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Formaldehyde Exposure and Its Potential Health Risk in Some Beauty Salons in Kumasi Metropolis

Cosmetologists may be potentially exposed to high levels of formaldehyde as a result of their exposure to formaldehyde released from the various cosmetic products used in the beauty salons. In order to assess the exposure of cosmetologists to formaldehyde, the indoor air in sixty beauty salons acros...

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Autores principales: Asare-Donkor, Noah Kyame, Kusi Appiah, James, Torve, Vincent, Voegborlo, Ray Bright, Adimado, Anthony Apeke
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Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7661109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204257
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8875167
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author Asare-Donkor, Noah Kyame
Kusi Appiah, James
Torve, Vincent
Voegborlo, Ray Bright
Adimado, Anthony Apeke
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description Cosmetologists may be potentially exposed to high levels of formaldehyde as a result of their exposure to formaldehyde released from the various cosmetic products used in the beauty salons. In order to assess the exposure of cosmetologists to formaldehyde, the indoor air in sixty beauty salons across the ten submetros in Kumasi were sampled to determine the formaldehyde levels and the associated noncarcinogenic human health risks. Sampling was done using System Service Innovation Incorporation air sampler model 1000i, and the MBTH spectrophotometric method was used for analysis. The mean levels of formaldehyde concentrations ranged from 88.67 to 170.67 µg/m(3). Out of the sixty salons sampled, 36 salons had formaldehyde levels above the WHO permissible limit of 100 µg/m(3) for an eight-hour working period and also exceeded the 55 and 9 µg/m(3) for chronic and acute reference exposure limit, respectively, set by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The results of this study revealed that the number of customers that visit the salon in a week, number of salon services offered, and age of salon had a positive significant correlation with the level of formaldehyde determined in each salon. The health risk study also revealed that about 50% of the salons had hazard quotient (HQ) above the safety limit (HQ = 1) and may, therefore, pose health risks to cosmetologists in these salons. Results from the analysis of the questionnaire revealed that hairdressers in salons that provide the entire range of salon services captured in the study are at higher risk to the effects of formaldehyde.
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spelling pubmed-76611092020-11-16 Formaldehyde Exposure and Its Potential Health Risk in Some Beauty Salons in Kumasi Metropolis Asare-Donkor, Noah Kyame Kusi Appiah, James Torve, Vincent Voegborlo, Ray Bright Adimado, Anthony Apeke J Toxicol Research Article Cosmetologists may be potentially exposed to high levels of formaldehyde as a result of their exposure to formaldehyde released from the various cosmetic products used in the beauty salons. In order to assess the exposure of cosmetologists to formaldehyde, the indoor air in sixty beauty salons across the ten submetros in Kumasi were sampled to determine the formaldehyde levels and the associated noncarcinogenic human health risks. Sampling was done using System Service Innovation Incorporation air sampler model 1000i, and the MBTH spectrophotometric method was used for analysis. The mean levels of formaldehyde concentrations ranged from 88.67 to 170.67 µg/m(3). Out of the sixty salons sampled, 36 salons had formaldehyde levels above the WHO permissible limit of 100 µg/m(3) for an eight-hour working period and also exceeded the 55 and 9 µg/m(3) for chronic and acute reference exposure limit, respectively, set by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The results of this study revealed that the number of customers that visit the salon in a week, number of salon services offered, and age of salon had a positive significant correlation with the level of formaldehyde determined in each salon. The health risk study also revealed that about 50% of the salons had hazard quotient (HQ) above the safety limit (HQ = 1) and may, therefore, pose health risks to cosmetologists in these salons. Results from the analysis of the questionnaire revealed that hairdressers in salons that provide the entire range of salon services captured in the study are at higher risk to the effects of formaldehyde. Hindawi 2020-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7661109/ /pubmed/33204257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8875167 Text en Copyright © 2020 Noah Kyame Asare-Donkor et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Adimado, Anthony Apeke
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title_full Formaldehyde Exposure and Its Potential Health Risk in Some Beauty Salons in Kumasi Metropolis
title_fullStr Formaldehyde Exposure and Its Potential Health Risk in Some Beauty Salons in Kumasi Metropolis
title_full_unstemmed Formaldehyde Exposure and Its Potential Health Risk in Some Beauty Salons in Kumasi Metropolis
title_short Formaldehyde Exposure and Its Potential Health Risk in Some Beauty Salons in Kumasi Metropolis
title_sort formaldehyde exposure and its potential health risk in some beauty salons in kumasi metropolis
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7661109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204257
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8875167
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