Surprises perilous: Toxic health hazards for employees unloading fumigated shipping containers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3106-3113

  Preisser, Alexandra M ^a   Budnik, Lygia T ^a   Hampel, Eva ^b   Baur, Xaver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b WiDi Kontor   (Germany)

Author keywords

Containers; Ethylene dichloride; Fumigants; Methyl bromide; Neuropsychological late sequelae; Reactive airway dysfunction syndrome

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE DICHLORIDE; FUMIGANTS; METHYL BROMIDE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTIVE AIRWAY DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLENE; FUMIGATION; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PACKAGING MATERIALS; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; WOODEN CONTAINERS;

UNLOADING;

1,2 DICHLOROETHANE; DICHLOROMETHANE; METHYL BROMIDE; PHOSPHINE;

ETHYLENE; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; FUMIGANT; FUMIGATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; METHYL BROMIDE; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHIPPING; TOXICITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FUMIGATION; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN IRRITATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ETHYLENE DICHLORIDES; FEMALE; FUMIGATION; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; MALE; METHYLENE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PHOSPHINES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 79958810246     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.04.053     Document Type: Article

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