PAHs Exposure Assessment for Highway Toll Station Workers Through Personal Particulate Sampling and Urinary Biomonitoring in Tianjin, China

作者：Zhao, Yu-jie; Shou, You-ping; Mao, Tian-yu; Guo, Li-qiong; Li, Peng-hui^*; Yi, Xianliang; Li, Qian-qian; Shen, Li-zhu; Zuo, Huan-rong; Wang, Jing; Wang, Lei

来源：Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, 2018, 38(4): 379-388.

DOI：10.1080/10406638.2016.1220959

• Health effect
• 8-OHdG
• oxidative stress
• personal exposure
• p-PAHs

Highway toll station workers' occupational exposure levels and health effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been analyzed through personal particulate sampling and urinary biomonitoring during March-May, 2014 in Tianjin, China. Personal particulate samples were collected during highway toll station workers' day shift working time (from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.). Pre-shift and post-shift spot urine samples were collected on each participant. In personal particulate samples, 16 priority PAHs suggested by USEPA were measured, and in the urine samples oxidative stress biomarker (8-OHdG) was analyzed. The measured mean occupational exposed concentration of PM2.5 was 230.73g m(-3), and the mean p-PAHs exposed concentration was 319.90ng m(-3) for the selected workers. Urinary concentrations of 8-OHdG increased by two times following an 8-h work shift in participants. Significant positive associations were found between post-work shift urinary 8-OHdG and p-PAH concentrations. Our finding indicated that personal air exposures to PAHs originating from traffic emissions are important in increasing oxidative burdens in human body.

• 出版日期2018
• 单位天津理工大学; 大连理工大学; 中国农业科学院; 中国人民解放军总医院; 交通运输部天津水运工程科学研究所; 天津医科大学