EXPOSURE TO ORGANIC SOLVENTS—II. AN EXPOSURE EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY

摘要

The recognition of the‘solvent syndrome’as an occupational disease in Denmark has created a need for mapping the exposure to organic solvents.Exposure levels to organic solvents were measured at 372 representative processes in Danish manufacturing and service industries.Half of the results calculated asΣ(Ci/TLVi) were below 0.25, a quarter between 0.25 and 1, and a quarter above 1. The printing and chemical industries were found to have higher exposure levels than other industries.The commonest processes had the highest exposure levels. A comparison of exposure to organic solvents and incidence of cases recorded as suffering from‘solvent syndrome’in different industries, shows that a causal relationship cannot be disproved by the present