The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists recommends a threshold limit value-ceiling (TLV-C) of 0.1 ppb for occupational exposure to ortho-phthalaldehyde (OPA) used in washing endoscope probes. To adhere to this extremely low exposure limit, this case study aimed to reduce OPA exposure concentrations of workers during immersion washing of an endoscope probe body. This was achieved by attaching a new duct and hood to the existing ceiling exhaust system.
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