title: [Measuring and expert assessment of environmental health quality by the public health office].
abstract: The following points of emphasis were highlighted during a tour of the laboratory in which physicians participated who are interested in measurements in environmental hygiene (e.g. biomonitoring) and are therefore keen on installing such equipment themselves: Relevant substances in water, soil and air--Sampling procedures--Methods of analysis and price of equipment--Limit values, reference (standard) values, general principles of assessment--Legal aspects of measurement programmes conducted by Public Health Services. Possibilities were shown to gradually change over from the methods of measurement conventionally employed by the Public Health services, to more efficient methods, by discussing as examples the direct indicating air measurement tubes (standard size approx. 1 mg/m3 transverse sensitivity) as well as active sampling using Dräger activated carbon tubes.
authors.affiliation: Labor für Umwelthygiene, Gesundheitsamt Augsburg.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gratza
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Messungen und Begutachtung der Umweltqualität durch das Gesundheitsamt.