COLCHIC Chemical Exposure Database: Information on Lead and Formaldehyde

Neurobehavioral disturbances arising from occupational toluene exposure

“…The estimated past exposure as well as the present measurements were checked against the data for the same period and the same printing tasks collected overall in France within the occupational exposure database of the Social Security System [Carton, 1995] and were found similar.…”

Descriptive analysis and comparison of two French occupational exposure databases: COLCHIC and SCOLA

“…The objectives of setting up COLCHIC were to centralize measurement data from various laboratories, to harmonize workplace sampling and air analysis methods, and to support chemical risk assessment in France. The data in COLCHIC led to several research projects focusing, for example, on exposure to lead, formaldehyde, and mineral fibers [Carton, ; Vincent and Jeandel, ; Lavoué et al, ; Kauffer and Vincent, ], as well as on exposure prediction models [Clerc et al, ].…”

“…MEGA and IMIS both include more than 1.6 million data points [Henn et al, ; Koppisch et al, ]. Others are more recent, such as the NEDB (1986) in the United Kingdom [Burns and Beaumont, ], SIREP (1996) in Italy [Scarselli et al, ], and COLCHIC (1986) [Carton, ; Vincent and Jeandel, ] and SCOLA (2007) in France.…”

Monte Carlo Simulation to Reconstruct Formaldehyde Exposure Levels from Summary Parameters Reported in the Literature

“…Three were epidemiological studies, mainly on the respiratory effects of formaldehyde exposure (Horvath et al, 1988;Imbus and Tochilin, 1988;Herbert et al, 1994). One article reported the summary of formaldehyde levels in the French occupational exposure database COLCHIC (Carton, 1995) while another reported results of different sampling methods for formaldehyde in a facility manufacturing wood panels (Wentrup et al, 1986).…”