Historical exposure to inorganic mercury at the smelter works of Aabbadia San salvatore, Italy

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-90

  Bellander, Tom ^a,b,e   Merler, Enzo ^a,c   Ceccarelli, Franco ^d   Boffetta, Paolo ^c  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^b Department of Occupational Health ^*  (Sweden)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^d Local Health Unit 32   (Italy)

^e STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; MERCURY (METAL); MINES; PERSONNEL; SMELTING;

CINNABAR PIGMENT PRODUCTION; CONDENSER CLEANING; INORGANIC MERCURY; SOOT PURIFICATION;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; EXTRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELTER; SOOT; TIME; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE LEVEL;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ITALY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032007209     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4878(97)00052-5     Document Type: Article

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