HÄMImpact - Develop and impact the environmental biomonitoring
HÄMImpact is a project where KI collaborates with Lund University, the Swedish National Food Agency and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
About the project
With the HÄMImpact study, we aim to improve and develop the monitoring of environmental toxins by implementing a new methodology, so called microsampling, of multiple chemicals. Furthermore, HÄMImpact aims to evaluate and recommend how best to analyse exposures, including mixtures of chemicals, and to develop processing of new and existing data for monitoring environmental toxins. This will be done by:
- evaluating new methods for self-sampling of small amounts of blood for measuring organic and inorganic environmental toxins and implementing these in ongoing studies for biological monitoring within the HÄMI program
- evaluating new statistical tools for analyzing exposure to different types of environmental toxins and mixed exposure
- developing new methods for data processing on new and existing data in HÄMI that will lead to increased availability of reports and data
The project contributes to developing and strengthening HÄMI, which in turn will lead to improved data for following up on the Swedish and European environmental goals.
News
New and improved HÄMI database – now with more aggregated statistics
Within the Health-related Environmental Monitoring coordinated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, data is collected on how people are exposed to environmental factors that can affect health, such as air pollution, chemicals or metals. IMM is the national data host for HÄMI data and makes reports and data from the surveys available. The database has now been updated and offers more aggregated statistics, making it easier to produce knowledge for analyses, reports and decisions. Read more on the data host IMM website or the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's website about HÄMI (in Swedish).