Determination of the size of airborne flour particles
Sandiford, C. P. ; Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J. ; Tee, R. D. ; Newman Taylor, A. J.
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Published 1994
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Published 1994
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1398-9995
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Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
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Medicine
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Air sampling was done in a UK bakery and a flour mill with an eight-stage cascade impactor to determine the size of airborne flour particles. The concentration of captured material was determined by a competitive inhibition radioimmunoassay. Comparison of the different sites revealed that 8.79% and 52.14% of the particles in the bakery dough-brake and roll-production areas had a diameter 〈inlineGraphic alt="leqslant R: less-than-or-eq, slant" extraInfo="nonStandardEntity" href="urn:x-wiley:01054538:ALL891:les" location="les.gif"/〉6.0 μm, respectively, and 19.7% of the particles in the flour mill packing area were of this size. We conclude that in dusty areas up to 20% of the airborne flour particles are of a diameter likely to allow them to be deposited in the bronchial airways and alveoli.
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