Environmental health collaboration: United States and Russia

摘要: Developed nations share similar challenges to human health from commercial and agricultural chemicals that are released into the environment. Although Russia United States historically distinct unique, both countries geographically large economically dependent on emission-producing surface transportation. This paper describes U.S.-Russian collaborative activities grew a 1995 conference in Moscow brought together environmental investigators discuss common concerns about impact of pollutants. Lead, pesticides, volatile organic compounds, mercury were identified as contaminants greatest concern. Collaborative studies initiated included collecting blood hair samples splitting for analyses countries, introducing sharing new portable sample instruments. The findings demonstrated analysis was not good predictor BLL Russian children first city sampled had mean 7.7 μg/dl. higher than U.S. mean, this level below 10.0 μg/dl CDC manuscript summarizes additional study results their impacts policy. On-going investigations described.