RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 A retrospective mortality study of substituted anthraquinone dyestuffs workers
JF British Journal of Industrial Medicine
JO Br J Ind Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 355
OP 360
DO 10.1136/oem.39.4.355
VO 39
IS 4
A1 Gardiner, J S
A1 Walker, S A
A1 Maclean, A J
YR 1982
UL http://oem.bmj.com/content/39/4/355.abstract
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.