Ozone biomonitoring: A novel approach of environmental assessment

Biomonitoring has emerged as an important tool to assess the environmental health using living organisms. It is a reliable, economical and easy method and has far more advantages as compared to the conventional physico- chemical methods that require more capital, technically sound instruments and workers to work upon. With ozone concentration on a unprecedented rise, ozone biomonitoring has become a demand of the present time. Although the different protocols of ozone biomonitoring are now well established in the developed countries, we still need to work upon it in the developing and underdeveloped countries. The present article explains the different methods utilized in ozone biomonitoring and the different biomonitoring programmes that are being conducted by different agencies.