Pulmonary function and symptoms in herbal tea workers.
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Biomedical subjects
T D Thedell
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A brief report of gram-negative bacterial endotoxin levels in airborne and settled dusts in animal confinement buildings.
Gram-negative bacterial endotoxins, implicated in adverse worker health responses, were found in settled and airborne dust samples obtained from poultry and swine confinement units. Results of the Limulus amebocyte lysate gel test found endotoxin levels in dust samples ranged from 4.5 to 47.7 micrograms of FDA Klebsiella endotoxin equivalents/gm. Differences in endotoxin levels between dust samples may have been due to variables in time, geographic locations, confined animals, confinement buildings and equipment, and methods of sample collection. Animal confinement workers are potentially exposed to large amounts of gram-negative bacterial endotoxins; however, the respiratory health effects of such exposures to animal confinement workers have yet to be determined.
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Potential health hazards to agricultural workers in swine confinement buildings.
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Aflatoxin in respirable corn dust particles.
Samples of airborne grain dust representing a variety of grains were examined for the presence of aflatoxins. Although aflatoxins could not be detected in most of the samples, one corn sample contained 130 ppb aflatoxin B1. When the components of this sample were separated according to aerodynamic diameter and analyzed for aflatoxins, it was found that particles with diameters 7-11 micrometers and less than 7 micrometers had much higher levels of aflatoxins than the sample as a whole. These findings suggest that measurements of aflatoxin in whole corn might underestimate aflatoxin levels in corn dust aerosols.
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