[The classification of industrial chemical allergens]

The classification of industrial chemical allergenic compounds has been developed. The criterion of noxious effect of allergenic chemicals is described not only by experimentally valid allergenic signs of the compound but also by clinical manifestations of allergosis in workers and sanitary diagnostic reliability of occupational allergic diseases. Numerous allergens are classified according to the chemical systematization of compounds. The classification contains 2 classes: the 1st class involves inorganic and elementoorganic compounds, the 2nd one--organic compounds. The first class has 7 subclasses, each of them covers compounds of one of the series of the 2nd-6th periods of Mendeleeff's periodic table. The second class has 3 subclasses, combining the compound derivatives of acyclic (2.1), aromatic and alicyclic (2.2), and heterocyclic hydrocarbons (2.3).