Summary

This eighth volume in the series provides standardized methods for analyzing chemical compounds of current significance in industrial medicine. All the methods are reliable, reproducible and meet the requirements for quality control. In each case a description is given of the general principles involved, details of equipment, chemicals and solution preparation, calibration standards, sample collection and preparation, experimental conditions, procedure for calibration and analysis, calculation of results, performance evaluation, discussion and references. Throughout, considerable emphasis is placed on sample collection methods and on analytical quality control: every method is checked by at least one examine.