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Quantification of Short and Long Asbestos Fibers to Assess Asbestos Exposure: a Review of Fiber Size Toxicity Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: a review of fiber size toxicity. Guillaume Boulanger, Pascal Andujar, Jean-Claude Pairon, Marie-Annick Billon-Galland, Chantal Dion, Pascal Dumortier, Patrick Brochard, Annie Sobaszek, Pierre Bartsch, Christophe Paris, et al. To cite this version: Guillaume Boulanger, Pascal Andujar, Jean-Claude Pairon, Marie-Annick Billon-Galland, Chantal Dion, et al.. Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: areviewof fiber size toxicity.. Environmental health : a global access science source [electronic resource], 2014, 13, pp.59. 10.1186/1476-069X-13-59. inserm-01073918 HAL Id: inserm-01073918 https://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-01073918 Submitted on 10 Oct 2014 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Boulanger et al. Environmental Health 2014, 13:59 http://www.ehjournal.net/content/13/1/59 REVIEW Open Access Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: a review of fiber size toxicity Guillaume Boulanger1, Pascal Andujar2,3,4, Jean-Claude Pairon2,3,4, Marie-Annick Billon-Galland5, Chantal Dion6,7, Pascal Dumortier8, Patrick Brochard9, Annie Sobaszek10,11, Pierre Bartsch12, Christophe Paris13,14 and Marie-Claude Jaurand15,16* Abstract The fibrogenicity and carcinogenicity of asbestos fibers are dependent on several fiber parameters including fiber dimensions. Based on the WHO (World Health Organization) definition, the current regulations focalise on long asbestos fibers (LAF) (Length: L ≥ 5 μm, Diameter: D < 3 μm and L/D ratio > 3). However air samples contain short asbestos fibers (SAF) (L < 5 μm). In a recent study we found that several air samples collected in buildings with − asbestos containing materials (ACM) were composed only of SAF, sometimes in a concentration of ≥10 fibers.L 1.This exhaustive review focuses on available information from peer-review publications on the size-dependent pathogenetic effects of asbestos fibers reported in experimental in vivo and in vitro studies. In the literature, the findings that SAF are less pathogenic than LAF are based on experiments where a cut-off of 5 μm was generally made to differentiate short from long asbestos fibers. Nevertheless, the value of 5 μm as the limit for length is not based on scientific evidence, but is a limit for comparative analyses. From this review, it is clear that the pathogenicity of SAF cannot be completely ruled out, especially in high exposure situations. Therefore, the presence of SAF in air samples appears as an indicator of the degradation of ACM and inclusion of their systematic search should be considered in the regulation. Measurement of these fibers in air samples will then make it possible to identify pollution and anticipate health risk. Keywords: Asbestos, Air pollution, Environmental exposure, Occupational exposure, Toxicity, Particle size, Fiber Background removal procedures, or in buildings with altered asbes- Asbestos remains a public health concern. After a long tos containing material (ACM). In addition, environ- latency period, asbestos exposure in humans is associ- mental exposures have been reported. In this context, it ated with severe diseases, including mesothelioma, lung is important to monitor the level of asbestos fibers in cancer and fibrosis. Although asbestos has been banned such environments, in order to avoid a new wave of as- in several countries, many other countries still produce bestos diseases. and/or use it. Epidemiological findings have depicted Regulatory threshold levels for asbestos exposure are several waves of asbestos diseases. One may consider based on size-dependent fiber concentrations. Accord- the first wave having occurred in miners, the second ing to the World Health Organization (WHO), only one in workers in the asbestos manufacturing industry, fibers thinner than 3 μm, longer than 5 μmanda and the third wave among secondary occupations in length-width ratio above 3 (so-called here long asbestos buildings and constructions. Nowadays, even in coun- fibers (LAF)) are taken into account for regulatory pur- trieswhereasbestoswasbanned,workersandthegen- poses. Short asbestos fibers (SAF) (length (L) < 5 μm; eral public can be exposed during incorrectly performed diameter (d) < 3 μm and length/diameter ratio > 3) are not taken into account. The optical microscopy proced- * Correspondence: [email protected] ure also excludes thin LAF with a diameter of less than 15 Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France 0.2 μm. 16INSERM, UMR-674, Labex Immuno-oncology, Paris, France Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2014 Boulanger et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. Boulanger et al. Environmental Health 2014, 13:59 Page 2 of 18 http://www.ehjournal.net/content/13/1/59 In the course of a collective appraisal conducted by SAF is a health concern, and alert on the degradation of the ANSESa working group, air samples collected be- ACM. tween 1997 and 2004 in a range of French public build- ings (gymnasiums, schools, day-care centers, etc.) were analysed a second time in order to assess the size distri- Human exposure to asbestos fibers bution of asbestos fibers including SAF [1]. Among the Size distribution of asbestos fibers in the environment 105 samples analysed and positive for asbestos, the In the present paper, we report original data of several results showed that 40 samples contained only SAF, analyses requested by ANSES carried out using trans- − sometimes in concentrations above 10 f.L 1.Currently, mission electron microscopy (TEM) [2] (Additional these fibers are not taken into consideration for regula- file 1). Only few publications dealing with the asbestos tory purposes. fiber size distribution are then compared to our new While it is widely agreed that long fibers are more data. In France, measurement of exposure in the occu- toxic than short ones, the safety of SAF is not estab- pational environment was based on the phase contrast lished, and it appears worthwhile addressing the ques- microscopy (PCM) method [3] until 2012, and is now tion of the scientific bases substantiating measurement based on the TEM method, as environmental exposure of airborne fiber concentrations for regulatory purposes, [2]. Currently, only WHO fibers (L ≥ 5 μm, D < 3 μm and of our knowledge about the biological activity of and L/D > 3) are counted in the French legislation SAF. In this paper, we report the original results of the to assess both exposure of workers and general re-analysis of air samples focusing on the respective population. concentrations of SAF and LAF. To review the role of The PCM method presents a number of limitations as it asbestos fiber dimensions on health risk, we performed does not identify the nature of the fiber, and does not assess an in-depth analysis of the relevant epidemiological and SAF and LAF with a diameter < 0.2 μm. However it is an toxicological data collected from the peer-reviewed and international standard in occupational hygiene, as it is easy, grey literature. In particular, we specially reviewed rapid and has low cost. In contrast, there is no international experimental literature data which determined the role standard for the use of TEM, and the method may vary by of fiber size in the biological effects of asbestos fibers, country or laboratory (direct or indirect transfer method) and summarized the mechanisms of action of asbestos or use of analytical scanning electron microscopy. In both fibers focusing on the impact of fiber dimensions. We direct and indirect methods, only fibers greater than 5 μm reviewed experimental and epidemiological papers on in length are currently counted (L ≥ 5 μm, L/D > 3, 0.2 the size-dependent toxic effects of asbestos fibers. μm<D<3μmwithPCMorD<3μm with TEM). Due to Papers were searched in PubMed with these groups of the different sensitivities between the two methods and the keywords: “asbestos toxicity”, “epidemiology OR animal absence of fiber type identification in PCM, there is no reli- OR in vitro”, “short OR long”. Papers dealing with the able modeling method allowing comparing PCM and TEM effects of fiber dimensions were selected, as well as pa- values. Conversion factors have been suggested, to compare pers where the distribution of fiber dimensions was re- data obtained with the two methods but they differ between ported, not directly focusing on the effects of fiber size. studies, ranging from 1.7 to 4, sometimes reaching 30 in We also considered independently all review papers. The certain
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