Occupational Asthma and Its Causation in the UK Seafood Processing Industry.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The processing of seafood (fish and shellfish) for human consumption can lead to health consequences, including occupational asthma (OA). Several non-UK studies have reported both respiratory outcomes and airborne levels of major allergens in seafood processing. However, there is a paucity of such evidence in the UK land-based seafood processing sector, which employs some 20 000 workers.

Methods

University of Manchester's Surveillance of Work-related and Occupational Respiratory Disease (SWORD) reporting system has been interrogated over the period 1992-2017 to define the incidence rate of OA cases that can be ascribed to the UK land-based processing sector, and the seafood species implicated. Airborne allergen monitoring data undertaken at Health and Safety Execu

SUBMITTER: Mason HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7543999 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature