Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Monitoring and evaluating man-made mineral fibres : work of a WHO/EURO Reference Scheme

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Monitoring and evaluating man-made mineral fibres : work of a WHO/EURO Reference Scheme / N.P. Crawford, D. Kello and J.O. Jarvisalo

Sumario: In the mid-1970s, a meeting held to WHO (World Health Organization) in Copenhagen launched a research programme on the health effects of man-made mineral fibres. As part of this programme, a WHO/EURO Reference Scheme was initiated in 1980 to improve comparability of data obtained from epidemiological studies and thus reduce involved developing reference methods for evaluating airborne MMMF concentrations and size distributions by phase contrast optical microscopy (POCM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). These methods were tested in a series of inter-laboratory counting trials. Interim progress in the sheme was published in 1985. This paper updates the work of the scheme and confirms that the previously published improvements in reproducibility of measurement have been maintained

En: The Annals of occupational hygiene. - Oxford [etc.]. - nº 4B, 1987 ; p. 557-565

1. World Health Organization . 2. Higiene industrial . 3. Fibras minerales artificiales . 4. Man-made mineral fibres . 5. Contaminación atmosférica . 6. Contaminantes químicos . 7. Control de la contaminación . 8. Métodos de análisis . 9. Microscopios . 10. SEM . 11. Programas . 12. Europa . 13. Programa WHO . 14. Programas de seguridad . I. Kello, D. . II. Jarvisalo, J.O. . III. Title. IV. Título: The Annals of occupational hygiene.