Until 2018 the WHO Collaborating Center for Air Quality Management and Air Pollution Control published news about air quality of the member states of the WHO Region for Europe.
The Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) serves to investigate, document and archive environmental and human exposure to pollutants in Germany at a specific point in time.
Many European Research projects show that the development of low-emission materials and building products is the most effective measure to improve indoor air quality.
The Committee for Health-related Evaluation of Building Products (AgBB) develops health-based testing and assessment criteria for building products suitable for indoor use. The AgBB provides a uniform, transparent and comprehensible health-based assessment of building product emissions.
People in developed countries spend the majority of their lives indoors, on average about two thirds in their home. However, the quality of indoor air is not always beneficial to human health.
Human biomonitoring (HBM) is an important tool in environmental medicine to assess and evaluate the level of internal exposure of the general population, population groups and individuals to environmental toxins.
