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Black carbon (BC) in the atmosphere severely impacts human health and climate. Despite this, BC monitoring is often limited to a small number of locations. The emergence of low-cost sensors could facilitate coverage of black carbon measurements in...

Exposure to perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds (PFAS) indoors via house dust and indoor air has so far received little attention in official risk assessments. However, data from the literature show that children in particular can be...

The inhalation of respirable crystalline silica has been identified as a causal factor in the development of silicosis and lung cancer. Consequently, it is essential to analyze dust samples from work environments for their quartz content. In...

At the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences in Jena, pioneering technical processes such as selective laser sintering are optimized for special materials such as quartz and brought to industrial maturity. New manufacturing processes often also...

The GDA Best Practice Database to support supervisors and companies in exchanging the best solutions in dealing with carcinogenic hazardous substances is an aid in the fight against occupational cancer. The database provides support not only through...

In November 2019, the draft of VDI Guideline 3783 Sheet 1 “Spread of incident-related releases” was pub-lished as a green print. In addition to the objections to the directive regarding unclear wording, the lack of a reference program and the...

Dry ice is a widely used cooling option for transported goods. However, the cooling effect is necessarily accompanied by the release of gaseous carbon dioxide (CO2). A workplace limit value of 0.5 % by volume applies to this and it can have a lethal...

The introduction of non-mining waste into the cavities created by the extraction of raw materials in salt mines resulted in unexpectedly high concentrations of N-nitrosamines being detected in exposure measurements. Positive findings with regard to...