"This volume presents selected lectures given at the course “Occupational exposure limits – approaches and criteria, third international course”. The main objectives were to: describe and differentiate between the various approaches and criteria used to set an occupational exposure limit (OEL) identify the problems of comparing OELs from different countries, and analyse an OEL based on background information. The course was arranged by the Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG) and the Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health (NIVA).

The presentations herein cover: basic concepts in toxicological risk assessment, information retrieval, criteria documents as basis for OELs, OEL setting by the European Union, the Netherlands, Sweden and the American Conference on Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), scientific, socioeconomic, technological and ethical aspects, exposure to particles and lung disease, and mixed exposures. Several other topics were also addressed at the course."

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