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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study has shown that if testing were done in workplaces where chemo is prepared or administered, there would be some amount of contamination. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has no regulations that specifically protect health-care workers from exposure to toxic drugs, something which countries like Germany, Austria, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France and Canada, have or are working on. OSHA has not issued many regulations in the past two decades, and regulations relating to toxic exposure have come from specific exposures and diseases. Experts say that to effectively measure the effects of contamination, regulations for environmental monitoring and employee tracking would have to be put in place.