Author: Myrto Petreas

Myrto Petreas is an environmental scientist at the California Environmental Protection Agency She is a chemist and an epidemiologist focusing on exposure assessment. She obtained her BS in Chemistry from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and her MS in Environmental Health, MPH in Epidemiology and Ph.D. in Occupational Health from the University of California, Berkeley. She designs, co-ordinates and manages studies to assess exposures to environmental contaminants posing health effects to humans and wildlife, and oversees the development of analytical methods for ultra trace chemicals (dioxins, PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, and new, emerging chemicals with endocrine disrupting properties) in environmental and biological samples. She has developed techniques to assess exposure to volatile organic solvents in exhaled air. She is currently directing a systematic effort to characterize dioxin body burdens, as well as baseline dioxin levels in soils and biota in California. She has co-authored a book on Indoor Air Quality (1998) and co-edited a book on Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (2000). She has numerous publications in the areas of biological monitoring, indoor air quality, fate and transport of environmental pollutants, and bioaccumulation of persistent chemicals.

Books Published by ChemTec Publishing:
Handbook of Solvents

Interests: Exposure assessment to environmental contaminants

Consulting: Exposure assessment to environmental contaminants; Indoor air quality; Industrial Hygiene 

Contact Information:
Cal/EPA
2151 Berkeley Way
Berkeley
CA 94704  
USA
Phone: 510 540-3624 
FAX: 510 540-2305
E-mail: Myrto Petreas, Ph.D., MPH