Exposure and Risk Assessment

IMM projects in this area

Exposure assessment and health effects

• Exposure and skin uptake of cobalt
• A harmonized approach for human biomonitoring on the European level: COPHES and DEMOCOPHES twin projects
• Exposure and risk assessment of persistent pollutants in food and water 
• Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in early childhood and health effects in childhood and adolescence
• Gender differences in carcinogenesis
• Health risk assessment of Endocrine Disrupters – focus on bisphenol A and development of methodology 
• Toxicity of (nano)particles with a focus on genome instability
• Quantitative health risk assessment in historical contaminated areas –exposure and risk characterization

• Occupational air pollution during pregnancy and health effects in children

• Occupational exposure to chemicals and breast cancer

• Occupational exposure to particles and cardiovascular disease

• Consumers, cosmetics and skin sensitizers
• Cobalt nanoparticles - a risk of uptake and allergy?

• Metal exposure early in life and children’s health and development

• The role of nutrition in early life development

• Exposure assessment of water and food pollutants in Sweden 

• Exposure to welding particles and effects on the cardiovascular system

• Chimney sweeping and risk of cancer

• Risk assessment of benefits and risks and multidisciplinary risks

• WHO Environmental noise guidelines for the European Region

Risk assessment methodology

• Mathematical dose-effect analysis

• EuroMix - Assessing the health risks of combined human exposure to multiple food-related toxic substances

• Systematic review of nonmonotonic dose-responses of substances for human risk assessment

• Using text mining to aid cancer risk assessment