Nicotine exposure and decontamination on tobacco harvesters' hands

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 407-413

  Curwin, Brian D ^a   Hein, Misty J ^a   Sanderson, Wayne T ^b   Nishioka, Marcia G ^c   Buhler, Wayne ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Green tobacco sickness; Hand exposure; Hand washing; Nicotine; Tobacco harvester

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); WATER; DISEASES; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; PLANTS (BOTANY); TOBACCO; WASHING;

HAND EXPOSURE; HAND WASHING; TOBACCO HARVESTERS;

HARVESTING; NICOTINE;

NICOTINE; SOAP; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOMETRY; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOBACCO; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECONTAMINATION; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; MALE; NICOTINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOUTH CAROLINA; TOBACCO;

HARVESTING; NICOTINE; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS; GEOMETRIC MEAN; GREEN TOBACCO SICKNESS; HAND EXPOSURE; HAND WASHING; HARVESTING MACHINES; TOBACCO HARVESTERS; TOBACCO PLANTS;

EID: 25844456705     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/meh112     Document Type: Article

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