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Powdered food-flavoring dust

Dust released while making, handling, or packaging powdered food flavorings and flavoring 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

severe fixed obstructive lung disease concernrespiratory irritationoccupational lung diseaseairway obstruction concern

Evidence

NIOSH warns that breathing certain flavoring chemicals at work may lead to severe lung disease and recommends limiting release of chemical vapors and dust into workplace air.

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Recommendations
Breathing certain flavoring chemicals in the workplace may lead to severe lung disease. Establish and enforce work practices to limit release of chemical vapors and dust into the workplace air.

Current CDC/NIOSH guidance states that workers exposed to flavorings can develop severe lung disease, with flavoring-related disease commonly involving dry cough, wheezing, or exertional shortness of breath; it describes obliterative bronchiolitis as potentially progressive and often persistent after exposure.

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What to know; Symptom severity · 1
Workers exposed to flavorings can develop severe lung disease. Workers affected by flavoring-related disease typically experience dry cough, wheezing, or shortness of breath during physical exertion. Obliterative bronchiolitis symptoms range from mild to severe ... and get progressively worse over weeks or months.

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