Case study 4: inorganic arsenic - ambient level approach to the control of occupational cancerogenic exposures.

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• Personal Author:
  Blejer, Hector P. ; Wagner W
• Description:
  From 1948 to 1975, nine out of eleven epidemiological studies show significant excess mortality from respiratory cancer among diverse occupations exposed to various inorganic arsenicals and demonstrate that such exposure is carcinogenic in three different tissues. Two of the studies show concomitant significant excess mortality from lymphatic cancer and one from skin cancer. Two studies reveal a dose response relationship between arsenical exposure and lung cancer. Data do not reveal a definite no effect exposure level and, because of the environmental ubiquity of arsenic, (7440382) it is concluded that the arsenic body burden of workers should not be occupationally increased above that produced by the natural ambient level. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Arsenic Carcinogens Epidemiology Inorganic Chemicals Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Toxicology

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Arsenic-compounds Carcinogenicity Exposure-limits Heavy-metals NIOSH-Author Pulmonary-system-disorders
• ISBN:
  9780890720509
• ISSN:
  0077-8923
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  179-186
• Volume:
  271
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00056706
• Citation:
  Ann NY Acad Sci 1976 May; 271(1):179-186
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• NORA Priority Area:
  Pulmonary System Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b06645c1e57fd52644b823372e6b693b2d33f105e1dc1033e4bf60aa057be86d34c84be2b56f124f217ba4d83314e4be90d84d40b607e98e6df982362d3af6c8
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/184105/cdc_184105_DS1.pdf
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