Critical aspects in occupational exposure assessment with different aerosol metrics in an industrial spray coating process.
Aerosol metrics
Engineered nanomaterial
Exposure assessment
Spray-coating
Journal
NanoImpact
ISSN: 2452-0748
Titre abrégé: NanoImpact
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101676795
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2023
04 2023
Historique:
received:
21
11
2022
revised:
14
03
2023
accepted:
15
03
2023
medline:
5
6
2023
pubmed:
23
3
2023
entrez:
22
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs) have several uses in various industrial fields and are embedded in a myriad of consumer products. However, there is continued concern over the potential adverse health effects and environmental impacts of ENMs due to their unique physico-chemical characteristics. Currently, there are no specific international regulations for various ENMs. There are also no Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) regulated by the European Union (EU) for nanomaterials in the form of nano-objects, their aggregates or agglomerates (NOAA). For ENMs the question of which metric to be used (i.e., mass, surface area, number concentrations) to determine the exposure is still not resolved. The aim of this work is to assess the worker exposure by inhalation in an industrial spray coating process by using all three metrics mentioned above. Two target ENMs (N-doped TiO
Identifiants
pubmed: 36948454
pii: S2452-0748(23)00010-1
doi: 10.1016/j.impact.2023.100459
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
titanium dioxide
15FIX9V2JP
Air Pollutants, Occupational
0
Aerosols
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
100459Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.