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The group of Environmental Aerobiology and Toxicology of the UPCT takes advantage of the celebration, today, of the Day of the Environment, whose theme this year is air pollution, to demand the regulation of the aerosol of biological origin to include in the networks of monitoring of air quality information on the presence of pollen grains and fungal spores that generate allergies and asthma.

"Law 34/2007 on air quality and protection of the atmosphere defines air pollution as" the presence in the atmosphere of materials, substances or forms of energy that imply serious annoyance, risk or damage to the safety or health of people, the environment and other goods of any nature ", but excludes from its ordering the pollutants of biological origin," recalls UPCT professor Stella Moreno Grau.

His research group began studies on air quality in the Region of Murcia in the decade of the 70s of the last century and since the 80s, after outbreaks of epidemic asthma in Cartagena, studies the aerosol of biological origin, collecting data currently in the three largest cities of the Community, with the collaboration of the Official College of Pharmacists and the City of Murcia.

"Our goal is to provide this information to all the inhabitants of the Region, with the incorporation of a sampling point and analysis in each of the health areas," says Moreno Grau.

The aerobiological information in the different geographical areas is "essential for clinicians and pollen patients, which allows to optimize the diagnosis and treatment, with a decrease in pharmaceutical expenditure", explains the professor of the Polytechnic of Cartagena.

"The development of the legislation that we demand would allow us to consolidate these lines of work and ensure the incorporation of this information in the air quality monitoring networks as well as dissemination to the affected population," concludes the UPCT researcher and member of the UPCT. the Pharmacy Academy of the Region.

In addition, the study of the time series of pollutants of biological origin in the air would allow to develop predictive models and to observe the variations over time in the behavior of the producing species and their adaptations to changes in the climate.

Source: UPCT