[Hygienic characteristics of work conditions and health state parameters in workers of chemical enterprise complex].

The authors presented hygienic characteristics of industrial processes in chemical industrial complex (methacrylic acid, sodium cyanide) and results of work conditions influence on workers' health state through periodic medical examinations data.

[Occupational hygiene during pesticide use]. / Voprosy gigieny truda pri primenenii pestitsidov.

The study covered assortment and amount of pesticides varying in purpose and chemical class and applied in Saratov region in 2002 vs in 1980s and 1990s. Findings are changed assortment, occurrence of new generation pesticides, significantly lower pesticide load, and seed mordants predominant over other pesticide groups. These findings necessitate special attention to occupational hygiene for health preservation among rural agricultural workers.

[Effects of chemical factors on health of the population in various regions of Russia]. / Vliianie khimicheskikh faktorov na zdorov'e naseleniia razlichnykh regionov Rossii.

Wide use of chemicals in agriculture is associated with higher morbidity among inhabitants of agricultural regions. Extreme increase of the morbidity is confined to the area subjected to releases of oil-processing and petrochemical enterprises and therefore results from combined exposure to agricultural chemicals and waste of oil-processing.

[The establishment of the maximum permissible concentration of orlok in the air of a work area when used in agriculture]. / Obosnovanie predel'no dopustimoi kontsentratsii orloka v vozdukhe rabochei zony pri primenenii v sel'skom khoziaistve.

Inhaled Orlok causes changes in the CNS, blood morphology, renal function. The threshold concentration of Orlok is 0.17 mg/m3, its subthreshold concentration is 0.023 mg/m3, MAC in the workplace air is 0.05 mg/m3.

[Prognostication in chronic pesticide poisoning in agricultural workers: state of lipid metabolism]. / Prognozirovanie khronicheskoi intoksikatsii pestitsidami u sel'skokhoziaistvennykh rabochikh po sostoianiiu lipidnogo obmena.

The authors discuss a possibility to estimate risk of chronic intoxication by 2,4-D agricultural preparations and phosphorus organic pesticides among rural inhabitants having occupational contact with the chemicals. The estimation could be based on lipid metabolism parameters.