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Bioaerosols: From measurement to assessment - VDI
VDI/BAuA Expert Forum
Source: © Dr. Marcus Clauß

                                                       27/28 November 2019, Berlin

                             VDI/DIN Commission on Air Pollution Prevention (KRdL) – Standards Committee

                             Bioaerosols:
                             From measurement to assessment

                             Main topics
                              Current standardization activities in Germany
                              Sampling and specific parameters
                              Effects and risk assessment
                              Bioaerosol activities in Europe
Introduction

     Foreword
     The significance of bioaerosols and their possible adverse        Current standardization activities in Germany.
     health effects on employees of bioaerosols emitting plants       In addition, experts from selected European partner
     as well as nearby residents are the topic of controversial       countries will give an insight into aspects and focal
     national and international discussions. The expert forum,        points of their country's bioaerosol standardization and
     initiated jointly by the VDI/DIN Commission on Air               research activities. In a subsequent wrap-up meeting,
     Pollution Prevention (KRdL) and the Federal Institute for        new topics and priorities will be identified, which may
     Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), aims to present           lead to joint European activities.
     the latest research results and questions:                       An accompanying poster session offers the opportunity to
      Novel approaches in sampling, measuring and                    present results and experiences and to discuss them with
           assessing the health effect of specific bioaerosol         the experts present.
           components e.g. bacteria, Legionella, endotoxins,          With this event KRdL and BAuA want to offer a neutral
           fungi and pollen.                                          and independent platform for this highly complex and
      State of the art work place measurements and                   controversially discussed topic.
           detection techniques

     Program committee
     Dr. Andrea Gärtner                   North Rhine Westphalian State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer
                                          Protection, Essen, Germany
     PD Dr. Stefanie Heinze               Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Munich, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Caroline Herr              Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Munich, Germany
     PD Dr. Udo Jäckel                    Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Dr. Dierk-Christoph Pöther           Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     M.Sc. Clara Pogner                   Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Tulln, Austria
     Dr. Jochen Theloke                   VDI/DIN Commission on Air Pollution Prevention (KRdL), Duesseldorf, Germany

     Speaker
     Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bünger              Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident
                                          Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
     Prof. Dr. Jeroen Buters              Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
     Dr. Marcus Clauß                     Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig,
                                          Germany
     Dr. Bernard Clot                     Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MétéoSwisse, Payerne, Switzerland
     Dr. Philippe Duquenne                Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité (INRS), Paris, France
     Dr. Andrea Gärtner                   North Rhine Westphalian State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer
                                          Protection, Essen, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Rafal Górny                Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
     M.Sc. Anne Grünberg                  Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Caroline Herr              Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Munich, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Dick Heederik              Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
     PD Dr. Udo Jäckel                    Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Dr. Stefanie Klar                    Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Dr. Annette Kolk                     Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
                                          (IFA), St. Augustin, Germany
     Dipl.-Ing. Holm Kühne                Saxon State Company for Environment and Agriculture, Radebeul, Germany
     M. Sc. Inken Laufer                  Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Dr. Anne Mette Madsen                The National Research Centre of the Working Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark
     Dr. Anne Oppliger                    Unisanté, Center for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne,
                                          Switzerland
     Dipl.-Chem. Sarah Peters             North Rhine Westphalian State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer
                                          Protection, Essen, Germany
     Dr. Dierk-Christoph Pöther           Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     M.Sc. Clara Pogner                   Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Tulln, Austria
     Prof. Dr. Sylvia Schnell             Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
     Dr. Anne Straumfors                  National Institute of Occupational Health (STAMI), Oslo, Norway
     Dr. Sean Tyrrel                      Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
     Dr. Kerttu Valtanen                  German Environment Agency (UBA), Berlin, Germany
     Dr. Inge Wouters                     Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, The Netherlands
     M.Sc. Mihai Zamfir                   Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Munich, Germany
Introduction

     Chair
     Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bünger           Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident
                                       Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
     Dr. Andrea Gärtner                North Rhine Westphalian State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer
                                       Protection, Essen, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Caroline Herr           Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Munich, Germany
     PD Dr. Udo Jäckel                 Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Dr. Gunter Linsel                 Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Berlin, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Dennis Nowak            Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine,
                                       Munich, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Monika Raulf            Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident
                                       Insurance (IPA), Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
     Dipl.-Biol. Gerd Schneider        Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance
                                       (IFA). St. Augustin, Germany
     Dr. Michael Seidel                Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
     Dr. Jochen Theloke                VDI/DIN Commission on Air Pollution Prevention (KRdL), Duesseldorf, Germany
     Prof. Dr. Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann University Center for Health Sciences at the Klinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
     Dr. Sean Tyrell                   Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom
     Dr. Sandra Walser-Reichenbach     Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (LGL), Munich, Germany

     Poster Contributions
     The poster session offers the opportunity to complement the programme of oral presentations in an informal setting. As the
     number of posters is limited, posters will be accepted in the order in which they are registered. Please submit the
     provisional title of your poster presentation as soon as possible. The deadline for poster submission is 27 September 2019.
     You will receive a notification of acceptance or non-acceptance within a reasonable time.
     From the posters accepted, the Program committee will select six posters, which will be presented to the
     plenary after the first day of the program as part of a 5-minute presentation.

