THE STUDY OF EFFECT OF FOOD DUST ON PULMONARY FUNCTIONS OF FOOD INDUSTRY WORKERS
Journal Title: International Journal of Basic and Applied Physiology - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: In India, around 20 million workers are involved in food industry. With rapid industrialization of the developing world, food dust induced lung diseases are poised to become a global health problem. Aims & Objective: To evaluate and compare the lung functions in subjects exposed to food dust with unexposed once (control groups) and to find out the correlation between duration of exposure with observed respiratory parameters. Materials and Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted in McCain with the help of SPIROLAB II (MIR). A total of 200 individuals, 100 food industry workers and 100 healthy volunteers were included in this study. Results: The average FEV1/FVC ratio in food industry workers was 79.07 ± 9.73, which was significantly lower (p<.0001) as compared to unexposed subjects 98.04 ± 3.30. When the FEV1/FVC ratio was studied in correlation with duration of exposure, it was observed that the reduction in FEV1/FVC ratio showed a significant (p<0.01) positive correlation with exposure time. Conclusion: In our study an attempt was made to compare pulmonary function between unexposed controls and exposed food industry workers. We must focus on health conditions of the human involving in the manufacturing process and environmental conditions
Authors and Affiliations
Paresh Prajapati, Vijay Goplani, Anup Patel, Saurin J Sanghavi, Hitesh Patel, Jwalit Mehta, Anju Mehta
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