Municipal waste incinerators: Air and biological monitoring of workers for exposure to particles, metals, and organic compounds

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 563-569

  Maitre A ^a,b   Collot Fertey, D ^b   Anzivino, L ^c   Marques, M ^b   Hours, M ^c   Stoklov, M ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; METAL; PLASTIC; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; FURNACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCINERATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; WORKER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INCINERATION; MALE; METALS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0041573051     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.8.563     Document Type: Article

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