Hair straightening with health risks

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• Personal Author:
  Pechter E
• Description:
  Hair stylists who use keratin hair-smoothing treatments on their client's hair are at risk for exposure to formaldehyde, a known asthmagen and carcinogen. This Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin provides a summary of recent FDA and OSHA actions warning stylists and consumers about the health hazards associated with straightening hair treatments. Despite claims of being "formaldehyde free" many products have been documented to release formaldehyde to the salon environment. To date no cases of work-related asthma (WRA) associated with hair straightening have been reported in Massachusetts. However, nearly 20 confirmed WRA cases reported exposures to formaldehyde in a variety of industries, including healthcare, lumber mills, paper-making, plastics and jewelry box manufacture. If your patients are employed in salons, notify them about the risk of formaldehyde. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Asthma Asthma, Occupational Carcinogens Formaldehyde Hazardous Substances Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Bronchial-asthma Formaldehydes Hairdressers Health-hazards Indoor-air-pollution Occupational-exposure Occupational-health Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders Surveillance-programs Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health Workers

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• Publisher:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042624
• Citation:
  SENSOR Occup Lung Dis Bull Winter 2011-2012; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 250 Washington Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
• CAS Registry Number:
  Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts State Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  SENSOR Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:80e5c4835af16d26a270b34c54c0af0026882c95deb4accc5197b8ba0e6e2f04e14433a867b0422a00236f49bbc99d57042cd7a636829089e5bcca220c80e3e1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194790/cdc_194790_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 88.20 KB ]