Table 1.
Investigations of benzene concentrations in petroleum refineries.
| Reference | Description | Country | Sampling Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| [11] | Cytogenic biomonitoring on a group of petroleum refinery workers | Italy (two different Italian petroleum refineries) | P * |
| [2] | Cytogenic effects of Bulgarian petroleum refinery workers chronically exposed to benzene | Bulgaria (NEFTOCHIM oil company in Burgas) | P * and S * |
| [19] | Retrospective exposure assessment for benzene in the Australian petroleum industry | Australia (nine companies with employees participating in health watch) | BE * |
| [20] | Ensuring comparability of benzene exposure estimates across three nested case-control studies in the petroleum industry in support of a pooled epidemiological analysis | Canada, Australia, United Kingdom | BE * |
| [21] | Retrospective estimation of exposure to benzene in a leukaemia case-control study of petroleum marketing and distribution workers in the United Kingdom | United Kingdom (four companies in the petroleum marketing and distribution industry in the UK) | BE * |
| [1] | Seasonal variation of toxic benzene emissions in petroleum refinery | India (Digboi petroleum refinery at Gowahati | S * |
| [22] | Monitoring and analysis of volatile organic compounds around an oil refinery | Italy (a petroleum refinery in Valle Galeria, Rome) | S * |
| [10] | Volatile organic compounds in ambient air of Kaohsiung petroleum refinery | Taiwan, Kaohsiung refinery | S * |
* P, personal sampling; S, static sampling; BE, base estimate.