(213e) The Main Directions of Rhitop

The major focus of RIHTOP is industrial personnel and members of the population affected by chemical weapons destruction and stockpiling facilities. This applies both to the normal operation of such facilities as well as emergency situations. The aim of monitoring is not only determining the severity of the effect on human organisms from industrial facilities, but also exposure management for timely respose and remediation of the resulting ecological pollution. Man-made pressure management is realized on the basis of the dynamic model, which takes into account the relation between indicators of environmental quality and data on the status of adaptive systems of human body. Construction of such a model requires organizing the ecological monitoring of the priority pollutants in a certain region and solving the following tasks: 1. Substantiation of toxicological safety standards for extra hazardous chemical substances: - in the air and on surfaces of equipment and structural units of an industrial zone; - in atmospheric air of a residential area; - in water reservoirs; - in the soil of a residential area; - emergency limits of exposure and acute exposure guideline levels (AEGL). 2. Developing the methods of chemical substances analyses at a basic safety level. 3. Developing and conducting studies on industrial personnel and population health risk assessment and management: - from exposure to fixed sources of chemical pollution of atmospheric air, to pesticides applied in crop production. 4. Developing and organizing health monitoring of population living in the areas with a relatively high probability of exposure to chemical pollutants: - organizing the collection and processing of the data of ecological and sanitary and hygienic monitoring; - organizing the collection and processing of data on montoring health status, and the development, creation and maintenance of population health registers. All specified tasks were being worked upon previously and are now being studied within the framework of both Russian state-sponsored programs and international projects.