Description
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Detailed, ready-to-use protocols for human biomonitoring for 30+ of the most important occupational toxicants. All methods are reliable, reproducible, in accordance with 'Good Laboratory Practice' and cover the required steps from sampling to the interpretation of results.
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GENERAL ASPECTS
Preliminary remarks
Gas chromatographic methods for the determination of organic substances in biological materials
SUBSTANCES
Acrylonitrile
Alcohols and Ketones
Antimony
Aromatic carboxylic acids
Arsenic in urine
Benzene
Benzene and alkylbenzenes
Beryllium in urine - standard addition procedure
Bitumen (vapour and aerosol)
Butoxy acetic acid
Cadmium
Carbon disulfide
Chloroform
Cobalt
Cotinine in urine
Cyanoethylvalin N-2-Cyanoethylvalin, N-2-hydroxyethylvalin, N-2-methylvalin (Acrylnitril, Ethylen, Ethylenoxid, methylating agents)
Dimethyl sulfate
Ethanol
Ethylbenzene
Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (Ethylene glycol derivatives)
Ethylene oxide
Halogenated hydrocarbons in blood (Tetrachloro ethylene)
Hexane metabolites in urine
Lead
t,t-Muconic acid, S-Phenyl mercapturic acid
Organochlorine compounds in whole blood and plasma
PAH metabolites in urine
Styrene
Tetrachloro ethylene (tetrachloroethene)
Thioxothiazolidine (2-Thioxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid)
Trichloro acetic acid in urine
Trichloro ethylene
Xylene (all isomers)
(Author portrait)
Jürgen Angerer is Head of the working group "Analytical Chemistry" of the Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area. He is a member of the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA) and board member of the International Society of Environmental Medicine (ISEM). He is author and editor of numerous books and belongs to the editorial boards of the Journal of Chromatography B as well as of the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.
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Helmut Greim is Head of the DFG-Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area and also President of the Advisory Committee on Existing Chemicals of Environmental Relevance of the German Chemical Society. Both bodies are intimately involved in European regulatory procedures concerning hazardous chemicals.
