What is the best strategy to reduce the burden of occupational asthma and allergy in bakers?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 176-182

  Meijster, Tim ^a,b   Warren, Nick ^c   Heederik, Dick ^b   Tielemans, Erik ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HEALTH AND SAFETY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST EXPOSURE; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING;

ALPHA-AMYLASES; ASTHMA; DUST; FLOUR; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY, IMMEDIATE; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 79951667310     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.053611     Document Type: Article

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