Diesel engine exhaust classified as a human lung carcinogen. How will this affect occupational exposures?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 691-693

  Scheepers, Paul T J ^a   Vermeulen, Roel C H ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUND; ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN; CYTOKINE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POTASSIUM CARBONATE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SODIUM CARBONATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIESEL ENGINE; EDITORIAL; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MINER; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKPLACE;

CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84866524816     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101088     Document Type: Editorial

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