Proceedings of the Korea Society of Environmental Toocicology Conference (한국환경독성학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2003.10a
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- Pages.160-161
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- 2003
Initial Risk Assessment of Benzoyl Peroxide in OECD High Production Volume Chemical Program
- Heekyung Bae (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Kim, Su-Hyon (Biotoxtech Co., Ltd.) ;
- Kim, Mi-Kyoung (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Sanghwan Song (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Hyunju Koo (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Lee, Moon-Soon (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Jeon, Seong-Hwan (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Na, Jin-Gyun (National Institute of Environmental Research) ;
- Park, Kwangsik (College of Pharmacy, Dongduk Womans University)
- Published : 2003.10.01
Abstract
In Korea, 1, 357 tonnes of benzoyl peroxide was produced as a white granule with purities ranging 22 to 95％ in 2001. 75% of benzoyl peroxide is mainly used in the manufacture of expandable styrene polymer and other resins as initiators of polymerization and also been used in the treatment of acne vulgaris and the medical product contains mainly 5 to 10% of it. A very small portion of benzoyl Peroxide is used as flour bleaching agent, Potential human exposure from workplaces is expected to be negligible because this chemical is produced in closed system in only one company in Korea and when a production facility monitors its workplace for the worker exposure annually, the concentration of airborne aerosols at the personal sampling has been less than 1mg/㎥.
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