Assessment of nickel and cobalt release from 200 unused hand-held work tools for sale in Denmark - Sources of occupational metal contact dermatitis?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4663-4666

  Thyssen, Jacob P ^a   Jensen, Peter ^a   Lidén, Carola ^b   Julander, Anneli ^b   Jellesen, Morten S ^c   Menné, Torkil ^a   Johansen, Jeanne D ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allergic contact dermatitis; Cobalt allergy; Nickel allergy; Public health; Work tools

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS; CONTACT DERMATITIS; DENMARK; DIMETHYLGLYOXIME; MEDICAL HISTORY; METAL CONTACTS; METAL RELEASE; METAL RINGS; NICKEL RELEASE; PATCH TESTING; POSITIVE TESTS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOM SELECTION; TEST RESULTS; WORK TOOLS;

ALLERGIES; COLORIMETRY; DERMATITIS; EQUIPMENT; METALS; NICKEL; TESTING;

COBALT;

COBALT; DIMETHYLGLYOXIME; NICKEL;

ALLERGY; COBALT; HEALTH IMPACT; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SKIN DISORDER; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; DENMARK; EQUIPMENT; OCCUPATIONAL ECZEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCREENING; UNUSED NON POWERED HAND HELD WORK TOOL;

COBALT; COLORIMETRY; DENMARK; DERMATITIS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIMES; PATCH TESTS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 80053301593     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.056     Document Type: Article

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