State Biomonitoring Grants

Washington State Department of Health

For fiscal year 2009, the Washington State Department of Health received $1,347,513.

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

• Focusing initially on measuring exposure to identified chemicals of concern in the general population: total and speciated arsenic (As), organophosphate (OP), and pyrethroid pesticide metabolites; and
• Using the CDC method to assess the general population’s exposure to 25 additional metals.

Contacts

Blaine Rhodes
Program Director
Environmental Lab Sciences
Shoreline, WA 98155
206-418-5520
Blaine.rhodes@doh.wa.gov

Kristin Dortch, MS
CDC Project Officer
770-488-0346
KDortch@cdc.gov