Occupational Exposure to Mercury: Air Exposure Assessment and Biological Monitoring based on Dispersive Ionic Liquid-Liquid Microextraction.

Exposure to mercury (Hg) as a heavy metal can cause health effects. The objective of this study was to assess occupational exposure to Hg in a chlor-alkali petrochemical industry in Iran by determining of Hg concentrations in air, blood and urine samples.The study was performed on 50 exposed subject...

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Main Authors: Hamid Shirkhanloo, Farideh Golbabaei, Hamid Hassani, Farrokh Eftekhar, Mohammad Javad Kian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014-06-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Public Health
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Online Access:https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/4060