Table 2
Percentage of bakers with work related symptoms, positive skin prick tests (SPT) or radioallergosorbert test (RAST) to flour or any bakery allergen and the corresponding dust measurements
| Symptoms (%) | Pos SPT or RAST | Dust from personal samples | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Eyes/nose | Chest | Flour | Any | n | GM range (mg/m3) | Reference |
| *Work related symptoms from the eyes or nose and chest. | |||||||
| GM, geometric mean; NR, not reported. | |||||||
| 133 | 0* | NR | NR | 133 | 0.2–1.8 | Hartmann 1986 | |
| 139 | 11* | NR | NR | 139 | 1.0–4.4 | ||
| 42 | 17* | NR | NR | 42 | 3.2–19.8 | ||
| 183 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 28 | 32 | 0.01–3.0 | Musk 1989 |
| 96 | 30 | 17 | 5 | 35 | 47 | 1.7–11.0 | |
| 104 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 205 | < 1 | Cullinan, Nieuwenhuijsen 1994 |
| 90 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 191 | 1–5 | |
| 62 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 30 | 99 | <5 | |
| 117 | 15* | 4 | NR | 151 | 0.5 (mean) | Houba 1998 | |
| 107 | 23* | 8 | NR | 120 | 0.8 (mean) | ||
| 122 | 29* | 14 | NR | 178 | 2.4 (mean) | ||
