PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gardiner, J S
AU  - Walker, S A
AU  - Maclean, A J
TI  - A retrospective mortality study of substituted anthraquinone dyestuffs workers
AID  - 10.1136/oem.39.4.355
DP  - 1982 Nov 01
TA  - British Journal of Industrial Medicine
PG  - 355--360
VI  - 39
IP  - 4
4099  - http://oem.bmj.com/content/39/4/355.short
4100  - http://oem.bmj.com/content/39/4/355.full
SO  - Br J Ind Med1982 Nov 01; 39
AB  - ABSTRACT Because short-term bacterial tests have previously shown that about one-third of substituted anthraquinones tested are capable of causing reverse mutation, and two-year feeding studies of three such dyestuffs in rats have shown an excess of hepatocellular carcinomas, a retrospective cohort mortality study was carried out on a population of 1975 male workers employed in a dyestuffs manufacturing plant in Scotland. The population was identified as having worked for more than six months within the factory during the decade 1 January 1956-31 December 1965, and their mortality experience was followed up to 30 June 1980. Age-standardised mortality rates did not show any excess in total or cancer-related mortality.