Assessment of Phosphatic Fertilizer Production Impact on Occupational Staff Based on NAA of Hair, Nails, and Inhald Particles

Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) was performed for the determination of 25 elements in hair, toenails, and PM 2.5 (particles smaller than 2.5 μ m in aerodynamic diameter) to assess how human tissues of occupational staff and inhaled particles follow the industrial exposure of Gdansk Phosphatic fert...

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Published in:Journal of environmental science and health. Part A, Toxic/hazardous substances & environmental engineering Toxic/hazardous substances & environmental engineering, 2005-12, Vol.40 (12), p.2137-2152
Main Authors: Raińska, Emilia, Biziuk, Marek, Sarbu, Costel, Szczepaniak, Karolina, Frontasyeva, Marina Vladimirovna, Culicov, Otilia, Bode, Peter, Astel, Aleksander
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air Pollutants, Occupational - analysis
Assessments
Chemical Industry
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Environmental Monitoring - statistics & numerical data
Fertilizers - analysis
Fertilizing
Hair
Hair - chemistry
Humans
Inhalation Exposure - analysis
Manganese
Mann-Whitney U-test
Nails
Nails - chemistry
Neutron Activation Analysis
Occupational
Organic Chemicals - analysis
Particle Size
Phosphatic fertilizer plant
Poland
Samples
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
Statistics, Nonparametric
Uranium
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Summary:Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) was performed for the determination of 25 elements in hair, toenails, and PM 2.5 (particles smaller than 2.5 μ m in aerodynamic diameter) to assess how human tissues of occupational staff and inhaled particles follow the industrial exposure of Gdansk Phosphatic fertilizer plant in Poland. Statistical analysis was used to elucidate this exposure. The results obtained were compared using box and whiskers plot and the parametric t-test and nonparametric Mann-Whitney U- test. The comparison showed a statistically significant difference between workers and control group concerning for example Br, Ca, Cl, La, Mn, Sm, U and V in hair, Cu, Dy, La, Sm, Ti and U in toenails and Al, As, Cl, I, K, La, Mg, Mn, Na, Sm and Zn in PM 2.5 samples.
ISSN:1093-4529
1532-4117
DOI:10.1080/10934520500234635