Occupational and consumer risk estimates for nanoparticles emitted by laser printers

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-99

  Hänninen, Otto ^a,b   Brüske Hohlfeld, Irene ^a   Loh, Miranda ^b   Stoeger, Tobias ^a   Kreyling, Wolfgang ^a   Schmid, Otmar ^a   Peters, Annette ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baseline toxicity; Epidemiology; Health effects; High toxicity; Occupational safety; Risk assessment; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC SCALING; AMBIENT PARTICLES; BASELINE TOXICITY; CONSISTENT VALUES; CONSUMER EXPOSURE; CONSUMER RISK; HEALTH EFFECTS; LASER PRINTERS; NANO-SIZED PARTICLES; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; PARTICLE MASS; PARTICLE NUMBERS; PARTICLE SURFACE AREA; POTENTIAL RISKS; RISK METRICS; SURFACE AREA; TOXICOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT;

HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; PRINTERS (COMPUTER); PRINTING PRESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TOXICITY;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

NANOPARTICLE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; DANGEROUS GOODS; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME; INHALATION; LASER; LASER SAFETY; LUNG DEPOSIT; MORTALITY; NANOTOXICOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 75049084820     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-009-9693-z     Document Type: Article

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