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Leather dust

Dust generated during leather processing and manufacture.

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 respiratory diseasenasal cancer hazard classification

Carcinogenicity

Carcinogenic to humans — leather dust. Classification system: IARC, group 1.

A classification applies only to the agent and exposure described by the cited source; it is not a personal risk estimate.

Evidence

Parsed source dossier

These excerpts were generated from downloaded authoritative PDFs using the project ingestion pipeline. They are source metadata, not new medical interpretation.

mono100C.pdf

Design by Au-delà des mots 100 C arsenic, metals, fibres, and dusts Volume 100 of the IARC Monographs, A Review of Human Carcinogens, covers all agents previously classified by IARC as “carcinogenic to humans (Group 1)” and was developed by six separate Working Groups: Pharmaceuticals; Biological agents; Arsenic, Metals, Fibres, arsenic, metals, fibres, and Dusts; Radiation; Personal Habits and Indoor Combustions; Chemical Agents and Related Occupations. This Volume 100C covers Arsenic, Metals,

25114 extracted text lines · matched: asbestos, erionite, leather dust, silica, dust, wood dust, talc, fibre, fiber

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