SAN FRANCISCO - A very well attended roundtable discussion about the consequences of worker exposures to natural rubber lates was a highlight of the 1997 American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) conference. The chairperson, John F. Halsey of IBT Reference Laboratory, wrote up the discussion for the June/July issue of The Synergist.Several of the panelists noted that a dramatic increase in more serious types of reactions to latex products in recent years accompanied OSHA's bloodborne pathogens st
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