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Mushroom spawn dust

Organic dust released during mushroom spawn-line and compost-handling operations.

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

Mushroom Workers Lunghypersensitivity pneumonitisrespiratory disease riskorganic-dust exposure

Evidence

A NIOSH mushroom-farm HHE found that workers throughout the farm were exposed to organic dust constituents capable of causing Mushroom Workers Lung, and reported that ventilation practices in the spawn area likely disseminated spawn dust and compost to other farm areas.

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Industrial hygiene data indicated that farm workers from every operation were exposed to organic dust constituents capable of causing MWL (a form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis). Additionally ventilation practices used in the spawn area ... likely contributed to the dissemination of spawn dusts/composts to other farm areas.

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