Schenk Linda, Hansson Sven Ove, Rudén Christina, Gilek Michael
Södertörn University College, Huddinge, Sweden.
J Appl Toxicol. 2008 Oct;28(7):858-66. doi: 10.1002/jat.1349.
The occupational exposure limits (OELs) established by seven different national regulatory agencies of EU member states are compared with those of the European Commission (EC). The comparison concerned: (1) what chemicals have been selected, (2) the average level of exposure limits for all chemicals, and (3) the similarity between the OELs of different EU member states and the OELs recommended by the European Commission. The average level of the exposure limits has declined during the past 10 years in four of the five countries in our study for which historical data were available to us. Poland has not changed its level noticeably and Germany has increased it. Since the first list of indicative OELs was established by the EC, a few of the EU exposure limits have been lowered. The similarity index indicates that the exposure limits of EU member states are converging towards the European Commission's recommended OELs. Still, the average level of OELs differs between organizations--the Estonian OELs are on average 35% higher than the Polish OELs.
将欧盟成员国七个不同国家监管机构制定的职业接触限值(OELs)与欧盟委员会(EC)的限值进行了比较。比较涉及:(1)选择了哪些化学品,(2)所有化学品的接触限值平均水平,以及(3)不同欧盟成员国的OELs与欧盟委员会推荐的OELs之间的相似性。在我们研究的五个国家中,有四个国家在过去10年中,有历史数据可供我们使用,其接触限值的平均水平有所下降。波兰的水平没有明显变化,而德国则有所提高。自欧盟委员会制定第一份指示性OELs清单以来,一些欧盟接触限值已经降低。相似性指数表明,欧盟成员国的接触限值正朝着欧盟委员会推荐的OELs趋同。不过,各组织之间OELs的平均水平仍存在差异——爱沙尼亚的OELs平均比波兰的OELs高35%。