"Threshold Limit Values" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Standards for limiting worker exposure to airborne contaminants. They are the maximum concentration in air at which it is believed that a particular substance will not produce adverse health effects with repeated daily exposure. It can be a time-weighted average (TLV-TWA), a short-term value (TLV-STEL), or an instantaneous value (TLV-Ceiling). They are expressed either as parts per million (ppm) or milligram per cubic meter (mg/m3).
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D020711
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N03.706.615.917 N06.850.460.350.600.807
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Threshold Limit Values" by people in Profiles.
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Establishing a threshold for 131I bioassay in nuclear medicine personnel. Health Phys. 2008 Nov; 95(5 Suppl):S175-9.