Assessment of an aerosol treatment to improve air quality in a swine concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO)

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 9649-9655

  Rule, Ana M ^a   Chapin, Amy R ^a   McCarthy, Sheila A ^a   Gibson, Kristen E ^a   Schwab, Kellogg J ^a   Buckley, Timothy J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; REDUCTION;

AIRBORNE BACTERIA LEVELS; CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION (CAFO); FARM PRODUCTION; PANICULATE MATTER (PM);

AEROSOLS;

AMMONIA;

AIR QUALITY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SWINE;

ACIDS; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ALCOHOLS; AMMONIA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; OILS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; POSIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 29244436852     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0501316     Document Type: Article

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