investigations, epidemiologic investigations, and population-based biomonitoring surveillance;
- Conducting targeted exposure investigations in collaboration with communities and stakeholder groups;
- Assessing the effectiveness of state public health actions to reduce exposures over time to specific chemicals of concern to Californians; and
- Integrating biomonitoring findings into the development and implementation of chemical use policy for California under the Green Chemistry Initiative.
For more information, contact:
Michael Lipsett, MD
Program Director
California Department of Public Health
850 Marina Bay Parkway
Building P, 3rd Floor
Richmond, CA 94804
510-620-3617
Michael.Lipsett@cdph.ca.gov
California Department of Public Health
Mark Davis
CDC Project Officer
770-488-7309
MDavis4@cdc.gov
California Department of Public Health
