title: Biological monitoring of workers exposed to acetone in acetate fibre plants.
abstract: Concentrations of acetone in urine, alveolar air, and blood were measured by gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection for 110 subjects occupationally exposed to acetone (mean 372 ppm) in three factories. Significant relations were found between the time weighted average environmental concentration and the concentration in the biological samples. The strongest correlation was between the concentration of acetone in urine and the degree of exposure (r = 0.71, 95% CI 0.64-0.77). This suggests that urinary acetone concentration is the best biological index of occupational exposure to acetone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fujino
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Satoh
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takebayashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakashima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Higashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matumura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minaguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawai
mesh_terms: D000096:Acetone / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood / Q000652:urine; D000328:Adult; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D000096:Acetone