RT - Journal Article T1 - MONITORING OF LEAD POISONING IN SIMPLE WORKERS OF A COPYING CENTER BY FLAME ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY JF - MJIRI YR - 1996 JO - MJIRI VO - 10 IS - 1 UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1222-en.html SP - 69 EP - 72 AB - Inorganic lead compounds are used most widely in paint and pigment industries. Because of exposure to lead dust in workers in a copying center, we compared blood lead levels in these workers to normal individuals and investigated the relationship between job tenures of the workers and their blood lead levels. This survey was performed on 20 simple workers in a copying center of Tehran University. The ages of the workers were between 27 and 62 years, and job tenures of the workers were between I and 27 years. Our results indicated that 94% of the workers had high blood lead concentrations (>49.9 µg/dl) and only 6% showed acceptable (30-49.9 µg/dl) blood lead levels. Blood lead levels of these workers were significantly higher than that of controls (P LA eng UL http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1222-en.html M3 ER -