On June 10, health authorities announced the launch of a major survey that will monitor the health of the French population, its eating habits, physical activity, and exposure to pesticides, bisphenols, and phthalates. The first results are expected in early 2028.
The goal is to obtain a " accurate picture of the population's health", among others of " its exposure to around fifteen families of substances present in the environment", specify Public Health France (SpF) and the French National Agency for Food, Environmental and Health Safety (ANSES), which are working together to carry it out.
Called "Albane", this survey, which has the support of the ministries responsible for ecology, health, labor and agriculture, will survey separate samples of some 3,150 people every two years, " children and adults, randomly selected from more than a hundred survey areas distributed randomly across the territory“.
It will include a questionnaire on housing, profession and family, a self-questionnaire (on lifestyle habits, health, eating habits, physical activity), a dietary survey, a 7-day physical activity measurement, and a health examination. The latter will include urine and hair samples from participants over 3 years of age and blood samples from those over 6 years of age.
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Establish reference values
The data collected by the Albane survey will in particular make it possible to »establish reference exposure values based on the levels of impregnation of the population with substances present in the environment » such as pesticides. Associated with data from the National Health Data System (SNDS), this data must show " what diseases develop based on the exposures, dietary habits and environmental characteristics described or measured“.
They will also feed into other work by ANSES aimed at establishing toxicological reference values for a substance – the level from which the substance represents a risk to health.
This global vision of the state of health of the population will be able to guide public policies such as the National Nutrition and Health Program, the National Food Plan or the National Biosurveillance Strategy.
This data will also be made available to research teams in France and internationally, to better characterize the links between health, environment and food.
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