Pregnancy outcome industry

Lipscomb JA, Fenster L, Wrensch M, Shusterman D, Swan S (1991) Pregnancy outcomes in women potentially exposed to occupational solvents and women working in the electronics industry. J Occup Med, 33(5) 597-604. 

Hansson E, Jansa S, Wande H, et al. Pregnancy outcomes for women working in laboratories in some of the pharmaceutical industries in Sweden. Scand J Work Environ Health 1980 6 131-4. 

Anderson, A. K, Bignell, W. E. Chakraborty, P. (2011). Negative effect of industrial produced trans fatty acid (elaidic acid) on pregnancy outcome and early postpartum life. Agro Food Industry Hi-Tech, 22(5 , 10-2. 

Coal Tar Products. An excess of breast cancer cases in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, was tentatively associated with coal tar contamination of the water supply (Dean et al. 1988). However, in a subsequent analysis of these data, the Minnesota Department of Health (1985) concluded that this study did not provide adequate evidence to associate breast-cancer with coal tar creosote-contaminated water (for a detailed discussion of these data, see Section 3.2.2.7 Cancer). No adverse effects on sperm characteristics were reported in male workers exposed to coal tar pitch volatiles in an industrial setting (Ward 1988). In addition, no adverse reproductive outcomes were detected in a survey of inhabitants of a housing development built on an abandoned creosote factory site, which was known to be contaminated with creosote (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry 1994). A retrospective study of dermal exposure to coal tar found no increased risk of spontaneous abortion associated with exposure to coal tar during pregnancy, but this was a small study and was unlikely to have sufficient resolution to detect a modest increase in risk (Franssen et al. 1999). 

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