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SRC-HANDRUB-2012 · PRIMARY

Assessment of Exposure to Alcohol Vapor from Alcohol-Based Hand Rubs

Vincent Bessonneau & Olivier Thomas · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Lifecycleactive
Published2012-03-13
DOI10.3390/ijerph9030868
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LIFECYCLE REVIEW

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TOPICS
hand rubshand sanitiseralcohol vapourinhalation
CLM-HANDRUB-001

Alcohol vapour while using hand rub ↗

During hygienic hand disinfection with alcohol-based hand rubs, alcohol vapour in the user's breathing zone peaked about 20 to 30 seconds into the procedure.

Two hand rubs measured under test conditions; it reports inhaled alcohol, not odour or added fragrance.
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Permanent identifier smellbook:source:alcohol-vapour-from-hand-rubs-2012 · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.