Department of Occupational Medicine, St Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Occup Med (Lond). 2022 Oct 18;72(7):492-494. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqac078.
A hospital cleaner developed acute respiratory distress after working with a chlorine dioxide-based disinfectant. The content of chlorine dioxide in the product is below the limit that would require the product to be labelled as hazardous to health, but we show with a simple estimation that the relevant threshold limit values for chlorine dioxide in the working atmosphere may be exceeded under normal use of the product. This may have implications for risk assessment of the use of such chlorine dioxide-based disinfectants and may warrant stricter regulations for labelling these products.
一名医院清洁工在使用二氧化氯基消毒剂后出现急性呼吸窘迫。该产品中的二氧化氯含量低于需要将其标记为对健康有害的限值，但我们通过简单的估计表明，在正常使用该产品的情况下，工作环境中二氧化氯的相关阈值限值可能会超标。这可能对使用此类二氧化氯基消毒剂的风险评估产生影响，并可能需要对这些产品的标签制定更严格的规定。
