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The results of the present epidemiological study among 141 workers (mean age: 34 years) from a Mn salts and oxides producing plant in Belgium suggest that preclinical perturbations (lung function, CNS, biological parameters) may occur in subjects exposed to airborne Mn levels (7 years on the average) usually lower (total dust, geometric mean about 1 mg/m3, 95th percentile 3.3 mg/m3) than the levels actually (5 mg/m3) tolerated.
The fertility of male workers exposed to mercury vapor or to manganese dust was assessed with the use of the questionnaire developed by Levine et al [1980]. In the mercury group (concentration of mercury in urine ranging from 5.1 to 272.1 micrograms/g creatinine), no statistically significant difference was found between the observed number of children and that expected on the basis of the reproductive experience of a well-matched control group. On the contrary, by comparison with their corresponding controls, the manganese-exposed workers exhibited a statistically significant deficit in the number of children during their period of exposure to the metal. The airborne concentration of manganese dusts at the different workplaces ranged from 0.07 to 8.61 mg/m3 with a geometric mean of 0.94 mg/m3.
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