Editorial: Investigating Exposures and Respiratory Health in Coffee Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Cox-Ganser, Jean M. ; Cummings, Kristin J. ; Virji, M. Abbas
• Description:
  Workers in the coffee industry face a variety of inhalational hazards. These range from predominantly organic dust, endotoxin, and green and castor bean allergen exposures in the primary processing factories to dusts, gases, and vapors including a-diketones in coffee production facilities. Previously documented respiratory health effects include symptoms such as wheeze, cough, and dyspnea, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, reduced spirometric parameters, and chronic lung diseases including asthma and obliterative bronchiolitis (OB). Some of these studies are decades old, while some are notable for small size and limited exposure assessments. In this special issue of Frontiers in Public Health on "Investigating exposures and respiratory health in coffee workers", a series of articles explores in detail the exposures, emissions, engineering controls, and health consequences across the contemporary coffee industry by describing studies of primary processing in 16 factories in two African countries and coffee production in 17 facilities in the United States. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coffee Dust Engineering Lung Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  A-diketones Author Keywords: Coffee Workers Coffee Workers Dust Dust Exposure Engineering Controls Engineering Controls Intervention Health Effects Lung Disease Respiratory Diseases Respiratory Health

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• ISSN:
  2296-2565
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  RHD - Respiratory Health Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066124
• Citation:
  Front Public Health 2022 Sep; 10:1026430
• Contact Point Address:
  Mohammed Abbas Virji, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV, United States
• Email:
  mvirji@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Frontiers in Public Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/212636/cdc_212636_DS1.pdf
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