Exposure to inhalable flour dust in canadian flour mills

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1022-1030

  Karpinski, Eva A ^a  

^a Hum Rsrc Development Canada (HRDC)   (Canada)

Author keywords

37 mm cassettes; Exposure levels; Flour dust; Flour mill workers; Inhalable total dust relationship; Iom samplers

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DUST EXPOSURE; FACE MASK; FLOUR; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TECHNOLOGY; WORKER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CANADA; DUST; FILTRATION; FLOUR; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES;

EID: 0348049725     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/714044192     Document Type: Article

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