Correlation between urinary 1-hydroxypyrene and ambient air pyrene measured with an inhalable aerosol sampler and a total dust sampler in an electrode paste plant

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-67

  Bentsen, R K ^a   Halgard, K ^a   Noto H ^a   Daae, H L ^a   Ovrebo S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

1 hydroxypyrene; Personal samplers; Soderberg electrode paste; Workplace monitoring

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DUST; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

ELECTRODE PASTE; HYDROXYPYRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

1 HYDROXYPYRENE; PYRENE;

AEROSOL; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; ELECTRODE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SMOKING; URINALYSIS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0032485404     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(97)00331-8     Document Type: Article

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