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Groupe d'études écotoxicologiques sur les pollutions, la santé et les impacts sur l'homme [Group for Ecotoxicological Studies on Pollutions, Safety and Impacts on Humans] (GEEPSIH)
Faculté des Sciences / faculty of Sciences - IGEAT (unité ULB536)
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Evaluation et pollution - Ecologie industrielle - Cycles biogéochimique, éléments-traces, métaux lourds - Contamination (sol, eau,...), sources d'exposition - Toxicité/écotoxicité, substances chimiques organiques ou inorganiques - Imprégnation de l'organisme - Milieu de vie - Exposition professionnelle - Recherche d'indicateurs et de bioindicateurs ( sang, dent,...) - Epidémiologie/santé publique - Vulnérabilité (âge, physiologie,...), divers groupes de population - effets des polluants, croissance, développement,... - Cinétique des polluants dans l'organisme - Incertitudes/facteurs de variation - Déficiences alimentaires - Synergie/antagonismes - Comportements de consommation, style de vie, typologie de l'habitat, qualité du logement, quartiers en crise - Inégalités sociales devant l'environnement et la santé - Evaluation des risques - Méthodologies et analyse des risques, principe de précaution, valeurs maximales admissibles, normes - Risque acceptable - Développement durable - Aménagement des risques/remédiation - Modèles. [Environnement and pollution - Industrial Ecology - Biogeochemical cycles of trace elements, heavy metals. Contamination (soil, water,...), various sources of exposure - Toxicity/ecotoxicity of organic and inorganic chemicals - Body burden and impregnation - Consumer and occupational exposure - Research of indicators and bioindicators (blood, teeth,...) - Epidemiology/Public heath - Susceptibility (age, physiology,...) within various groups of population - effects of pollutants, growth and developement,... - Biokinetics of pollutants - Uncertainty/factors of variation - Nutritional deficiencies - Synergie/antagonisms - Consumers habits, lifestyle, typology/quality of housing, districts in crisis - Differences in environmental health with respect to socioeconomic factors - Risk assessment - Methodologies and risk analysis, principle of precaution, maximal admissible concentrations, regulation - Acceptable Risk - Sustainable developement - Risk managemen/remediation - Modeling.]
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coordonnées / contact details
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 Groupe d'études écotoxicologiques sur les pollutions, la santé et les impacts sur l'homme [Group for Ecotoxicological Studies on Pollutions, Safety and Impacts on Humans] |
 | tel +32-2-650.43.33 / 49.25 / 43.06 / 22.41, fax +32-2-650.43.24, asteen@ulb.ac.be
http://www.ulb.ac.be/igeat/ |
| Campus du Solbosch, Campus du Solbosch Av. A. Depage, 13 |
| CP130/02, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Bruxelles |
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responsable / head
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Prof. Anne STEENHOUT
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composition / members
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Corinne CAUFRIEZ  Etienne CUVELIER Nathalie DE DOBBELEER Monica FALCONE Stéphanie FRASELLE Ayssa KASSRY Selvie PAWSHI Mohamed RICH Pascal RIETHMULLER Claude-Emmanuelle ROBERT Valérie ROORYCK
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publications
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Observed and predicted gradient in deciduous tooth Pb indices for constant and mixed high and low Pb profiles. A. Steenhout. In : Trace Substances in Environmental Health. XXIX Supplt to Environm. Geochem. and Hlth, (D.D. Hemphill and C.R. Cothern, Editors), University of Missouri, Columbia, MI, and US.EPA, Sciences Advisory Board, Washington, D.C. (1991), 315.
Blood Pb levels vs age : Modelling a progressive increase or the occurence of peaks in relation with external exposure and lead kinetic. A. Steenhout. In : Heavy Metals in the Environment, (CEP, Edinburgh, Editor for the European Communities), 1(1991), 139.
Evaluation of inhaled lead vs ingested lead by children in urban vs industrial areas. A. Steenhout. In : Heavy Metals in the Environment, (CEP, Edinburgh, Editor for the European Communities), 1(1991), 142.
