Grain Dust and Health. III. Environmental Factors
Authors: DAVID J. COTTON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1978)

Symposium1 September 1978Grain Dust and Health. III. Environmental FactorsDAVID J. COTTON, M.D., F.R.C.P., JAMES A. DOSMAN, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C);DAVID J. COTTON, M.D., F.R.C.P., JAMES A. DOSMAN, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C);Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-89-3-420 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptPrevious investigations suggest that a number of respiratory disorders may result from exposure to grain dust (1-2). However, few if any attempts have been made to correlate either quantitative or qualitative measurements of dust exposure with respiratory disorders (3). In the absence of previous dose-effect relations this workshop attempted to catalogue the potential etiologic agents and assess their relative health importance.Grain dust is a heterogeneous substance that may include particles from numerous cereal grains (wheat, barley, rye, oats, corn) and may contain a large number of contaminants including silica, fungi and their metabolites (anatoxin), bacterial endotoxins, insects, mites, mammalian...References1. COTTON D and DOSMAN J: Grain, Dust, and Health. I. Host factors. Ann Intern Med 88:840-841, 1978 LinkGoogle Scholar2. DOSMAN J and COTTON D: Grain, Dust, and Health. II. Early diagnosis in occupational pulmonary disease. Ann Intern Med 89:134-135, 1978 LinkGoogle Scholar3. CAPLAN K: The environment: Methods of assessment and relationship to the evaluation of disease. Industrial Health Engineering Associates Inc., Hopkins, Minnesota Google Scholar4. 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CONKEY D: Present state and future trends of the design of grain elevators and dust control systems. Conkey & Associates Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota Google Scholar17. HALTER G: Dust control in grain elevators. C.D. Howe Central Ltd., Thunder Bay, Canada Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: DAVID J. COTTON, M.D., F.R.C.P.; JAMES A. DOSMAN, M.D., F.R.C.P. 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