Occupational lung disease risk and exposure to butter-flavoring chemicals after implementation of controls at a microwave popcorn plant

Public Health Reports

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 480-494

  Kanwal, Richard ^a   Kullman, Greg ^a   Fedan, Kathleen B ^a   Kreiss, Kathleen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; FLAVORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BUTTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPIROMETRY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIACETYL; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; UNITED STATES; VENTILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051559408     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491112600405     Document Type: Article

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