Environmental exposure and health effects from concentrated animal feeding operations

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 309-311

  Mitloehner, Frank M ^a   Schenker, Marc B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AMBIENT AIR; ANIMAL FOOD; ASTHMA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MANURE; NONHUMAN; NOSE ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODORS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 34247179695     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000260490.46197.e0     Document Type: Review

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