Personal exposures to inorganic and organic dust in manual harvest of California citrus and table grapes

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 505-514

  Lee, Kiyoung ^a   Lawson, Robert J ^a   Olenchock, Stephen A ^b   Vallyathan, Val ^b   Southard, Randal J ^a   Thorne, Peter S ^c   Saiki, Cathy ^a   Schenker, Marc B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural dust; Bioaerosols; Endotoxin; Harvest; Inorganic dust

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

AEROSOL; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CITRUS FRUIT; DUST EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOLIAGE; GRAPE; HARVEST; HEALTH HAZARD; INHALATION; INORGANIC DUST; MANUAL LABOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; CALIFORNIA; DUST; FRUIT; FUNGI; HUMANS; MINERALS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 3242682395     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620490471616     Document Type: Article

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