Section 105440 Of Article 1. General From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 103. >> Part 5. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 1.
105440
. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program.
(b) For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings:
(1) "Agency" means the California Environmental Protection Agency.
(2) "Biomonitoring" means the process by which chemicals and their
metabolites are identified and measured within different biological
specimens.
(3) "Biological specimen" means a sample taken from a biophysical
substance, that is reasonably available within a human body, for use
as a medium to measure the presence and concentration of toxic
chemicals.
(4) "Community" means geographically or nongeographically based
populations that may participate in the community-based biomonitoring
program. A "nongeographical community" includes, but is not limited
to, populations that may share a common chemical exposure through
similar occupations, populations experiencing a common health outcome
that may be linked to chemical exposures, or populations that may
experience similar chemical exposures because of comparable
consumption, lifestyle, product use, or subpopulations that share
ethnicity, age, or gender.
(5) "Department" means the State Department of Public Health.
(6) "Designated chemicals" means those chemicals that are known
to, or strongly suspected of, adversely impacting human health or
development, based upon scientific, peer-reviewed animal, human, or
in vitro studies, and consist of only those substances including
chemical families or metabolites that are included in the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies that are known
collectively as the National Reports on Human Exposure to
Environmental Chemicals program and any substances as specified
pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 105449.
(7) "Director" means the State Public Health Officer.
(8) "DTSC" means the Department of Toxic Substances Control within
the agency.
(9) "Office" means the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment within the agency.
(10) "Panel" means the Scientific Guidance Panel established
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 105448).
(11) "Program" or "biomonitoring program" means the California
Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program, which shall be
established and operated by the department, in collaboration with the
agency, the office, and DTSC.
(12) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the California
Environmental Protection Agency.