Exploring the South African legacy of asbestos using routinely collected data
Authors: T Vorster, N Kgokong, JI Phillips Source: Occupational Health Southern Africa. Vol 24 No. 5 September/October 2018 Summary: Background: Despite the banning of asbestos in South Africa in 2008, potential exposure to asbestos remains [...]
Introducing a new standardized nanomaterial environmental toxicity screening testing procedure, ISO/TS 20787: Aquatic toxicity assessment of manufactured nanomaterials in saltwater lakes using Artemia sp. nauplii
Authors: SA Johari, K Rasmussen, M Gulumian, M Ghazi-Khansari, N Tetarazako, et al. Source: Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, DOI: 10.1080/15376516.2018.1512695 https://doi.org/10.1080/15376516.2018.1512695 Summary: This paper introduces a new standardized testing procedure for nanomaterial environmental toxicity (International [...]
Environmental exposure to asbestos fibres before and after removing asbestos cement roofs from two townships in Gauteng
Authors: GE Mizan, JI Phillips and T Nthoke Source: Occupational Health Southern Africa. Vol 24 No.5 Sept/October 2018 Summary: Background: Despite the banning of asbestos in 2008, South Africa has a legacy of asbestos-containing materials [...]
Occupational contact urticarial and early-onset work-related asthma in a latex-allergic woodworker exposed to obeche wood
Authors: D Ngajilo, T Singh, E Ratshikhopha, M Jeebhay Source: Current Allergy & Clinical Immunology. December 2018 Vol 31, No4 Summary: Exposure to wood dust has been shown to cause allergic skin and respiratory symptoms [...]
Phirashaw Camay virtual asbestos library to be launched
Authors: A Mzoneli Source: Occupational Health Southern Africa. September/October 2018 Vol 24, No5
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