Exposure of bakery and pastry apprentices to airborne flour dust using PM2.5 and PM10 personal samplers

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mounier Geyssant, Estelle ^a,b   Barthélemy, Jean François ^c   Mouchot, Lory ^a   Paris, Christophe ^a,b   Zmirou Navier, Denis ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAYS ALLERGEN; ALLERGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRWAY INFLAMMATION; ARTICLE; BAKERY AND PASTRY APPRENTICE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FLOUR DUST; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTICULE MATTER 10; PARTICULE MATTER 2.5; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIZATION; STUDENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK SCHEDULE; ADULT; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; ASTHMA; BREAD; COOKING; DUST; EXPOSURE; FLOUR; FOOD INDUSTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHMA; BREAD; COOKERY; DUST; FLOUR; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; UNITED STATES; VENTILATION;

EID: 38349159893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-311     Document Type: Article

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