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Baranowska-Dutkiewicz B, Rozanska R, Dutkiewicz T. 1992. Occupational and environmental exposure to nickel in Poland. Pol J Occup Med Env Health 5(4) 335-343. 

In July 2002, Dr. Nilsson accepted an appointment as professor in toxicology at the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine WHO Collaborating Centre in Lodz, Poland. As part of his responsibility, he advises the new Polish government about creating and supervising a modern regulatory system for chemicals control. 

The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) (1997) has not proposed any occupational exposure limits for isoprene in workplace air. Poland has an 8-h time-weighted average threshold limit value of 100 mg/m and Russia has a short-term exposure limit of 40 mg/m for exposure in workplace air (International Labour Office, 1991)... 

Acute exposure to 2,3,7,8-TCDD in a chemical laboratory induced the development of chloracne in two of three individuals within 8 weeks of the exposure (Oliver 1975). Chloracne occurred in workers occupationally exposed to 2,3,7,8-TCDD during the manufacture of herbicides (Bond et al. 1989b Moses and Prioleau 1985 Poland et al. 1971) and after industrial accidents in several locations throughout the world (Goldman 1973 May 1973 Moses et al. 1984 Pocchiari et al. 1979 Suskind and Hertzberg 1984). 

Accidental exposure to 2,3,7,8-TCDD in a 1949 explosion in a trichlorophenol plant in Nitro, West Virginia, resulted in an outbreak of severe chloracne. Moses et al. (1984) conducted a cross-sectional survey of workers in this plant in 1979. In reviewing the impact of the accident, the authors indicated that 117 workers had severe chloracne as a result of the explosion however, 111 additional workers were found to have had chloracne prior to the explosion. A cross-sectional study of 226 workers in 1979 indicated that 52% had chloracne which persisted for 26 years, and in 29 subjects it was still present after 30 years. Blood levels were not measured, but the air dust in the plant was suspected to have contained 2,4,5-T contaminated with 6 ppm 2,3,7,8-TCDD compared to 0.1 ppm in later years. Similarly, high incidences of chloracne were also found in other facilities (Jirasek et al. 1976 May 1973 Poland et al. 1971 Vos et al. 1978). Appearance of chloracne after accidental occupational exposure may be immediate or delayed since workers may not always be removed from the work environment, the duration of exposure and total exposure is difficult to assess. 

Sam Ruben s grandfather, Jacob Rubinstein, was born about 1864 in Ostralenka, Poland, near the Russia-Poland border. In his spare time he was a Talmudic Scholar. He worked at various occupations, as a clerk, a buyer and seller of goods, and as a smuggler. For example, he purchased silks and tobacco in Danzig and smuggled them into Ostralenka. For forty-four years of his life he lived in Poland, and in 1908 he immigrated to New York. In 1910 he became a naturalized American citizen. He died on April 1938 in Bronx, NY, at seventy-three years of age. 

Otto Kaufmann studied law and political sciences. Doctorate degree in law postdoctoral lecture and research qualification, Habilitation, HDR. He is currently employed as a Senior Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich, and teaches at Robert Schuman de Strasbourg, where he has been associate professor since 1998, and Rennes 1 universities. He has moreover held guest lectures at various universities, e.g. in 2006 and 2007, at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, on the subject of European policies and labour and social security law. His fields of activity above all include German and French labour and social security law, as well as international and European social law. Focal point of his research are comparative law social relations junctions and boundaries between labour and social law sickness insurance, invalidity and old-age protection, notably supplementary and employment-related schemes juridical comparisons of occupational pension plans unemployment, employability, exclusion, and labour policies in comparative studies. Many of his publications deal with labour and social law issues from a comparative law perspective, as well as... 

A similar study was carried out in a coke plant in Zabrze, Poland (Bieniek 1997). The concentrations of 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol in the urine of 102 workers from the coke plant were compared with those of 36 controls not occupationally exposed to coal tar volatiles. Significant differences were found between the concentrations of 1- and 2-naphthols in the urine of exposed and unexposed workers (P<0.05). The correlation between the concentrations of naphthols in urine and napthalene in air were statistically significant (P<0.001). 

Poland AP, Smith D, Metter G, et al A health survey of workers in a 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T plant. Arch Environ Health 22 316-327,1971 Thiess AM, Frentzel-Beyme R, Link R Mortality study of persons exposed to dioxin in a trichlorophenol-process accident that occurred in the BASF AG on November 17, 1953. Am J Ind Med 3 179-189,1982 Zober A, Messerer P, Huber P Thirty-four-year mortality follow-up of BASF employees exposed to 2,3,7,8-TCDD after the 1953 accident. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 62 139-157, 1990... 

Dr. William Kolff was a hospital intern in Groningen, Holland when World War II began in Poland. When the German Army conquered Ms country a year later, Kolff transferred to the small Municipal Hospital in quiet Kampen to escape the close scrutiny of the Nazis. It was there, during the desperate days of Nazi occupation, that Kolff developed the first artificial kidney (Fenster, 1998). 

Pirogova EP, Katyukhina ZD (1970) Artificial dermatitis caused by garlic. Vestn Dermatol Venerol 44 53-54 Reif JS, Webb PA, Monath TP, Emerson JK, Poland JD, Kemp GE, Cholas G (1987) Epizootic vesicular stomatitis in Colorado, 1982 infection in occupational risk groups. Am J Trop Med Hyg 36 177-182... 

Warsaw. However, since universities and other academic schools in Poland were closed by the German occupants during the war, he could take this position only several years later, after the end of the war in the spring of 1945. 

Jedryehowski, W., Whyatt, R. M., Camann, D. E., Bawle, U. V., Peki, K., Spengler, J. D., Dumyahn, T. S., Penar, A. Perera, F. F. (2003). Effect of prenatal PAH exposure on birth outeomes and neurocognitive development in a cohort of newborns in Poland. Study design and preliminary ambient data. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 16, 21-29. 

After returning from a 1-week missionary trip to Haiti, DENV infection was confirmed in seven (25%). None practiced correct vector bite prevention strategies 6.3% Seroprevalence among forestry workers and the odds of a recalled tick bite were five times higher among outdoor workers In Poland in 2009,664 /10.333 (6.4%) cases were certified as resulting from an occupational exposure among forest workers... 

U. Wilczyhska, and N.S.W. Szeszenia-D ibrowska. Occupational diseases in Poland, 2009, Medycyna Pracy Occupational Medicine), 61, 369-379, 2010. 

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