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A proposed structure for information recording of electron microscopy analysis for the NECID database will be presented. It includes a template for the reporting of the qualitative and descriptive assessment of field air samples and for the…

Assessing chemical risks at the workplace can include a chemicals measurement step whose aim is to assess the exposures of the workers. In order to perform exposure diagnostic assessments that are representative of the risks, the measurements…

Due to the growing use of nanoparticles in industrial processes, the number of workers potentially exposed is increasing while the toxicological effects of these compounds have not been fully characterized yet. Because inhalation represents…

The propensity of bulk nanomaterials powders to be released as particles, the so called dustiness, is an important consideration for worker exposure and the design and operation of many industrial or research processes. OECD considers that…

Objective: In the French epidemiological surveillance program EpiNano, each workstation in the participating companies is randomly assigned a score of potential of exposure to nano-objects and their agglomerates and aggregates (NOAA), assessed…

Objective: Inter-method reliability is a measure of the ability of two different methods which evaluate the same underlying exposure to yield similar results on the same subjects. In this study we compared an observational “EpiNano-method…

The French national epidemiological surveillance program EpiNano aims at surveying mid- and long-term health effects possibly related with occupational exposure to either carbon nanotubes (NTC) or titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2…

The ExproNano project aims at providing a methodology for assessing exposure to nanoparticules (manufactured or not) that combines both an aerosol measurement component (via real time aerosol measurements and aerosol sampling) and a work task…

Due to their physical and chemical properties, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are among the most promising nanomaterials in terms of industrial use. In order to assess their toxicological properties, inhalation experiments performed on laboratory…

Handling CNTs powders is a plausible scenario over the entire life-cycle for CNTs. However limited exposure data exist today. In this context, there is no doubt that dustiness data can be of great interest for e.g, control banding or exposure modeling…