     Publication of abstracts
     Abstracts of the presentations of the Expert Forum will be published in the Journal of Environmental and
     Occupational Health Sciences “Environmental medicine - Hygiene - Occupational medicine” (German:
     "Umweltmedizin - Hygiene - Arbeitsmedizin" (UHA)), Volume 24, edition 6, 2019 (Link:
     https://www.ecomed-umweltmedizin.de/archiv)
Program

    Bioaerosols
    From measurement to assessment
    27/28 November 2019, BAuA, Berlin, Germany
    Room A 400
    Check-in at the VDI registration desk

     Day 1                                                     Afternoon

     10:00
     Welcome and introduction                                  Session 3: Tenacity and Exposure
     Isabel Rothe, President of BAuA                           Chair:     Andrea Gärtner & Gerd Schneider

     Moderation: Caroline Herr & Udo Jäckel                    14:10
                                                               Survival of bacteria in the airborne state – What
     Session 1: Current standardization activities (Germany)   do we know?
     Chair:     Jochen Theloke & Udo Jäckel                    Marcus Clauß

                                                               14:30
     10:15
                                                               Methods for differentiation of living and dead
     Bioaerosols in the workplace atmosphere                   bacteria
     Annette Kolk                                              Anne Grünberg
     10:35                                                     14:50
     Bioaerosols in indoor air                                 Bioaerosol exposure at workplaces in biogas
     Kerttu Valtanen                                           production plants
                                                               Dierk-Christoph Pöther
     10:55
     Environmental Bioaerosols                                 15:10
     Caroline Herr                                             Bioaerosol exposure at workplaces in hatcheries
                                                               Udo Jäckel
     11:15
     Discussion Session 1                                      15:30
     Session 2: Specific parameters                            Discussion Session 3
     Chair:     Sandra Walser-Reichenbach & Gunter Linsel
                                                               15:40
     11:25                                                     Coffee break
     Legionella – hazards at workplaces
     Annette Kolk                                              Session 4: Risk assessment
                                                               Chair:     Caroline Herr & Jürgen Bünger
     11:45
     Detecting Legionella in environmental samples             16:10
     Mihai Zamfir                                              Respiratory diseases at workplaces highly polluted
                                                               by bioaerosols and combination effects
     12:05                                                     Jürgen Bünger
     Comparison of transport, storage and analysis
     of endotoxin workplace dust samples                       16:30
     Clara Pogner                                              Health relevance of environmental bioaerosols
                                                               Caroline Herr
     12:25
     Measurement of endotoxin emissions                        16:50
     Andrea Gärtner & Sarah Peters                             Measuring toxic effects of bacterial secondary
                                                               metabolites on human lung cells
     12:45                                                     Stefanie Klar
     Discussion Session 2
                                                               17:10
     12:55                                                     Dicussion Session 4
     Lunch break
                                                               17:20
                                                               e-Poster session, get together and dinner at BAuA
Program

    Bioaerosols
    From measurement to assessment
    27/28 November 2019, BAuA, Berlin, Germany
    Room A 400
    Check-in at the VDI registration desk

    Day 2                                                      Afternoon

                                                               12:10
     Session 5: Environmental bioaerosols                      Bioaerosol studies in Poland – current activities and
     Chair:     Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann & Michael Seidel       future challenges
                                                               Rafal Górny
    08:30
    Background bioaerosol investigations in rural              12:35
    environments                                               Discussion Session 6
    Inken Laufer & Holm Kühne
                                                               12:45
    08:50                                                      Lunch break
    Automatic pollen monitoring, towards an European
    network
    Bernad Clot                                                Session 7: European activities in bioaerosols
                                                               Chair:    Monika Raulf & Dennis Nowak
    09:10
    The flower pollen microbiome and its impact on human       13:45
    health                                                     Occupational exposure to bioaerosols: overview of
    Sylvia Schnell                                             works on the issue in France
                                                               Philippe Duquenne
    09:30
    Monitoring - fungi                                         14:10
    Jeroen Buters                                              Activities in the field of biological risks at work
                                                               place in Switzerland
    09:50                                                      Anne Oppliger
    Discussion Session 5
                                                               14:35
     10:00                                                     Towards a risk evaluation of microbial exposure
     Coffee break                                              based on species identification?
                                                               Anne Mette Madsen

     Session 6: European activities in bioaerosols             15:00
     Chair:     Inge Wouters & Sean Tyrell                     Discussion Session 7

    10:30                                                      15:10
    Standards, Regulations and current research on              Wrap-up and open discussion
    Bioaerosols in Austria                                      Chair: Dennis Nowak
    Clara Pogner                                                Discussion on future standardization activities, Limit
                                                                values, needs for research
    10:55
    Bioaerosol exposure assessment: recent experiences in
                                                               15:50
    studies evaluating health risks among people living near
    livestock production farms                                  Farewell and end of the VDI/BAuA Expert Forum
    Dick Heederick                                              Caroline Herr & Udo Jäckel

    11:20
    Bioaerosol measurement, risk assessment and standards
    in England
    Sean Tyrell

    11:45
    Bioaerosol exposure in Norway
    Anne Straumfors
    Anne Straumfors
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