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Measuring Personal Environmental Exposures: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
Measuring Personal Environmental Exposures: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
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PERSONAL BIOLOGICAL TESTING Increased access to biological testing, such as the various types of genetic testing or metabolomics to learn about body chemistry, facilitate the analysis of biological samples and the generation of personal data related to health, disease, and environmental exposures. Mass spectrometry is the technique most often used to profile the human metabolome (small molecule metabolic products)
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Similarly, Snyder pointed out that a person with a genetic predisposition to Parkinson's disease should perhaps be counseled not to work with pesticides because of the association between exposure to pesticides and the disease. SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES The workshop included detailed discussions on two of the growing number of personal sensors available today that can enable people to learn more about their exposure to several agents, including chemicals, air particulate matter, and noise in their daily lives: AirCasting and Speck.
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The project is expanding to other libraries across the country. TRANSFORMING ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE SCIENCE The increasing use of personal biological testing and personal sensors by both trained professionals and members of the public has helped to create "an opportunity to transform exposure science to advance human and ecosystem health," according to the National Academies' 2012 report Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy.
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Seto pointed out that the quality assurance plans developed for environmental monitoring projects may help with generating information about best practices related to quality checks. Linking Data with Health Effects Lindsay Stanek of EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory's Computational Exposure Division observed that a nother challenge related to the use of new tools for collecting personal data on environmental exposures is trying to 4
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Actionable Data or Merely More Information Duncan, Snyder, and Wong-Parodi presented examples in which an individual may take action on the basis of a par ticular result or read out from biological testing or a sensor technology, respectively. Duncan and Snyder suggested actions such as a person mitigating their exposure to a chemical suspected of being linked to a particular pathway, whereas Wong-Parodi and others at Carnegie Mellon University suggested solutions to reduce particulate matter exposure during cooking and other household exposures.
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After all, he pointed out, the most cost-effective public health interventions involve environmental policy changes. Data Communication A fifth challenge is to effectively communicate data on individual- or community-based environmental exposures, captured by sensor technologies, Fischhoff warned.
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However, at present, personal sensors and personal biomedical testing are mostly marketed to healthy people of high socioeconomic status, observed Seto and Briss. Many workshop attendees commented on the value of expanding the availability of these sensors to socioeconomically disadvantaged and historically underserved communities.
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Perry observed that many more people are going to play a role in collecting personal exposure data in the coming years and that both competition and collaboration among researchers, sensor developers, and community members will play a role in helping the enterprise move forward. In the process, the scientific and policy communities can do their part to help ensure that sensing devices and information from personalized testing are providing results that are simultaneously valid and usable, precise and representative, and accessible and relevant, Perry said.
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The statements made are those of the rapporteurs or individual meeting participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all meeting participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. PLANNING COMMITTEE ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ENGAGEMENT APPROACHES TO ENHANCE RESEARCH ON AND COMMUNICATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEATH DATA: A WORKSHOP David Duncan, Freelance Journalist; Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University; Gary Miller, Emory University; M elissa Perry, George Washington University; Lindsay Stanek, U.S.
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