Environmental and biological monitoring of occupational exposure to perchloroethylene in dry cleaning shops

• Published in: Medicina del lavoro Vol. 88; no. 1; p. 24
• Main Authors: Gobba, F, Rosa, P, Ghittori, S, Imbriani, M, Ferrari, G, Cavalleri, A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Italy 01.01.1997
• Subjects: Adult; Air Pollutants, Occupational - analysis; Air Pollutants, Occupational - toxicity; Air Pollutants, Occupational - urine; Confidence Intervals; Environmental Monitoring; Female; Finland; Germany; Humans; Italy; Japan; Laundering; Male; Occupational Exposure; Regression Analysis; Solvents - toxicity; Tetrachloroethylene - analysis; Tetrachloroethylene - toxicity; Tetrachloroethylene - urine; Trichloroacetic Acid - urine; United Kingdom; United States

Occupational exposure to perchloroethylene (PCE) was studied in a total of 106 workers in 78 dry cleaning shops in the province of Pavia, Northern, Italy. Environmental monitoring was performed by personal passive sampling. The median time weighted average (TWA) level of PCE was 57 mg/m3, i.e., abou...