Aldehyde residues on endoscopes - Practical values and allowable limits;Aldehydrückstände an endoskopen: Größenordnung und grenzwerte

Hygiene + Medizin

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 449-457

  Van Drongelen, Arjan W ^a   De Bruijn, Adrie C P ^a   Janssen, Paul J C M ^a   Orzechowski, Tom J H ^a   De Jong, Wim H ^a   Geertsma, Robert E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Allowable limit; Flexible endoscopes; Formaldehyde; Glutaraldehyde; Residual; Residues; Toxicology; Washer disinfector

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DERIVATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33750896044     PISSN: 01723790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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