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ArticleToxics2023

Occupational Exposure and Health Impact Assessment of Diisocyanates in Finland.

Pasi Huuskonen, Simo P Porras, Bernice Scholten, Lützen Portengen, Sanni Uuksulainen, Katriina Ylinen, Tiina Santonen

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Article in Toxics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors.

Pasi HuuskonenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, FI-00032 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-5768-4330
Simo P PorrasFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, FI-00032 Helsinki, Finland.
Bernice ScholtenThe Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Lützen PortengenInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Sanni UuksulainenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, FI-00032 Helsinki, Finland.
Katriina YlinenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, FI-00032 Helsinki, Finland.
Tiina SantonenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, FI-00032 Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-8150-4985

Funding

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 733032
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diisocyanates are a group of chemicals widely used in different industrial applications. The critical health effects related to diisocyanate exposure are isocyanate sensitisation, occupational asthma and bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR). Industrial air measurements and human biomonitoring (HBM) samples were gathered in specific occupational sectors to examine MDI, TDI, HDI and IPDI and the respective metabolites from Finnish screening studies. HBM data can give a more accurate picture of diisocyanate exposure, especially if workers have been exposed dermally or used respiratory protection. The HBM data were used for conducting a health impact assessment (HIA) in specific Finnish occupational sectors. For this purpose, exposure reconstruction was performed on the basis of HBM measurements of TDI and MDI exposures using a PBPK model, and a correlation equation was made for HDI exposure. Subsequently, the exposure estimates were compared to a previously published dose-response curve for excess BHR risk. The results showed that the mean and median diisocyanate exposure levels and HBM concentrations were low for all diisocyanates. In HIA, the excess risk of BHR from MDI exposure over a working life period was highest in the construction and motor and vehicle industries and repair sectors, resulting in estimated excess risks of BHR of 2.0% and 2.6%, and 113 and 244 extra BHR cases in Finland, respectively. Occupational exposure to diisocyanates must be monitored because a clear threshold for DI sensitisation cannot be established.

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biomonitoringbronchial hyperresponsivenessdiisocyanateexposure assessmentexposure reconstructionhealth impact assessmentsensitisationworkers

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PMID36976995
PMCPMC10052111

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