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2013 International Conference on Environmental Specimen Banks: Securing a Strategy to Monitor Emerging Pollutants in the Regional and Global Environment Jianfu Zhao, Paul R. Becker & XiangZhou Meng
Environmental Science and Pollution Research ISSN 0944-1344 Volume 22 Number 3 Environ Sci Pollut Res (2015) 22:1555-1558 DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-3715-9
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2013 International Conference on Environmental Specimen Banks: Securing a Strategy to Monitor Emerging Pollutants in the Regional and Global Environment Jianfu Zhao & Paul R. Becker & Xiang-Zhou Meng
Received: 25 September 2014 / Accepted: 9 October 2014 / Published online: 25 October 2014 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) has been recognized for several decades as an important complement to environmental monitoring and research programs, with the following two possible reasons: (1) to evaluate the results of governmental environmental policies and regulations and (2) to conduct the monitoring and research either in ecological or human health (Becker et al. 2006). Currently, 28 ESBs (three in USA, three in France, two in Canada, two in Denmark, two in Spain, two in UK, two in Italy, two in Japan, two in Korea, one in Sweden, one in Germany, one in Norway, one in Finland, one in Portugal, one in South Africa, one in China, and one in Australia) have been established worldwide, and the values of ESB are becoming more broadly recognized by the scientific and management community (Day et al. 2014). The international workshop/conference has had a great influence on the development and direction of ESBs over the last three decades (Becker et al. 2006). As shown in Table 1, more than 20 international ESB meetings (including special ESB sessions in conference) have been held in different cities since the first International Workshop on the Use of Biological Specimens for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants in Luxembourg in April 1977. Clearly, most of these gatherings happened in the developed Responsible editor: Philippe Garrigues J. Zhao : X.
