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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 41440 |
| CIS number |
84-417 |
| Year |
1984 |
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| Author(s) |
Cachat-Delpont M.F. |
| Title |
Presently known occupational hazards of acrylonitrile |
| Original title |
Risques professionnels actuellement connus concernant l'acrylonitrile [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France, 1983. 176p. 58 ref. |
| Abstract |
This MD thesis summarises the physical and chemical properties, methods of analysis, means of production, industrial uses, possibilities of occupational exposure, metabolism, mechanism of action, fire hazards, and pathological effects of acute, subacute and chronic exposure in man and animals, as well as the methods of detection and determination in the workplace, exposure limits (4ppm for an 8h day, 5 days per week), methods of treatment depending on types of contamination, technical and medical preventive measures, regulations and recommendations covering safety and health in the workplace, neighbourhood protection, transport and waste disposal. Acrylonitrile is a potential carcinogen, as suggested by long-term animal experiments, case studies and epidemiological data. Determination of urinary mercapturic acids seems to be a promising means of biologically monitoring exposed workers. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
carcinogens; harmful substances; toxicology; acrylonitrile |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
France; metabolic process; neoplasms; sampling and analysis; exposure tests; thesis |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Toxic and dangerous substances
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Cyano compounds
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