BAT value documentations Volume 4 : The MAK collection for occupational health & safety Part II

Threshold limit values indicate the point at which health is impaired by chemicals. They are indispensable in occupational medicine for evaluating the risk of working materials. Biological Tolerance Values (BAT Values) give the threshold limits for hazardous occupational toxicants in body fluids. They are predominantly used in Europe. This volume provides the scientific reasons why important BAT Values were established at a particular level. The documentations include pharmacokinetics, critical toxicity, exposure and effect, selection of the indicators, methodology, background exposure, interpretation of the data.

BIOLOGICAL TOLERANCE VALUES Concepts of Biological Limit Values (BAT Values, EKA and BLW) Occupational-Medical Toxicological Documentation of Biological Limit Values (BAT, EKA and BLW) INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGICAL MONITORING Biological Monitoring and Biological Limit Values (BLVs): The Strategy of the European Union BAT VALUE DOCUMENTATION Cyclohexane Formic acid methyl ester Hexachlorobenzene, Addendum Lead and its compounds (except lead arsenate, lead chromate and alkyllead compounds) Lead and its compounds, Addendum Manganese and its inorganic compounds Tetrachloromethane, Addendum Tetrahydrofuran, Addendum DOCUMENTATION FOR CARCINOGENIC SUBSTANCES Dichloromethane, Addendum Tetrachloroethene, Addendum Trichloroethene, Addendum Antimony and its inorganic compounds Beryllium and its inorganic compounds 1,4-Dichlorobenzene, Addendum Mercury, organic mercury compounds BLW VALUE DOCUMENTATION Arsenic and inorganic arsenic compounds (with the exception of arsenic hydride and its salts) Cresols (all isomers) Methyl bromide Phenol, Addendum List of Authors and Date of Compilation Working Group "Aufstellung von Grenzwerten in biologischem Material" (Setting of Threshold Limit Values in Biological Material) Index for Volumes 1-4