Method Development for Detecting Low Level Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) among Workers and Residents from a Carpentry Work Shop in a Palestinian Village.

Shehdeh Jodeh, Abdelkhaleq Chakir, Ghadir Hanbali, Estelle Roth, Abdelrahman Eid

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Shehdeh JodehDepartment of Chemistry, An-Najah National University, Nablus P.O. Box 7, Palestine.ORCID 0000-0001-9074-0122

Abdelkhaleq ChakirGroupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique GSMA, UMR CNRS 7331, Université de Reims, Moulin de la Housse B.P. 1039, CEDEX 02, 51687 Reims, France.

Ghadir HanbaliDepartment of Chemistry, An-Najah National University, Nablus P.O. Box 7, Palestine.ORCID 0000-0002-0322-5665

Estelle RothGroupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique GSMA, UMR CNRS 7331, Université de Reims, Moulin de la Housse B.P. 1039, CEDEX 02, 51687 Reims, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5019-1640

Abdelrahman EidDepartment of Mathematics, An-Najah National University, Nablus P.O. Box 7, Palestine.

An-Najah National University · PSCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

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Abstract

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are considered a major public health concern in industrial location areas. The presence of exposure to (VOCs) has raised concern regarding the health effects caused by chronic human exposure as this will increase cancer diseases in the village. An analytical method has been developed and modified to help us detect 38 VOCs in the blood of 38 volunteers who are related to a carpentry shop at the parts-per-trillion level. To measure and evaluate the potential risk, several devices, such as portable passive monitors and air-collected samples, in addition to blood concentration, were used to study three different occupational groups. Ten of the volunteers are employees at the shop, 10 volunteers live very close to the shop, and 10 of them are students in an elementary school very close to the shop. In this study, we developed an automated analytical method using headspace (HS) together with solid-phase microextraction (SPME) connected to capillary gas chromatography (GC) equipped with quadrupole mass spectrometry (MS). The detection limits for the method used were measured in the range from 0.001 to 0.15 ng/L, using linear calibration curves that have three orders of magnitude. The detected concentrations ranged from 3 ng L

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Volatile Organic CompoundsArabsGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryHumansHydrocarbonsSolventsHydrocarbonsSolventsVolatile Organic Compoundsanalysisbloodpaintsolid phase micro extractionvolatile organic compounds

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PMID37174133

DOI10.3390/ijerph20095613

PMCPMC10178486

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