Publications by authors named "C Monse"
Article Synopsis
- Zinc fever is typically known to affect workers handling zinc at high temperatures, but its occurrence at low temperatures was previously unclear.
- A 33-year-old painter experienced respiratory issues and fever related to zinc coatings used at room temperature, leading to a diagnosis of zinc fever after ruling out other conditions.
- This case highlights that zinc-containing materials, even when applied at lower temperatures, can pose significant health risks to workers in occupations such as painting and varnishing.
Exposure to airborne substances such as gases, vapours, and particles remains a relevant health risk in many workplaces. A current topic and cause for discussion is the investigation of the health effects of particles containing zinc oxide (ZnO). Among other data, those collected from our study on human exposure data of ZnO in 2018 prompted the National Research Centre for the Working Environment 2021 to formulate a new, sharply lowered proposed occupational exposure limit (OEL) for zinc in workplaces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOdor evaluation is an important topic in the field of indoor air quality. Odor detection threshold (ODT) values are used to derive limit values like odor guide values or odor activity value. However, ODT values for the same substance available in compilations or published before 2003 rarely have an accuracy of less than three orders of magnitude.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnthropogenic activities and industrialization render continuous human exposure to semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) inevitable. Occupational monitoring and safety implementations consider the inhalation exposure of SVOCs as critically relevant. Due to the inherent properties of SVOCs as gas/particle mixtures, risk assessment strategies should consider particle size-segregated SVOC association and the relevance of released gas phase fractions.
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