2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Basic research for biological monitoring in workers exposed to formaldehyde

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21590652
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Hygiene
Research Institution	Shinshu University
Principal Investigator	NOMIYAMA Tetsuo 信州大学, 医学部, 教授 (70286441)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	TSUKAHARA Teruomi 信州大学, 医学部, 講師 (50377652) UCHIYAMA Iwao 京都大学, 工学研究科, 名誉教授 (20151897) TSUDA Yoko 信州大学, 医学部, 助手 (80512904) MATSUI Yasuto 京都大学, 工学研究科, 講師 (50533501)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	ホルムアルデヒド / 疫学 / 生物学的ばく露指標 / ギ酸 / メタノール
Research Abstract	Formaldehyde are used at many industrial manufacture, and is hard to measure the formaldehyde exposure concentration to worker. For the reason of establish a biological monitoring method of formaldehyde, we had investigated the correlation between personal exposure concentration of formaldehyde and methanol and urinary concentration of them. There was no correlation between personal formaldehyde exposure concentration and urinary concentration of formaldehyde, formic acid and methanol at the concentration near the occupational exposure limit of formaldehyde. We also examined irritation of formaldehyde using questionnaire. No relation was seen between irritation and personal concentration of formaldehyde.

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