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As part of the Third National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES 111), the Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Division of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control, will be analyzing human blood samples for trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds. These data will give an indication of the frequency of occurrence and background levels of these compounds in the general population. 

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The Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Division of the Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control, is developing methods for the analysis of bromomethane and other volatile organic compounds in blood. These methods use purge and trap methodology and magnetic mass spectrometry which gives detection limits in the low parts per trillion range. 

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The NTP Executive Committee contains members from ATSDR, CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission), US-EPA, US-FDA (Food and Drug Administration), NCEH (National Center for Environmental Health)/CDC, NCI/NIH, NIH, NIOSH/CDC, and OSHA (Occupational Safety Health Administration). 

Dr. Gold has served on the Panel of Expert Reviewers for the National Toxicology Program and on the boards of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and the Annapolis Center she was a member of the Harvard Risk Management Group and is at present a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is among the most frequently cited scientists in her field and was awarded the Annapolis Center Prize for risk communication. 

To address its task, the committee held four public sessions in which it heard presentations from officials of EPA s Office of Research and Development CDC s National Center for Environmental Health, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health the Washington State Department of Health the International Life Sciences biomonitoring committee the American Chemistry Council Crop-Life America the Association of Public Health Laboratories Environmental Defense and academe. 

Center for Environmental Health Flemish biomonitoring program for surveillance of environmental health Program will include development of an early warning system based on biomarker measurements in people living in Flanders. Study population includes 1,600 people (European Commission 2004). 

With regard to blood samples, for some analyses, such as dioxins, large samples of blood (70 mL or more) are required, and collecting this volume may eliminate some susceptible subpopulations, such as children and pregnant women (Metcalf and Orloff 2004). CDC s National Center for Environmental Health does not collect blood samples on children less than 6 years old except to analyze lead and cadmium (and in the future mercury), because it is difficult to collect the necessary blood volume (J. Osterloh, CDC, personal commun., July 27, 2005). 

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