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Itching erythema among post office workers caused by a photocopying machine with wet toner
Author(s) -
Jensen Margrethe,
RoldPetersen Jytte
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
contact dermatitis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1600-0536
pISSN - 0105-1873
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0536.1979.tb04911.x
Subject(s) - itching , erythema , office workers , irritation , dermatology , medicine , eye irritation , danish , surgery , contact dermatitis , allergy , immunology , operations management , philosophy , economics , linguistics
For two years the employees in a Danish post office complained of irritation of the eyes and the skin. The symptoms were of varying intensity and disappeared during absence from work. A photocopying machine using wet toner proved to he the cause of the symptoms. It has not been possible to ascribe the symptoms to specific chemicals.