WHO - Brief guide to analytical methods for measuring lead in blood: Second edition [2020]
Description:
The document provides a brief overview of analytical methods commonly used for measuring lead in blood and their corresponding advantages and disadvantages. Using various types of applications and scenarios, it also highlights the considerations needed to be taken into account when selecting an analytical method and when deciding about whether to establish a laboratory service or whether to contract it out.
Why this Tool/Guidance?
Information provided is primarily aimed at informing public health personnel, scientific institutions and policy-makers who are not laboratory specialists but who may need to develop plans for conducting human biomonitoring studies, performing blood lead prevalence screening, and other public health actions related to the assessment of human exposure to lead.
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