Human biomonitoring of chemical exposure in the workplace: method development and application to chromates study. KU Leuven
The most used biomarker for the biomonitoring of Cr(VI) exposure is the total amount of Cr in urine. This biomarker is not specific for Cr(VI), since it measures exposure both to trivalent chromium [Cr(III)] and Cr(VI). Therefore, it is important to test the correlation between Cr(VI) exposure and more specific biomarkers in different work tasks. Even if the total amount of Cr in urine will remain the gold standard for the routine ...