Quantitative relationship of fecal asbestos to asbestos exposure
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health
- Vol. 1 (3) , 377-379
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15287397609529337
Abstract
A method is described for isolating chrysotile fibers from feces and counting them with an electron microscope. The detection limit was 150,000 fibers per gram feces; average recovery was 85.5%. When the method was used to check the asbestos in feces of people subjected to industrial exposure vs. controls, the means were significantly different (p < 0.02). Duplicate fecal samples were found to check within an average of ±31.1% of their means.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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