Health surveillance in milling, baking and other food manufacturing operations - Five years' experience

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 147-153

  Smith, T A ^a   Patton, J ^a  

^a Ranks Hovis McDougall Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amylase; Asthma; Flour; Rhinitis

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; EMPLOYEE; FLOUR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIZATION;

AMYLASES; ASTHMA; DUST; FLOUR; FOOD HANDLING; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0032924010     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/49.3.147     Document Type: Article

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