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The introduction of various pieces of legislation concerned with health and safety at work, along with increasing public concern about possible adverse health effects caused by human exposure to low levels of toxic chemicals, has increased the need to carry out workplace monitoring. Knowledge of the risk to human health of handling toxic chemicals clearly needs measurement of the exact levels that humans are exposed to. The vast number of chemicals now encountered in the workplace means that no single sampling strategy and no single analytical technique is applicable to all situations. Although the development of direct reading instruments for on-site monitoring, giving fairly instant results, is progressing the majority of measurements of trace organic compounds in workplace samples require collecting samples in the workplace and sending to an analytical laboratory for instrumental analysis.
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Briggs, R.J., Stevenson, D. (1994). A Note on Sampling and Analysis of Volatile Organics Using Automated Thermal Desorption. In: Stevenson, D., Wilson, I.D. (eds) Sample Preparation for Biomedical and Environmental Analysis. Chromatographic Society Symposium Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1328-9_22
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