In the meantime, VITO is also contributing to the development of a European human biomonitoring network COPHES (http://www.eu-hbm.info/ (new window)), which has as goal obtaining comparable biomonitoring data in Europe in the framework of the European Environmental Health Action Plan. COPHES (Consortium to perform human biomonitoring on a European Scale) is composed of 35 partners from 27 countries.