A health surveillance case study on workers who manufacture silver nanomaterials

Nanotoxicology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 667-669

  Lee, Ji Hyun ^a   Mun, Jehyeok ^b   Park, Jung Duck ^c   Yu, Il Je ^a  

^a Hoseo University   (South Korea)

^b Korean Industrial Health Association   (South Korea)

^c Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Exposure; Health surveillance; Silver nanomaterial

Indexed keywords

SILVER NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; WORKER; WORKPLACE; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; BLOOD; INDUSTRY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; STANDARD; URINE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SILVER; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES;

EID: 84867066056     PISSN: 17435390     EISSN: 17435404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17435390.2011.600840     Document Type: Article

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