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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, which has helped tighten air-quality standards in factories across China, has also 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. Now a team of HSPH researchers, and their American and Chinese colleagues, are monitoring the lung health of retirees no longer exposed to the factory environment and probing workers’ DNA for clues to respiratory problems.

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