Curing agents health effects

If a known adverse health effect can reasonably be anticipated under the circumstances of work - and could readily be observed - some form of heahh surveillance is appropriate. This may involve a doctor or trained nurse. It may include the checking of employees skin for dermatitis or asking questions relevant to any asthmatic condition where work is with recognized causative agents (e.g. epoxy resin curing agents). 

Aromatic amine curing agents sensitizers, longterm health effects, absorbed through skin respiratory irritants sensitizers moderate to high toxicity... 

Committee on Nitrite and Alternative Curing Agents in Food (1981). Historical perspective. In The Health Effects of Nitrate, N itrite, and N -N itroso Compounds, Chap. 2. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 

But wait. Let s remember that chemicals have virtually transformed the modern world in extraordinarily beneficial ways. During the past 100 years the chemical industry has offered up, and we have eagerly consumed, thousands of highly useful materials and products. Among these products are many that have had profoundly beneficial effects on human health - antibiotics and other remarkable medicinal agents to prevent and cure diseases, pesticides to protect crops, preservatives to protect the food supply, plastics, fibers, metals and hundreds of other materials that have enhanced the safety and pleasures of modern... 

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