Work area measurements as predictors of personal exposure to endotoxin and cotton dust in the cotton textile industry

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-54

  Mehta, A J ^a   Wang, X R ^a   Eisen, E A ^a   Dai, H L ^b   Astrakianakis, G ^c   Seixas, N ^c   Camp, J ^c   Checkoway, H ^c   Christiani, D C ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Putuo District People's Hospital ^*  (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton dust; Endotoxin; Exposure assessment; Occupational exposure; Shanghai textile workers

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; COTTON; DUST; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TEXTILES; TOXIC MATERIALS; GEODESY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYING; TEXTILE FIBERS; TEXTILE MILLS; WEAVING;

COTTON DUST; ENDOTOXIN; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SHANGHAI TEXTILE WORKERS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ENDOTOXIN;

AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; COTTON DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COTTON FIBER; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY; ENDOTOXIN; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINES; LINEAR ASSOCIATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SHANGHAI TEXTILE WORKERS;

EID: 38349162586     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mem061     Document Type: Article

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