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Breading dust

Airborne flour and cereal particulate generated while coating poultry or other foods with breading ingredients.

Airborne form

dust

The form describes what is suspended in air at the point of exposure. A material can produce more than one form, such as dust during handling and fume during heating.

Health effects

occupational asthmabaker's asthmabronchitisupper respiratory ailmentsnasal symptomsallergic sensitization

Evidence

A CDC/NIOSH evaluation of a poultry breading plant reported that airborne breading dust is associated with risks of asthma, bronchitis, and upper-respiratory ailments; higher-exposure areas had a median flour-dust concentration of 8.21 mg/m3, and workers were tested for sensitization to flour and other ingredients.

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The Health Hazard Evaluation Program received a request from the United Food and Commercial Workers union. Union officials were concerned that employees at a poultry breading plant in Georgia were experiencing asthma, bronchitis, and nasal symptoms from exposure to breading dust, which consists of flour, spices, and other ingredients.

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