title: Revised reference value for pentachlorophenol in morning urine.
abstract: Reference values are continuously derived by the Human Biomonitoring Commission of the German Federal Environment Agency to give help in assessing the exposure of individuals or population groups in comparison to the background exposure. As environmental conditions may change reference values should be checked periodically and they have to be updated, if new data become available. The results of the German Environmental Survey 1998 (GerES III) showed the decreasing pentachlorophenol (PCP) exposure of the German adult population. Therefore, the reference value for PCP in morning urine was lowered: from 8 to 5 microg/l for adults (aged 18-69 years) living in homes where wood preservatives had not been used.
authors.affiliation: Federal Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: christine.schulz@uba.de.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.affiliation: Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Institute for Pure and Applied Chemistry, Oldenburg, Germany.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Butte
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000652:urine*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010416:Pentachlorophenol / Q000652:urine*; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors; D014934:Wood
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D010416:Pentachlorophenol