Cadmium Surveillance in a State Health Department. E. Senn , D. Schill, D. Singh, M. Stanbury, New Jersey State Department of Health, Trenton, NJ Cadmium exposure can produce health effects ranging from pulmonary edema to chronic kidney disease and possibly lung cancer.
New Jersey is one of six states requiring clinical laboratory reporting of elevated cadmium levels.
The 53 largest users were then interviewed by telephone concerning their industrial hygiene practices. Exposures were found to be under the OSHA PEL except in six workplaces. Twenty-nine employers were not performing cadmium biological monitoring of workers, nor were they required to, either because of exemptions in the OSHA standard or the stay on the standard for dry color formulators. Sixteen employers discontinued using cadmium during follow-up. A Medical Evaluation of Workers at a Sodium Azide Production Plant.