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NIOSH Fact Sheet: NIOSH Evaluates Worker Exposures at a Popcorn Plant in Missouri
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/02-128.html

Description:
In this May 2002 study, the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ... [has worked] with management, employees, State health officials, and others to assess workers' potential risk for a serious lung disease from occupational exposures at a company's popcorn packaging plant in Jasper, Missouri. NIOSH has made interim recommendations to reduce exposures as further study continues."

Publisher:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Preve

Extra Keywords
bronchiolitis obliterans

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Industrial hygiene
Industrial safety
Lungs -- Diseases

LII Database Information:
Record 13312 created by Jennifer English on 04/19/2004
Last modification on 04/21/2004
Published: 04/19/2004  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/13312