NIOSH lists green coffee beans/dust and plant proteins including coffee beans/dust among farming and food-production exposures associated with work-related asthma.
Source: CDC/NIOSH: Work-related Asthma Exposures ↗Dust entry
Green coffee bean dust
Dust from handling or processing green coffee beans, identified by NIOSH as an occupational exposure associated with work-related asthma.
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
work-related asthma risk
Evidence
Controls
- reduce airborne dust
- enclosure or local exhaust ventilation
- exposure assessment
- appropriate respiratory protection