Air monitoring and assessment of occupational exposure to peracetic acid in a hospital environment

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-221

  Pacenti, Marco ^a   Dugheri, Stefano ^a   Boccalon, Pierpaolo ^a   Arcangeli, Giulio ^a   Dolara, Piero ^a   Cupelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hospital environment; Occupational exposure; Peracetic acid; Risk assessment; Solid phase microextraction

Indexed keywords

PERACETIC ACID;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERACETIC ACID; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION;

EID: 77952038421     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.48.217     Document Type: Article

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