Method development for on-site monitoring of volatile organic compounds via portable TD-GC-MS: evaluation of the analytical performances of HAPSITE^® ER instrumentation and thermal desorption sampling media.

ABSTRACT: Determining worker exposure to hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air at levels exceeding the Permissible Exposure Limits and Recommended Exposure Limits established by the U.S. federal agencies of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), respectively, will continue to be an important part of environmental and occupational health risk assessments. The purpose of this work was to develop a reliable analytical method for rapid and on-site assessments of occupational VOC exposures using field-capable thermal desorption-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (TD-GC-MS) instrumentation (i.e. the HAPSITE^® ER). The experiments involved in this study included determining TD-GC-MS parameters suit

SUBMITTER: Smith ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11485277 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature