Annals of Occupational Hygiene Advance Access originally published online on September 18, 2007
Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2007 51(7):648-649; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mem042
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Mr Walker makes several points regarding the paper by Creely et al. (2006). Some of these points are best answered by the authors of this paper, others concern the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) method MDHS 25/3 (HSE, 1999). I will reply on these points and leave the others to Creely et al. in their accompanying reply.
As a general comment, HSL has, with the support of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), carried out extensive validation and experimental work on MDHS 25 over a period of
30 years. MDHS 25/3, in addition to being the method of choice for HSE/HSL, is an
HSE METHOD MDHS 25
SAMPLING PROCEDURES
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