Pottery workers

Nested case-control (pottery workers) M (43, 6353) F (15,1972) M + F (58, 8325) No association with duration, cumulative exposure , or mean silica concentration Turner39... 

Neukirch F, CooremanJ, KorobaeffM, et al Silica exposure and chronic airflow limitation in pottery workers. Arch Environ Health 49 459M64, 1994... 

Silicon toxicity is virtually limited to occupational exposure to silicon compounds e.g. miners, sandblasters, bricklayers, pottery workers in which inhalation of the compounds has been associated with the diseases of the lung. The later being evidenced by nodule formation and acute silicosis, mixed dust fibrosis and diatomite pneumoconiosis. 

The elevated incidence of lung cancer in pottery workers occurred several decades ago by exposure to air levels that now cannot be allowed to occur, and the exposures were to a multitude of industrial dusts. 

Dosemeci (USA) 1993 Quantitative estimation of exposure to silica dust in mine and pottery workers in China using historical exposure data and current exposure profiles Silica mg/m ... 

Falchi M, Paoletti L, Mariotta S, Giosue S, Guidi L, Biondo L, Scavalli P, Bisetti A (1996b) Non-fibrous inorganic particles in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of pottery workers. Occup Environ Med 53 762-766... 

Cuello was excavated by Hammond and co-workers between 1975 and 1993. It is the earliest known Preclassic Maya site, with a Preclassic occupation from ca. 1200 BC to AD 300 as well as later Classic period (AD 300-900) remains the earliest pottery-using phase (Swasey, 1200-900 BC) has not yet been found at other Preclassic sites, but the Bladen (900-600 BC) and subsequent phases match occupations elsewhere in date and material culture. The Cuello excavations have been extensively described in the report edited by Hammond (1991). Of particular relevance here are the chapters on the ecology and subsistence economy (Ch. 4) by Miksicek and by Wing and Scudder, and on the human burials (Ch. 7), by Frank and Julie Saul. More recent publications have focused on the subsistence economy (Crane and Carr 1994) and on the human skeletal remains (Saul and Saul 1997). 

Turner, S. and Cherry, N., Rheumatoid arthritis in workers exposed to silica in the pottery industry, Occup. Environ. Med., 57, 443, 2000. 

Two groups of workers have used MES to study ancient pottery. In both cases, samples were taken, and transmission spectra were ob-... 

The first comprehensive study of fluoride adsorption onto minerals and soils was published in 1967 [57], Since that time, several workers have investigated the adsorption of fluoride on various substrates. These studies include the use of Ando soils of Kenya [58], Illinois soils of USA [59], Alberta soil Luther [60], il-lite-goethite soils in China [2] clay pottery [61,62], fired clay [63], fired clay chips in Ethiopia [12], kaolinite [64], bentonite and kaolinite [65,66] and fly ash [17],... 

In earher times the unfortunate workers involved with the mining and especially the smelting of lead were particularly vulnerable. Once the lead was being used, for example as glazes for pottery and paint, in the construction of lead pipes for water, and in lead cooking pots, large-scale poisoning was possible. 

Inhalation, dermal, perhaps some oral, and publications of uptake application to the genital area (uptake via the vagina). Potential occupational exposures include cosmetic workers, paint makers, paper makers, pottery makers, rubber cable coaters, rubber tire makers, talc millers, talc miners, and talc powder makers. Consumer exposures involve various talc-containing products. 

Pottery/chinaware/porcelain makers Repairers of direct current meters Scientific instrument makers Scientific laboratory workers Tannery workers Tattoo artists and users Taxidermists... 

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