Objective
The aim of the research is:
- to promote techniques for the sampling and analysis of nitrosamines and their precursors, adapted to the specific conditions of the workplaces
- to harmonize the sampling and analysis techniques applied by the three institutes
- to ascertain the level of pollution by nitrosamines and their precursors at workplaces in a coking plant and in its immediate environment.
Nitrosamines are now known to be dangerous carcinogens. Experiments on rats showed that inhalation or ingestion of dimethyl nitrosamine rapidly leads to liver cancer. In our environment, nitrosamines can be formed by the reaction of amines with nitrogen oxides.
Possible links between nitrosamines and cancer in man are currently being studied.
There are very few studies available at present on air pollution by nitrosamines relating to the various operations in coking plants. For this reason, the following institutes:
- DMT Gesellschaft fuer Forschung und Pruefung, Institut fuer Kokserzeugung und Kohlechemie (Germany)
- LECES (Laboratoire d'Etude et de Controle de l'Environnement Siderurgique - France)
- ISSeP (Institut Scientifique de Service Public - Belgium)
have decided that a joint study should be conducted in various European coking plants using proven sampling and analysis methods.
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