2007 Minnesota Statutes

144.995 DEFINITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING AND
BIOMONITORING.
    (a) For purposes of sections 144.995 to 144.998, the terms in this section have the meanings
given.
    (b) "Advisory panel" means the Environmental Health Tracking and Biomonitoring Advisory
Panel established under section 144.998.
    (c) "Biomonitoring" means the process by which chemicals and their metabolites are
identified and measured within a biospecimen.
    (d) "Biospecimen" means a sample of human fluid, serum, or tissue that is reasonably
available as a medium to measure the presence and concentration of chemicals or their metabolites
in a human body.
    (e) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Department of Health.
    (f) "Community" means geographically or nongeographically based populations that may
participate in the 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,
populations that may experience similar chemical exposures because of comparable consumption,
lifestyle, product use, and subpopulations that share ethnicity, age, or gender.
    (g) "Department" means the Department of Health.
    (h) "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 baseline human exposure data, and consists of 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 specified by the commissioner after
receiving recommendations under section 144.998, subdivision 3, clause (6).
    (i) "Environmental hazard" means a chemical or other substance for which scientific,
peer-reviewed studies of humans, animals, or cells have demonstrated that the chemical is known
or reasonably anticipated to adversely impact human health.
    (j) "Environmental health tracking" means collection, integration, analysis, and dissemination
of data on human exposures to chemicals in the environment and on diseases potentially caused
or aggravated by those chemicals.
History: 2007 c 57 art 1 s 143