Cobalt release from earrings and piercing jewellery - Analytical results of a German survey

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 369-375

  Uter, Wolfgang ^a   Schmid, Matthias ^a   Schmidt, Oliver ^b   Bock, Constance ^c   Wolter, Jörg ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety Institute for Consumer Products   (Germany)

^c Berlin Brandenburg State Laboratory   (Germany)

^d State Office for Agriculture Food Safety and Fishery   (Germany)

Author keywords

cobalt; exposure analysis; metals; nickel

Indexed keywords

COBALT; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EAR PIERCING; GERMANY; JEWELRY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; PROBABILITY; CHEMISTRY; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; SWEAT;

COBALT; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; GERMANY; HUMANS; JEWELRY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; NICKEL; SWEAT;

EID: 84901312357     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cod.12227     Document Type: Article

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