Historical limitations of determinant based exposure groupings in the rubber manufacturing industry

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 793-799

  Vermeulen, R ^a   Kromhout, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXANE; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DUST; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INHALATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SKIN ABSORPTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RUBBER; SKIN ABSORPTION;

EID: 27644481221     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.016329     Document Type: Article

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