title: Environmental specimen banking in the Czech Republic: a pilot study.
abstract: In recognition of the importance of environmental specimen banking (ESB) as an important component of the described ongoing real-time environmental and health-related monitoring programmes, a proposal for a planned ESB pilot study in the Czech Republic is presented. Selection of biomonitors, analytes, sampling techniques and sites is discussed, especially with regard to the possible harmonization with ESB already operational abroad. Availability of validated analytical techniques for determination of up to 30 elements using nuclear and spectroscopic techniques, including speciation of several metals, and of the most important organic pollutants employing various chromatographic techniques in biological and environmental samples is demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Physics Institute, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kucera
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Obrusník
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Fuksa
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Veselý
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stastný
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hajslová
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mader
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Miholová
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sysalová
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D003199:Computer Systems; D018153:Czech Republic; D004602:Elements; D004782:Environmental Health; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D004602:Elements; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical