A prospective evaluation of air quality and workers' health in broiler and layer operations

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 102-107

  Senthilselvan, Ambikaipakan ^a   Beach, Jeremy ^a   Feddes, John ^a   Cherry, Nicola ^a   Wenger, Irene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Wenger and Ouellette Solutions   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ENDOTOXIN;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BROILER; DUST EXPOSURE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LIFE CYCLE; LUNG DISEASE; POULTRY FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AGE FACTORS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AMMONIA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POULTRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 78751642779     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2008.045021     Document Type: Article

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