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Use of Low-Cost Particle Counters for Cotton Dust Exposure Assessment in Textile Mills in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
OBJECTIVE: There is a lack of consensus on methods for cotton dust measurement in the textile industry, and techniques vary between countries—relying mostly on cumbersome, traditional approaches. We undertook comparisons of standard, gravimetric methods with low-cost optical particle counters for pe...
Autores principales: | Nafees, Asaad Ahmed, Iqbal, Abdul Rehman, Cullinan, Paul, De Matteis, Sara, Burney, Peter, Semple, Sean |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9030129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34791042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxab102 |
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