Featuring 60 new monographs, here's the much-awaited revision of the preeminent data reference on workplace exposure to chemicals. This manual provides updated information on the 542 substances profiled in the previous edition, giving occupational health workers insight into more than 600 common workplace substances.

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Product Description: This volume provides documentations for the established MAK values (maximum workplace concentrations) of selected occupational toxicants, including an authoritative review of the available toxicological studies and data. For each substance, the toxic effects, mechanisms and modes of action, toxicogenetics and metabolism, effects in man and animals are described...read more

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Product Description: "Occupational Toxicology" deals with chemicals in the workplace. It introduces the reader to the basic aspects of the science of toxicology which underpin the application of toxicological information to the workplace. It contains chapters on the most important workplace exposures such as metals, pesticides, solvents, plastics, gases and particulate matter...read more

Product Description: Occupational Toxicology deals with chemicals in the workplace and introduces the reader to the basic aspects of the science of toxicology that underpin the application of toxicological information to the workplace. The book contains chapters on the most important workplace exposures such as metals, pesticides, solvents, plastics, gases, and particulate matter and informs the reader as to the types of toxicity seen in the workplace environment and the organs likely to be affected...read more

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Featuring 60 new monographs, here's the much-awaited revision of the preeminent data reference on workplace exposure to chemicals. This manual provides updated information on the 542 substances profiled in the previous edition, giving occupational health workers insight into more than 600 common workplace substances.

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The Second Edition of Industrial Chemical Exposure reflects the changes in the status of biological monitoring over the past decade. Essentially double the size of the first edition, the Second Edition includes vast amounts of updated and expanded material on biological monitoring methods for individual chemicals. Almost every chapter has been rewritten from the point of view of recent research, and the list of relevant citations has increased considerably.Industrial Chemical Exposure 2nd Edition is a practical guide to biological monitoring for industrial clinical exposure assessment. Chapter 1 discusses the objectives of biological monitoring, the types of biological monitoring methods, their advantages and limitations, and practical aspects that must be considered before initiating a biological monitoring program. Chapter 2 summarizes what is known about biological monitoring for inorganic and organometallic substances. Chapter 3 discusses biological methods available for assessing exposure to organic substances. Chapter 4 is a summary table providing practical recommendations for chemicals discussed in the previous chapters. Industrial Chemical Exposure 2nd Edition is a useful reference for occupational physicians, industrial hygienists, clinical chemists, and toxicologists. (view table of contents)