Wheat antigen content of inhalable dust in bakeries: Modeling and an inter-study comparison

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 791-798

  Burstyn, Igor ^a   Heederik, Dick ^a,b   Bartlett, Karen ^a   Doekes, Gert ^a   Houba, Remko ^c   Teschke, Kay ^b   Kennedy, Susan M ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Occupational Health Service Roermond   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bakery; Exposure Assessment; Exposure Modeling; Flour; Occupational Exposure; Wheat Antigen

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; DUST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOUR; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHEAT;

ANTIGENS; CANADA; COOKERY; DUST; FLOUR; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRITICUM;

EID: 0033432810     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104732299302224     Document Type: Article

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