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Indoor and Built Environment, Vol. 6, No. 6, 358-361 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X9700600607

Surveillance for the Effects of Carbon Monoxide on Health in a Tianjin Gas Factory

Xin-xin Li

Tianjin Laboratory of Health and Occupational Diseases Prevention and Treatment Hospital

Xiang-min Ma

Sanitation and Diseases Prevention Centre of Tianjin

Zi-zhen Dong

Sanitation and Diseases Prevention Centre of Tianjin

Ping Xie

Sanitation and Diseases Prevention Centre of Tianjin

Gang Li

First Tianjin Gas Factory, Tianjin, China

This report describes the surveillance over the past 8 years of carbon monox ide (CO) levels in a factory producing gas from coal. Where workers were working in areas of the factory where the air might be polluted by CO we found that measurement of carboxyhaemoglobin (HbCO) levels in their blood was a sufficiently sensitive test of exposure. Measurements on samples taken before and after a shift showed a significant difference. Our measurements of a HbCO blank control in two normal population groups was very close to the biological limit value of that for normal groups in the USA and Germany.

Key Words: Carbon monoxide • Acute carbon monoxide poisoning • Carboxyhaemoglobin • Coal gas factory • Health monitoring


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