期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2008
卷号：15
期号：01
页码：79-79
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Studies of the level of exposure to dust among farmers on private farms cov-
ered the measurements of dustiness while they performed work activities from the aspect
of farmer!ˉs exposure to individual fractions of the dust inhaled and potentially deposited
in individual sections of the airways. The measurements were carried out in the respira-
tory zone while performing activities contributing to working processes in mixed agricul-
tural production on private farms in an annual work cycle. The article presents the results
of studies of the concentrations of inhalable, extrathoracic, thoracic, thoraco-bronchial
and alveolic fractions, which allowed the assessment of the percentage distribution of
dust deposited in individual sections of the airways, and enabled the estimation of an
annual farmers!ˉ exposure to individual dust fractions while performing spec? c work ac-
tivities on farms. The results of the assessment of farmers!ˉ annual exposure to individual
fractions of dust indicated that the activities for which the highest values of mean an-
nual weighted concentrations were noted, with respect to all fractions, were: sorting and
packing of potatoes, harvesting cereals with a combine harvester, grain crushing, potato
digging, and tending stock in cattle and swine breeding. The results obtained will allow
the expansion of knowledge concerning the effect of agricultural dust on the human body,
and enable the determination of the effect of dust deposited in individual sections of the
respiratory system on the state of health of farmers. In future, this will also allow the
development of the criteria of hygienic evaluation for dust penetrating into the region of
the chest.
关键词：agricultural dust, farmers!ˉ exposure to dust, level of farmers!ˉ exposur
to dust, fraction analyses.
