New hot articles on TFE, APFO and fungal exposure asessment

15 Feb 2012

Anne Sleeuwenhoek and John Cherrie at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh have developed a method to reconstruct exposure to tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) and ammonium perfluorooctanoate (APFO) in plants producing polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).

A simple method for assessing exposure was developed which used detailed process information and job descriptions, and the resulting data were used to inform an epidemiological study being carried out to investigate possible risks in workers employed in the manufacture of PTFE and to study trends in exposure over time.

Exposure assessment of tetrafluoroethylene and ammonium perfluorooctanoate 1951–2002
Anne Sleeuwenhoek and John W. Cherrie
DOI: 10.1039/C2EM10930A

William Rittenour et al. have compared three commonly used DNA extraction methodologies used in ITS sequencing of occupational or environmental dust samples, in order to assess fungal diversity and exposure.