The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Department of Environmental Toxins - sources and risks would like to map concentrations of a number of substances (including heavy metals, minerals and vitamins) in a large series of samples (e.g. 1000-5000 samples) of human samples such as urine, full blood, blood plasma and serum. This concerns both self initiated projects such as the Human environment biobank Norway and externally financed projects such as the EU project HELIX. Different departments and divisions at the institute will be able to use the analysis results that are obtained. As the institute does not have its own established methods for these analyses, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health shall collect tenders for analysis services at external service providers.
The Department for Environmental Toxins - sources and risks provides professional advice to the health, food and environment authorities. The department carries out general exposure research. The content of nutritional and foreign substances in mat, as well as substances in water and inside environments is examined in relation to the analysis data from human biological material and health. Analyses from human biological material are a central part of the work.