title: Assessment of phosphatic fertilizer production impact on occupational staff based on NAA of hair, nails, and inhald particles.
abstract: Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) was performed for the determination of 25 elements in hair, toenails, and PM2.5 (particles smaller than 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter) to assess how human tissues of occupational staff and inhaled particles follow the industrial exposure of Gdansk Phosphatic fertilizer plant in Poland. Statistical analysis was used to elucidate this exposure. The results obtained were compared using box and whiskers plot and the parametric t-test and nonparametric Mann-Whitney U- test. The comparison showed a statistically significant difference between workers and control group concerning for example Br, Ca, Cl, La, Mn, Sm, U and V in hair, Cu, Dy, La, Sm, Ti and U in toenails and Al, As, Cl, I, K, La, Mg, Mn, Na, Sm and Zn in PM2.5 samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland. rainska@op.pl
authors.forename: Emilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Raińska
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Biziuk
authors.forename: Costel
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sarbu
authors.forename: Karolina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Szczepaniak
authors.forename: Marina Vladimirovna
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Frontasyeva
authors.forename: Otilia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Culicov
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bode
authors.forename: Aleksander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Astel
mesh_terms: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000032:analysis*; D002617:Chemical Industry; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005308:Fertilizers / Q000032:analysis*; D006197:Hair / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D019570:Inhalation Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D009262:Nails / Q000737:chemistry; D009501:Neutron Activation Analysis; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000032:analysis*; D010316:Particle Size; D011044:Poland; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric
chemical_list: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D005308:Fertilizers; D009930:Organic Chemicals