Working Group Analytical Chemistry of the Commission of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area.

Organization – Objectives and operational procedure – Development, examination, release and quality of the analytical methods – Publications of the working group – Withdrawal of methods.

Terms and symbols used.

Terminology – symbols.

General Remarks.

The use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in biological monitoring.

Analytical Methods.

Alkoxycarboxylic acids in urine as metabolites of glycol ethers with a primary alcohol group.

Aminodinitrotoluenes in urine as metabolites of trinitrotoluene.

Bromide in plasma and serum.

3,4-Dichlorocatechol and 4,5-dichlorocatechol in urine.

Furan-2-carboxylic acid and other carboxylic acids (phenylglyoxylic acid, mandelic acid, t,t-muconic acid, benzoic acid, hydroxybenzoic acid, hippuric acid, methylhippuric acid, 2,4-dichlorobenzoic acid, 3-methyl-4-nitro-benzoic acid, TTCA).

Manganese in blood.

Methylmercury in blood.

Perfluorooctanoic acid in plasma.

Perfluorooctane sulphonic acid and perfluorobutane sulphonic acid in plasma and urine.

Titanium in blood and urine.

3,5,6-Trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPyr) in urine.

Members and Guests of the Working Subgroup Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials of the Commission of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area.