The importance of sampling time and coexposure to acetone in the biological monitoring of styrene-exposed workers

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 471-475

  De Rosa, Edoardo ^a   Cellini, Marcello ^b   Sessa, Giovanni ^c   Scapellato, Maria Luisa ^c   Marcuzzo, Giorgio ^c   Bartolucci, Giovanni Battista ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b Azienda USL di Ferrara   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CREATININE; GLASS FIBER; MANDELIC ACID; PHENYLGLYOXYLIC ACID; STYRENE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE; WORKER;

EID: 0029901536     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1996.10389358     Document Type: Article

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