Cotton Dust. Controlling an Occupational Health Hazard

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Content: A historical perspective on cotton dust in the United States textile industry / John G. Tritsch -- Engineering controls and measurements : technology for pre-textile cotton cleaning / William F. Lalor -- Dust in cotton gins : an overview / A.C. Griffin, Jr. and E.P. Columbus -- Washing methods for cotton : effects on fiber, processing qualities, and dust generation / Henry H. Perkins, Jr. and Joseph B. Cocke -- Measurement of dust-release potential of cotton / Roy V. Baker -- Cotton trash and dust contents and airborne dust concentration : feasibility of predicting by nondestructive light reflectance / Joseph G. Montalvo, Jr., Marie-Alice Rousselle, Albert Baril, Jr., and Terry A. Watkins -- A standardized method for vertical elutriator cotton dust sampling / Ann L. Walker and Ellis E. Pardue -- Procedures for the determination of humidifier contributions to respirable dust levels in the workplace / F.M. Shofner -- Real time measurement of particle size distribution of airborne cotton dust by light scattering / S.P. Hersh, S.K. Batra, and W.-W. Lee -- Mechanisms in byssinosis : a review / Carol E. O'Neil, Brian T. Butcher, and John E. Salvaggio -- Etiologic agents and pathogenic mechanisms in the acute byssinotic reaction / Sterling K. Ainsworth and Patricia A. Pilia -- Cotton bract and acute airway constriction in humans / Marion G. Buck -- Cotton dust exposure and chronic respiratory impairment : an epidemiological controversy / Mario C. Battigelli -- Some possible relations of fungi in cotton fiber to byssinosis / Paul B. Marsh and Marion E. Simpson -- The relation of microorganisms and microbial products to cotton / Janet J. Fischer -- Botanical trash and gram-negative bacterial contents of materials utilized by the cotton industry / P. Morey and R. Rylander -- Analysis of antigens in cotton dust by immunological methods / Antonio A. Sekul and Robert L. Ory -- Secondary metabolites of gossypium : a biogenetic analysis / J.P. McCormick -- Histamine in cotton plant and dust determined by high performance liquid chromatography / J.H. Wall, L.L. Muller, and R.J. Berni -- Analyses of the inorganic content of cotton dust : a review / R.E. Fornes, S.P. Hersh, P.A. Tucker, and R.D. Gilbert.