Lead contamination of environment in Meza Valley: a preliminary report.

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• Personal Author:
  Djuric D ; Graovac-Leposavic L ; Senicar H ; Senicar L ; Zarka K
• Description:
  Recently great attention is being paid to the problems of lead contamination in the urban atmosphere due to emission from motor vehicles exhaust. Numerous studies are in progress on this subject, especially in the USA. The aim of these studies is to establish the lowest level of lead in the urban atmosphere that will produce a measurable change in the body due to exposure to respirable and absorbable lead particles. On the other hand, in the world literature a great number of papers have been published in the last decades on occupational exposure in lead and lead intoxication. In Yugoslavia there are two areas in which the population is exposed to higher levels of lead than urban populations are but lower than occupational exposures. These areas are around two big lead mines, and possessing and smelting plants. The first mine is located in Slovenian Alps and the second one at Trepca on Kosovo, toward Albanian border. We started our ecological study on lead contamination in the biosphere arid population exposure around lead mine "Mezice" in Slovenija. Later we intend to develop a similar study around the Trepca mine. In such a way we hope to fill the gap between studies on low lead exposure of urban populations and high occupational exposures of workers and lead miners.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Automobiles
  • Dust
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Metals
  • Metals, Heavy
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Occupational Health
  • Preceptorship
  • Safety
  More +
• Keywords:
  • Lead production
  • Environmental contamination
  • Automotive exhausts
  • Occupational exposure
  • Smelters
  • Mineral processing
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Editor:
  Henschel A
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  33-47
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057338
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Special Foreign Currency Program Symposium, October 1970, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Henschel A ed. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1970 Oct; :33-47
• CAS Registry Number:
  • Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Editor(s):
  Henschel A
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1971
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Special Foreign Currency Program Symposium, October 1970, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181812/cdc_181812_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.71 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d807226b46ab501e938dbc6441854de9871a66e6da41090857c5df42b51bfd033fd05bdb0f2e1243719f9434090085b3bfe057de6c7b03b3b62a30e578669413