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Asphalt—A continuing challenge
Author(s) -
Melius James
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.10215
Subject(s) - asphalt , medicine , environmental health , epidemiology , occupational medicine , occupational exposure , toxicology , forensic engineering , waste management , engineering , archaeology , biology , history
Assessing the health risks of complex mixtures of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons such as diesel fumes and asphalt or bitumen continues to be a major challenge for occupational and environmental health scientists. The special Asphalt issue of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine (Cancer Mortality Among European Asphalt Workers (Am.J.Ind.Med. Volume 43, Number 1, 2003) presented the results of a major multi‐country epidemiological study of a group of workers exposed to one common commercial PAH mixture, asphalt or bitumen.