[Cobalt and sintered metal carbides. Value of the determination of cobalt as a tracer of exposure to hard metals]

Toxicol Eur Res. 1983 Sep;5(5):233-40.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Cobalt urinary excretion should be a good way to know the level of exposition of subjects submitted to hard metals. The study is done on 28 workers of 3 different workrooms. Sunday 24 hours diuresis is retained. For 5 workers, the urinary cobalt measurements are done from samples made at the beginning and the end of work during 5 days. Atmospheric dust measurements are realized in different points of the 3 workrooms (individual and general samples). For measures atomic absorption spectrometry is used. The results show a good correlation between cobalt exposure and urinary concentrations. Friday evening urinary cobalt is a good expression of week exposure. The results obtained well correlate with those of others authors. Cobalt urinary measures are proposed for supervision of workers exposed to hard metals.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Air / analysis
  • Cobalt / metabolism
  • Cobalt / urine*
  • Creatinine / urine
  • Dust / analysis
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Metals / poisoning*
  • Spectrophotometry, Atomic
  • Tungsten / urine

Substances

  • Dust
  • Metals
  • Cobalt
  • Creatinine
  • Tungsten