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Louis-Rose, S./ L. Galsomiès 2011: Vegetal biomonitoring of air quality is standardized [La biosurveillance végétale de la qualité de l'air se normalise]. - Pollution Atmospherique (Special Issue): 57-61. [RLL List # 226 / Rec.# 33752]
Keywords: AFNOR/ Air quality/ Biomonitoring/ CEN/ Lichen/ Moss/ Normalisation/ Ray-grass/ Tobacco
Abstract: The practice of biomonitoring method for the assessment of air quality is well documented, but is limited to purposes of research and do not contribute to the decisionmaking process. Biomonitoring methods are not explicitly mentioned or recommended at present in any national or European regulation, which act as a brake to its expansion. Standardization thus appears to be necessary to insure that biomonitoring techniques are best recognised. The French standardization institute AFNOR established the committee T95AIR "Biomonitoring of air quality" in 2005 to elaborate the first four national standards of biomonitoring of the air quality. The fours standards were published in 2008 (on bioassessment of ozone using tobacco plants, active biomonitoring by ray-grass, passive biomonitoring procedures using cultivated mosses and determination of Index of epiphytic lichens). This committee T95AIR is still active and began to work in 2008 on the elaboration of three new French standards. In the meantime, the European Committee of Standardization (CEN) launched four new items in order to publish the first European standard in this domain probably in 2013.
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