Anforderungen an die Messung und Begutachtung der Schadstoffbelastung in der Luft von Importcontainern

Boels, Detlef; Krutisch, Ingrid; Fahrenholtz, Svea; Baur, Xaver; Budnik, Lygia Therese

doi:10.1007/bf03344270

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“…The state labour inspection office (Health and Safety Executive Hamburg) in cooperation with the Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine (ZfAM) in 2010 developed a catalogue of minimal requirements needed to be fulfilled for such analysis and the evaluation system. It is free to the logistic companies to choose the laboratory as long as they comply with the minimal requirement system established [6]. The transit container receipt has to indicate information about a possible chemical hazard, if present.…”

Section: Container Monitoring For Hazards: Hamburg Customs Model Presmentioning

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How to handle import containers safely

Baur

Horneland²,

Fischer³

et al. 2014

International Maritime Health

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Section: Container Monitoring For Hazards: Hamburg Customs Model Presmentioning

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How to handle import containers safely

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Horneland²,

Fischer³

et al. 2014

International Maritime Health

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“…Importcontainer akut lebensbedrohliche Schadstoffkonzentrationen enthält [3], jeder siebte Arbeitsplatzgrenzwerte und etwa 70% verbraucherbezogene Richtwerte überschreiten und gleichzeitig derartig belastete Container und Importwaren nur in Ausnahmefällen als gesundheitsgefährdend gekennzeichnet sind [5,20], sollten Importcontainer grundsätzlich erst nach intensiver Lüftung und/ oder Schadstoffanalytik betreten werden. Im Zweifelsfall sind hierbei geeignete persönliche Schutzmaßnahmen anzuwenden (Tragen von Schutzanzug, Schutzhandschuhen, Atemmaske mit Filter) [4]. Waren aus belasteten Containern sollten nicht unmittelbar in den Handel gelangen.…”

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“…Waren aus belasteten Containern sollten nicht unmittelbar in den Handel gelangen. Anzumerken ist, dass die Analytik der meisten der festgestellten Substanzen bisher kein Routineverfahren darstellt und hohe Anforderungen an die Messtechnik hinsichtlich Sensitivität und Spezifität bestehen [4]. An die im-portierenden Unternehmen ist zu appellieren, von ihren Lieferanten und Transporteuren Schadstofffreiheit einzufordern.…”

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“…Belastungen durch weitere SchadstoffeEin unerwartetes Nebenergebnis unserer Studie[3,4,6] und auch anderer Untersuchungen[8,13,20] war, dass Importcontainer und Waren neben Begasungsmittelresten häufig mit flüchtigen toxischen Industriechemikalien wie Formaldehyd, Benzol und/oder Toluol in zum Teil hohen Konzentrationen belastet sind. Bezüglich der damit verbundenen Gesundheitsrisiken bedarf es noch ergänzender Analysen und ggf.…”

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Gesundheitsrisiken durch Begasungsmittelreste in Importcontainern

Baur¹,

Budnik²,

Preisser³

2010

Dtsch med Wochenschr

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The increasing transport of goods worldwide is mainly carried in standard containers. These containers are frequently fumigated in order to protect freight from pests and to follow regulations of importing countries. Fumigants as well as toxic industrial chemicals can adsorb to goods and be emitted from them over various periods of time. This review is based on a literature search, analyses of air samples from a randomized selection of import containers at the port of Hamburg and clinical investigations of intoxicated subject. These data indicate that about 70% of imported containers exceed national or international threshold levels, about one sixth exceeding occupational exposure limits of fumigants and/or toxic industrial chemical, 0.5% had concentrations immediately dangerous to life or health. Intoxications by inhalation mainly occur in workers in the logistics area. No information exists on possible fumigation in small and medium-sized companies where the container units are unloaded. Neurological and respiratory ailments dominated in patients from our outpatient clinic and those reported in the literature: symptoms were often misdiagnosed. Our results confirm findings of other investigators that subjects who unload containers or have otherwise intensive contact with imported goods are frequently exposed to toxic or very toxic volatile chemicals. It can be assumed that there are many unrecognized cases and also health risks to the ultimate consumers of transported goods. History taking targeted on potential exposure is of great diagnostic importance in elucidating typical temporal relationship between exposure by inhalation and symptoms such as headache, skin irritation, cough, dyspnea, diarrhoea and neurological deficits. Detailed investigations by medical specialists is necessary to confirm suspected diagnoses. This should be combined with immediate special analyses of air samples and laboratory tests (biological monitoring).

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