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Large numbers of samples are commonplace in environmental monitoring and hu
man exposure assessment studies. When the goals of the US Environmental Pro
tection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (sound methods, int
egrated with human and ecological health, common sense approaches, and cost
-effective technologies) are coupled with the requirements of these large-s
cale studies, the importance of methods like immunoassays is evident. In th
is paper, regulatory issues, technical advances, and communication methods
are discussed which have contributed to the continued success of immunoassa
ys in environmental monitoring and human exposure studies. (C) 1998 Elsevie
r Science B.V. All rights reserved.