Cancer among meat industry workers

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 425-437

  McLean, Dave ^a,b   Pearce, Neil ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Abattoir; Cancer, lung; Disease, occupational; Exposure, occupational; Leukemia; Lymphoma; Neoplasm, hematologic; Product, meat; Review; Slaughterhouse

Indexed keywords

ALDRIN; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; ESTRADIOL; GROWTH PROMOTOR; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; LINDANE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; ZERANOL;

CANCER; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM TUMOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOSARCOMA; MEAT INDUSTRY; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOSARCOMA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SMOKING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 11044224914     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.831     Document Type: Review

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