Formaldehyde Exposure in Some Educational Hospitals of Tehran
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Formaldehyde exposure in some educational hospitals of Tehran.
This research was conducted to determine formaldehyde exposure of staffs in pathology laboratories, surgery rooms and endoscopy wards in eight large hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences located at Tehran, Iran. Air sampling have been made by both long and short-term methods. Total numbers of samples were 160 for both methods. Nineteen samples of 160 samples were collected as blank...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.703