NIOSH testimony on cotton dust by R. A. Lemen, September 21, 1983.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Testimony was presented to support the need for a cotton dust standard to cover the waste utilization industry and cottonseed oil mills. The following steps were presented to protect against diseases caused by exposure to cotton dust. Worker exposure to cotton dust was to be reduced to the lowest level feasible. In order to ensure that workers were not developing disease, medical monitoring was to be undertaken and workers who were particularly susceptible to cotton dust diseases were to be removed from contact with the dust. Smoking was to be discouraged. A series of cross sectional respiratory morbidity studies was conducted to determine the existence of byssinosis and other pulmonary disease among individuals involved with nontextile industrial exposure to cotton dust. Vertical elutriators were used to provide correlation of dust concentrations in the work environment and the rest of the results of the medical survey tests. Workers in the waste utilization industry had a higher prevalence of bronchitis and results in pulmonary function tests which indicated lung damage. In cottonseed oil mill workers, an increased number of adverse respiratory effects were noted with decreased pulmonary function test results. While there were no data regarding dose response relationships for these industries, NIOSH recommended the institution of a sound prevention strategy. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Dust Gossypium Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Testimony; Lemen-R-A; Cotton-industry; Cotton-mill-workers; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Dust-inhalation; Cotton-dust;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00170022
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87222634
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1983 Sep; :1-9
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 9 pages
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242248/cdc_242248_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]