California Department of Public Health Funding

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  • Learn more about the California Department of Public Health's work to assess environmental contaminants across the state.
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Funding overview

2014-2019

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), and Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) collectively developed and implemented the .

Two state laboratories, the CDPH Environmental Health Laboratory and the DTSC Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, provide analytical expertise and capacity for measuring environmental chemicals; these include metals, pesticides, parabens, perchlorate, bisphenol A (BPA), per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and organophosphate flame-retardants (OPFRs).

The Biomonitoring California program received funding from ob体育 in 2014 to assess environmental contaminants across the state. The 2014-2019 funding cycle included these studies:

  • The Biomonitoring Exposures Study, a targeted study in partnership with the Kaiser Permanente-Northern California members (residing in the Central Valley), to assess exposure to pesticides, PFAS, phthalates, PBDEs, BPA, and metals
  • The Foam Replacement Environmental Exposure Study, to compare the levels of PBDEs and OPFRs in participants before and after foam furniture replacement
  • The Asian/Pacific Islander Community Exposures Project, to assess exposure to metals and PFAS in 200 Asian residents of the San Francisco Bay Area
  • The Measuring Analytes in Maternal Serum, to assess exposure to metals, PFAS, PBDEs, PCBS, and OCPs during pregnancy using archived maternal serum specimens
  • The California Regional Exposure Study, to assess exposure to metals and PFAS with regionally representative sampling across the entire state of California

2009-2014

The California Department of Public Health set forth the following goals to build or expand its biomonitoring program:

  • Expand current laboratory capability and capacity to assess human exposures to environmental chemicals of greatest concern to Californians
  • Provide laboratory support for targeted public health and exposure investigations, epidemiologic investigations, and population-based biomonitoring surveillance
  • Conduct targeted exposure investigations in collaboration with communities and stakeholder groups
  • Assess the effectiveness of state public health actions to reduce exposures over time to specific chemicals of concern to Californians
  • Integrate biomonitoring findings into the development and implementation of chemical use policy for California under the Green Chemistry Initiative.
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National Center for Environmental Health; Division of Laboratory Sciences