Implementation and coordination of an ethics framework in HBM4EU – Experiences and reflections

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  • Knudsen, Lisbeth E.
  • Hanna Tolonen
  • Paul T.J. Scheepers
  • Ilse Loots
  • Katrin Vorkamp
  • Parvaneh Hajeb
  • Ovnair Sepai
  • Liese Gilles
  • Pia Splanemann
  • Philipp Weise
  • Marike Kolossa-Gehring
Human biomonitoring involves the use of human samples and data to investigate exposure to environmental chemicals and their impact on human health. HBM4EU developed a coordinated and harmonized approach involving 29 countries in Europe plus Israel. Addressing ethical issues has been an indispensable prerequisite, from the application phase, grant agreement, project performance to the closing of the project. HBM4EU has established a better understanding of the ethics in such projects and the need for a standardised way of reporting and handling of ethics and data exchange, securing compliance with ethics standards, transparency, transferability and sustainability
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer114098
TidsskriftInternational Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
Vol/bind248
Antal sider10
ISSN1438-4639
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

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Funding Information:
This study was part of the HBM4EU project receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 733032 .

Funding Information:
The project used both existing data which needed to be harmonized - this was termed ‘post-harmonized' - and new data. Furthermore, in the project both biobanked samples from completed or ongoing national or regional HBM programs were used, as well as newly collected human samples from EU co-funded projects under HBM4EU.Addressing ethics is a contractual obligation with any EC funded project with a robust review and analysis process. Separate obligations of forming an EB as well as delivering an Ethics Policy Paper were included as deliverables. Annual reporting of ethics was requested as deliverables and organized to follow the progress of including studies and humans with ethics compliance. Annual reporting was organised to comply with the requirements set in the initial ethics analysis as seen in Table 1.This study was part of the HBM4EU project receiving funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 733032.

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