Industrial toxins and the community: introductory comments.

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• Personal Author:
  Heath CW Jr.
• Description:
  Introductory comments on the community health session of symposium were presented. Community health and worker health were considered to form a single spectrum, with the main distinction being differences in dose and mode of exposure. The community health effects of the Kepone (143500) exposure incident in Hopewell, Virginia from March 1974 through July 1975 were used to illustrate the difficulties in public health management related to dose and mode of exposure. A small facility was engaged in production of the insecticide. Workers were extensively exposed to Kepone, and there was widespread environmental contamination outside the facility. In 76 of 133 workers at the facility, neurological symptoms were present; all of the workers showed detectable levels of Kepone. The area around the facility showed Kepone dust pollution, and the James River was polluted via discharges to the city sewage system. Community exposures included contact with airborne Kepone dust and consumption of seafood contaminated via the food chain.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Epidemiology Men Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Airborne-dusts Chlorinated-hydrocarbons Environmental-exposure Environmental-pollution Food-contaminants Industrial-exposures Toxic-materials
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Missouri ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  259-261
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00184909
• Citation:
  Occupational safety and health symposia 1977. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 78-169, 1978 Jun; :259-261
• CAS Registry Number:
  Chlordecone (CAS RN 143-50-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational safety and health symposia 1977
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180191/cdc_180191_DS1.pdf
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