Occupational safety

Breathing easier in Shanghai
In Shanghai, the world’s largest cotton textile producer, workers are breathing easier, thanks to a landmark Harvard School of Public Health-led study. The research has helped tighten air-quality standards in factories across China and raised worker-safety concerns in industries from grain processing and animal confinement to particle-board manufacturing and biotechnology—all of which contaminate the air with vegetable- or animal-derived dusts.

Risk analysis
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