This project is a joint effort of OHRCA and ACER. It responds to the U.S. Congressional requirements to establish health surveillance in relation to bleed air events ("incident reporting") and to analyze filter samples obtained during and after air quality incidents to identify the contaminants to which passengers and crew were exposed ("incident monitoring").

The specific objectives of this project include:

1. To collect, reveiw and summarize the available medical evidence provided by crewmembers that have reported exposure incident(s) in order to develop standardized medical evaluation protocols for both acute and chronic effects.

2. To develop air quality health surveillance intruments and systems for crewmembers (and eventually passengers) to report incident related health and exposure conditions during and after flights.

3. To validate the VN sampler (the portable, cost-effective air sampling device) developed to measure semi-volatile and non-volatile chemical constituants in aircraft.

4. To conduct a feasibilty study to field test the VN sampler and air quality health surveillance instrument on aircraft.

5. The design a full surveillance study of cabin crew that will establish the relationship between air quality and health effects.

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