A silent epidemic: occupational exposure limits are insufficiently protecting individual worker health
Albin, María ; Gustavsson, Per
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
2020
46
1
110-112
limitation of exposure ; chemicals ; determination of exposure limits ; cancer ; occupational disease
Exposure limits
English
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"In an editorial in an earlier issue of this journal, Johanson & Tinnerberg (1) expressed serious and well-founded concern over the large number of future occupational cancer cases that will result if exposures for a number of substances are not reduced below the so-called "binding occupational exposure limit values" (BOELV) issued by the EU (2). The balance between what is perceived as possible to comply with and the foreseeable health gain when setting BOELV is further discussed in a letter to the Editor by Cherrie (3). This debate raises several important aspects of how to protect workers from cancer as well as other potentially lethal diseases. Herewith, we discuss some of these aspects. ..."
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