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Persulfate hair-bleach dust

Persulfate salt powder used with peroxide in hair-bleaching products and handled in hairdressing or chemical work.

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 asthma concernrespiratory sensitizationrhinitis and conjunctivitis concerncontact urticaria concern

Evidence

The UK HSE review reports well-conducted studies showing that persulfate salts can induce workplace asthma, including positive bronchial challenges with persulfate powder or aerosolized solution, and classifies persulfate salts as respiratory sensitisers under its reviewed criteria.

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page 65 · C21: PERSULPHATES — Summary and conclusion · 1
A number of well-conducted studies provide evidence that persulphate salts can induce asthma in the workplace. In several cases specific reactions have been obtained at bronchial challenge under conditions which do not produce a response in normal or previously non-exposed asthmatic subjects. These studies are backed up by case reports of occupational asthma associated with persulphate use.

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