Abstract
More than twelve years of practical experience in specimen banking at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), within the National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB), have demonstrated that the concept of long-term storage of environmental specimens is feasible. The activities at NIST include specimen banking of: human liver samples, samples from the marine environment (sediments, oysters mussels, fish tissue and marine mammal tissues), human serum, and total human diet samples. These research projects are associated with several different U.S. government environmental programs. The NBSB is providing a wide range of know-how in the collection, processing, long-term storage, and analysis of the different samples types. Even though the types of specimens and the number of samples collected are limited, the NBSB can serve as a valuable resource for the assessment of long-term trends of pollutants and for future retrospective studies. Specimens can be made available to the scientific community and national or international organizations.
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