Essential MAK Value Documentations 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 an authoritative review of the available toxicological studies and data
• Describes substance, toxic effects, mechanisms and modes of action, toxicogenetics and metabolism, effects in man and animals

Contents

General Aspects

• Significance, use and derivation of MAK values
• Changes in the Classification of Carcinogenic Chemicals in the Work Area
• Metal-working fluids
• Sensitizing substances

Substances

• α-Amylase
• Arsenic and its anorganic compounds
• 2-Butoxyethanol
• Carbon disulfide
• Cereal flour dusts
• Chloroform
• 1,4-Dioxane
• General Threshold Limit Value for Dust
• Ethanol
• Ethylene oxide
• Formaldehyde
• Germ Cell Mutagens
• Hexachlorobenzene
• Ozone
• Passive Smoking
• Styrene
• Trichloroethylene

Index

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