Hygienic guidance values for wipe sampling of antineoplastic drugs in Swedish hospitals
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Hygienic guidance values for wipe sampling of antineoplastic drugs in Swedish hospitals.
The use of antineoplastic drugs in health care steadily increases. Health care workers can be occupationally exposed to antineoplastic drugs classified as carcinogenic or teratogenic. Monitoring of surface contamination is a common way to assess occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs, since wipe sampling is used as a surrogate measure of dermal exposure. Since no occupational limits for ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Environmental Monitoring
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1464-0325,1464-0333
DOI: 10.1039/c2em10704j