Smartphones and high-tech laboratories to reveal health effects of environmental pollutants

Two projects will be launched jointly, addressing complementary aspects of the “exposome”. The exposome is the sum of all of the environmental components, including lifestyle factors and chemicals we are exposed to, that influence our health over the course of a lifetime. The new projects will develop high-tech tools to improve our ability to measure the exposome, with a particular focus on multiple chemical exposures in food, air, and water during critical periods of life. This joint launch marks the EU’s biggest investment in environmental health research to date. Read more here.