Height vs weight of children with various Pb-Tooth levels : Protocol and status report for the ecotoxicological approach of a dose-effect study. A. Steenhout. In : Heavy Metals in the Environment, (CEP, Edinburgh, Editor for the European Communities), 1(1991), 135.
Body lead distribution in children : Physiological significance of biomarkers values vs age and curvilinear or linear relations with a first order kinetic. A. Steenhout. In : Impact of Heavy Metals on the Environment, (J.P. Vernet, Editor); Elsevier Trace Metals in the Environment Series, (J.O. Nriagu, Series Editor), Elsevier Science Publisher, Amsterdam, 1992, 2, 29.
A. Steenhout / ''Urban lead exposure'' / contribution to the review ''Indoors Pollution'' in: ''Health Clearing House Belgium/HUB - Cahiers Internationaux HUB'' under request of the Federal Ministery of Social affairs, Health and Environment, Editor, Brussels
A. Steenhout / '' Modelling the tooth lead vs blood lead relationship in childhood versus age: A submodel within the ECOTOX Risk Assessment model'' / J. Exposure Anal. & Environ. Epidemiol., special issue (Proceedings of the US. EPA '' Modeling Lead exposure and biovailability'' Workshop (Aug-Sept 1998)
A. Steenhout / ''A health approach to urban areas in difficulties: Focus on heavy metals'' / in: Monographs of the SCOPE series (scientific committee on problems of the environment, Belgian Academy of Sciences).
A. Steenhout / ''Risk evaluation of inhalation vs ingestion of toxic metals in children: an insight from the ECOTOX Risk Assessment model / Proceedings of the US.EPA''Probablistic Risk Assessment and Biokinetic Modeling'' Workshop (june 1999), US Environmental protection agency
A. Steenhout / An integrated approach to reliably predict European Consumers Exposure. Research directions and priorities / European Chemical Industry. Institute for Environment Management and Physical Planning, Free University of Brussels, July 2000, 25pp
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collaborations
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Prof. A. Meheus, Prof. M. Van Sprundel, Universiteit Instelling Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgique
Dr. V. NELEN, Provinciaal Instituut voor Hygiene, Antwerpen, Belgique
Prof. M. VAN DAMME, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut de Pharmacie, Bruxelles, Belgique
Prof. CHazot et Dr M. Bost, Hôpital Neurologique et Trace Element Institut pour l'UNESCO, Lyon, France
Dr. O. GUILLARD, CHU de Poitiers - Hôpital Jean Bernard., Laboratoire Central de Biochimie et Toxicologie, Poitiers, France
Prof. A. PINEAU, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Pharmacie, Nantes, France
Dr. S. CHENERY, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, Grande-Bretagne
Prof. A. Colombi, Dr M. Buratti, Istituto di Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Clinica del Lavoro "L. Devoto", Milano, Italie
Dr. Lester GRANT, National Center for Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Etats-Unis (USA)
Prof. R. BORNSCHEIN, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Institute of Environmental Health, Cincinnati, Etats-Unis (USA)
Dr. R. CHANEY, US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville, Maryland, Etats-Unis (USA)
Dr. O. GUILLARD, Université de Poitiers, Laboratoire Central de Biochimie et Toxicologie, Hôpital Jean Bernard, CHU et Faculté de Pharmacie, Poitiers, France
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prix / awards
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Bourse de collaboration scientifique OTAN - Anne STEENHOUT
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savoir-faire/équipements / know-how, equipment
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Spectromètre d'absorption atomique à effet Zeeman - Fluorescence RXportable - Minéralisateurs - Systèmes de prétraitement d'échantillons
Evaluation des risques pour l'homme et pour l'Ecosystème - Analyse de la teneur totale (éléments - traces, métaux lourds,...) et spéciation, milieux environnementaux et biologiques - Etudes épidémiologiques et toxicologiques - Etudes cinétiques - Banques de données, création, analyse - Modèles biocinétiques - Aménagement des risques, modèles d'aide à la décision.
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mots clés pour non-spécialistes / keywords for non-specialists
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éco-toxicologie
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