[Air quality surveillance in France].
As air quality has a direct impact on human health, its monitoring is imperative. In France, this task was entrusted by the government (Air Law of 1996) to organisations with territorial responsibility: the Registered Associations for the Surveillance of Air Quality. The type and level of pollution evolve: from industrial and sulphur pollution in the seventies, to urban and photochemical pollution today and to nanoparticles, pesticides and pollutants in buildings tomorrow. The tools, the skills and the roles of the different people involved in air quality control follow these sometimes rapid transitions in connection with an increasingly precise understanding of the relationship between health and the environment and of the considerable research on the subject. This article describes the mechanisms of air quality monitoring in France.
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Atmo PACA, Association Agréée pour la Surveillance de la Qualité de l'Air des Alpes de Haute-Provence, des Hautes Alpes, des Alpes maritimes, de l'Est des Bouches du Rhône, du Var et du Vaucluse, Le Noilly Paradis, Marseille, France.
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