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Document ID (ISN)29841
CIS number 78-1411
Year 1977
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Manuel J.P.
Title Working conditions and occupational diseases of mushroom growers
Original title Conditions de travail et pathologie professionnelle dans les champignonnières. [in French]
Bibliographic information Université de Bordeaux II, Unités d'Enseignement et de Recherche des Sciences médicales, Bordeaux, France, 1977. 124p. 13 ref.
Abstract MD thesis. General considerations on mushroom growing and picking and on working conditions and methods (workplaces and workposts) are followed by a review of the occupational hazards and harmful agencies, and of the categories of personnel involved (arrangement and allocation of working hours, special requirements of the occupation and contra-indications). The author then examines the hazards of this occupation, dividing them into traumatic and physical hazards, occupational accidents, chemical hazards of gases given off by compost (NH3, H2S, CO2) and of chemicals employed at various stages of mushroom farming (pesticides, rodenticides, etc.), hazards of parasites, microbial and mycotic infection (mushroom grower's lung, mushroom grower's onychopathy). Problems of how to eliminate these hazards and role of the occupational health physician.
Descriptors (primary) mushroom farming; occupational diseases
Descriptors (secondary) nail diseases; France; bacterial diseases; parasitic diseases; pesticides; medical supervision; mycoses; mushroom workers lung; thesis; health hazards; harmful substances
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Agriculture
Mycoses