Essential Biomonitoring Methods provides comprehensive and authoritative information for occupational health and safety professionals and researchers.

Features:

• Covers both the toxicological substantiation of threshold values for chemicals at the workplace (MAK and BAT values) and the suitable monitoring methods
• Includes detailed, ready-to-use protocols for human biomonitoring methods
• Methods are reliable, reproducible, in accordance with 'Good Laboratory Practice' standards and cover all required steps from sampling to the interpretation of results with respect to relevant biological exposure values
• Includes data on precision, accuracy, and detection limit, calibration procedures as well as potential sources of systematic errors

Contents

General Aspects

• Preliminary remarks.
• The use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in biological monitoring

Substances

• Acrylonitrile.
• Alcohols and Ketones.
• Antimony, Lead, Cadmium, Platinum, Mercury, Tellurium, Thallium, Bismuth, Tungsten, Tin.
• Aromatic carboxylic acids.
• Arsenic.
• Benzene.
• Benzene and alkylbenzenes.
• Beryllium - Standard Addition Procedure.
• Bismuth.
• Bitumen.
• Butoxyacetic acid.
• Cadmium.
• Carbon disulfide.
• Chloroform.
• Cobalt.
• Cotinine.
• N-2-Cyanoethylvaline, N-2-Hydroxyethylvaline, N-Methylvaline.
• Dimethyl sulfate.
• Ethanol.
• Ethylbenzene.
• Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
• Ethylene oxide.
• Halogenated hydrocarbons.
• Hexane metabolites.
• Lead.
• Mercury.
• T,t-Muconic acid.
• Organochlorine compounds in whole blood and plasma.
• PAH metabolites.
• Styrene.
• Tellurium.
• Tetrachloro ethylene (tetrachloroethene).
• Thallium.
• 2-Thioxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA).
• Tin.
• Trichloroacetic Acid.
• Trichloroethylene.
• Xylene (all isomers).

Index

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