A critical evaluation of the scientific basis of the MAK Commission's new general threshold limit values for dust

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 303-314

  McLaughlin, Joseph K ^a,b   Lipworth, Loren ^a,b   Marano, Donald E ^c   Tarone, Robert ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c IHI Environmental   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA ANALYSIS; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FOUNDRY; GERMANY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCIENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DUST; GERMANY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES;

EID: 0034928688     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007948     Document Type: Review

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