Biological monitoring of occupational exposure to dichloromethane by means of urinalysis for un-metabolized dichloromethane
| Autor: | Toshio Kawai, Masayuki Ikeda, Haruhiko Sakurai |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Urinalysis Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Urine Air Pollutants Occupational complex mixtures chemistry.chemical_compound Japan Statistical analyses Medicine Exposure-excretion relationship Humans cardiovascular diseases Dichloromethane Methylene Chloride Chromatography medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Occupational exposure Middle Aged musculoskeletal system Male workers Biological monitoring chemistry cardiovascular system Printing Original Article Geometric mean business Diffusive sampling Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Industrial Health |
| ISSN: | 1880-8026 0019-8366 |
| Popis: | The objective of the study is to establish exposure-excretion relationship between dichlorometane (DCM) in air (DCM-A) and in urine (DCM-U) in workplace to confirm a previous report. Male workers in a screen-printing plant participated in the study. Time-weighted average DCM-A was measured by diffusive sampling followed by gas-chromatography (GC), and DCM in end-of-shift urine samples was by head-space GC. The data were subjected to regression and other statistical analyses. In practice, 30 sets of DCM-A and DCM-U values were available. The geometric mean DCM-A was 8.4 ppm and that of DCM-U (as observed) was 41.1 µg/l. The correlation coefficients (0.70-0.85) were statistically significant across the correction for urine density. Thus, the analysis for un-metabolized DCM in end-of-shift urine samples is applicable for biological monitoring of occupational exposure to DCM, in support of and in agreement with the previous report. In conclusion, biological monitoring of occupational DCM exposure is possible by use of analysis for un-metabolized DCM in end-of-shift urine. |
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