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Authors:

L. Perbellini; G. B. Faccini; F. Pasini; F. Cazzoli; S. Pistoia; R. Rosellini; M. Valsecchi; F. Brugnone

Title:

Environmental and occupational exposure to benzene by analysis of breath and blood

Year:

1988

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

British Journal of Industrial Medicine

ISSN of journal:

0007-1072

N° Volume:

45

Page numbers:

345-352

Keyword:

Benzene exposure - alveolar air - blood - general population - chemical workers

Short description of contents:

Benzene exposure of chemical workers was studied, during the entire workshift, by continuous monitoring of workplace benzene concentration, and 16 hours after the end of the workshift by the measurement of alveolar and blood benzene concentrations and excretion of urinary phenol. Exposure of hospital staff was studied by measuring benzene concentrations in the alveolar and blood samples collected during the hospital workshift. Instantaneous environmental air samples were also collected, at the moment of the biological sampling, for all the subjects tested. A group of 34 chemical workers showed an eight hour exposure to benzene, as a geometric mean, of 1.12 micrograms/l which corresponded, 16 hours after the end of the workshift, to a geometric mean benzene concentration of 70 ng/l in the alveolar air and 597 ng/l in the blood. Another group of 27 chemical workers (group A) turned out to be exposed to an indeterminable eight hour exposure to benzene that corresponded, the morning after, to a geometric mean benzene concentration of 28 ng/l in the alveolar air and 256 ng/l in the blood. The group of hospital staff (group B) had a benzene concentration of 14 ng/l in the alveolar air and 269 ng/l in the blood. Instantaneous environmental samples showed that in the infirmaries the geometric mean benzene concentration was 58 ng/l during the examination of the 34 chemical workers, 36 ng/l during the examination of the 27 chemical workers (group A), and 5 ng/l during the examination of the 19 subjects of the hospital staff (group B).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Product ID:

3950

Handle IRIS:

11562/3950

Deposited On:

July 5, 2012

Last Modified:

June 28, 2015

Bibliographic citation:

L. Perbellini; G. B. Faccini; F. Pasini; F. Cazzoli; S. Pistoia; R. Rosellini; M. Valsecchi; F. Brugnone, Environmental and occupational exposure to benzene by analysis of breath and blood «British Journal of Industrial Medicine» , vol. 45 , 1988 , pp. 345-352

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