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Toxicity Testing of Mineral Dusts. Past. Present. Future

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Our industrial world is responsible for the emission of a great amount of respirable mineral dusts, either natural or artificially produced. This dust emission has become increasingly an important health problem, particularly in places of work where specific dusts were found to be responsible for severe lung diseases: silicosis, coal miner’s pneumoconiosis, berylliosis, hard metal lung fibrosis and asbestos-related diseases. Asbestos and other fibrous dusts are presently a major concern because of their carcinogenic potential [1,2].

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  1. Hygiene-Institut, Universität Gießen, Friedrichstraße 16, D-6300, Gießen, Germany

    Ernst G. Beck

  2. Unité INSERM, CHU Henri Mondor, 51, Avenue du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny, F-94010, Creteil Cedex, France

    Jean Bignon

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Bignon, J. (1985). Toxicity Testing of Mineral Dusts. Past. Present. Future. In: Beck, E.G., Bignon, J. (eds) In Vitro Effects of Mineral Dusts. NATO ASI Series, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70630-1_1

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