Respiratory Manifestations and Skin Reactivity in the Detergent Industry

Qt, Pham; Mire, B

doi:10.1097/00043764-197801000-00008

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“…Chemical cleaning detergents and enzymes have been recognized as mild skin or mucosal irritants. 4 It is likely that an inhaled dust of these agents could irritate the respiratory mucosa, resulting in symptoms noted by the participants.…”

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Respiratory Illness in Conference Participants Following Exposure to Rug Shampoo

et al. 1983

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Persons participating in a conference in a major city motel experienced transient mild respiratory illness associated with their presence in the motel conference rooms. The illness was characterized by coughing, sneezing, sore throat, headache, eye irritation, and other symptoms of exposure to a respiratory irritant. Investigation incriminated a chemical shampoo used to clean the conference room rugs approximately one week earlier. Repeated cleaning of the rugs to remove excess cleaning compound eliminated the problem. Excessive application of the shampoo, coupled with a poorly ventilated environment, apparently produced a chemical concentration sufficient to cause clinical illness.

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Respiratory Illness in Conference Participants Following Exposure to Rug Shampoo

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Respiratory irritation due to carpet shampoo: Two outbreaks

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Gonzalez²,

Conright

et al. 1982

Environment International

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Cleaning and asthma: A systematic review and approach for effective safety assessment

Vincent

Parker

Maier

2017

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

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Research indicates a correlative relationship between asthma and use of consumer cleaning products. We conduct a systematic review of epidemiological literature on persons who use or are exposed to cleaning products, both in occupational and domestic settings, and risk of asthma or asthma-like symptoms to improve understanding of the causal relationship between exposure and asthma. A scoring method for assessing study reliability is presented. Although research indicates an association between asthma and the use of cleaning products, no study robustly investigates exposure to cleaning products or ingredients along with asthma risk. This limits determination of causal relationships between asthma and specific products or ingredients in chemical safety assessment. These limitations, and a lack of robust animal models for toxicological assessment of asthma, create the need for a weight-of-evidence (WoE) approach to examine an ingredient or product's asthmatic potential. This proposed WoE method organizes diverse lines of data (i.e., asthma, sensitization, and irritation information) through a systematic, hierarchical framework that provides qualitatively categorized conclusions using hazard bands to predict a specific product or ingredient's potential for asthma induction. This work provides a method for prioritizing chemicals as a first step for quantitative and scenario-specific safety assessments based on their potential for inducing asthmatic effects. Acetic acid is used as a case study to test this framework.

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Respiratory Manifestations and Skin Reactivity in the Detergent Industry

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Respiratory Illness in Conference Participants Following Exposure to Rug Shampoo

Respiratory Illness in Conference Participants Following Exposure to Rug Shampoo

Respiratory irritation due to carpet shampoo: Two outbreaks

Cleaning and asthma: A systematic review and approach for effective safety assessment

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