Cancer in glass workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: Due to a potential exposure to several definite or probable carcinogens, the IARC classified manufacturing of art glass, glass containers, and pressed ware as probably carcinogenic to humans in 1993 (Group 2A). Purpose of this study was to update the evidence from recently published scientific reports.

Methods: We searched for peer-reviewed articles published between 1993 and 2018 and combined result in terms of a meta-analysis.

Threshold value estimation for respirable quartz dust exposure and silicosis incidence among workers in the german porcelain industry.

Objectives: To estimate a threshold value for the respirable quartz dust concentration and silicosis incidence (1/1, ILO 1980/2000) in the German porcelain worker cohort.

Methods: Forty incident cases occurred among 17,144 workers. Estimation of the relationship to cumulative respirable quartz dust exposures by using Cox regression with restricted cubic splines (7 knots or less) and fractional polynomials (degrees 5 or less).

Respirable crystalline silica exposure-response evaluation of silicosis morbidity and lung cancer mortality in the German porcelain industry cohort.

Objective: To quantify silicosis and lung cancer risks among porcelain workers occupationally exposed to respirable crystalline silica.

Methods: We reread historical radiographs to identify silicosis and estimated exposure on the basis of detailed work history and about 8000 industrial hygiene measurements. Cox proportional hazards models estimated risks by cumulative and average exposure.

Quantitative crystalline silica exposure assessment for a historical cohort epidemiologic study in the German porcelain industry.

A time-dependent quantitative exposure assessment of silica exposure among nearly 18,000 German porcelain workers was conducted. Results will be used to evaluate exposure-response disease risks. Over 8000 historical industrial hygiene (IH) measurements with original sampling and analysis protocols from 1954-2006 were obtained from the German Berufs- genossenschaft der keramischen-und Glas-Industrie (BGGK) and used to construct a job exposure matrix (JEM).

Mortality in the German porcelain industry 1985-2005: first results of an epidemiological cohort study.

Objectives: To evaluate mortality due to lung cancer, silicosis, renal cancer, renal disease and other causes among German porcelain production workers potentially exposed to crystalline silica.

Methods: Seventeen thousand six hundred forty-four medical surveillance participants (1985-1987) were followed through 2005 for mortality. Cause-specific Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR) and 95% confidence intervals were estimated.

Lung cancer among rock and slag wool production workers.

Background: Previous cohort studies have found an elevated risk of lung cancer among rock and slag wool (RSW) production workers. The aim of the present study was to investigate the risk of lung cancer associated with exposure to RSW while controlling for other occupational exposures and tobacco smoking.

Methods: Since 1971, a total of 196 lung cancer cases occurred among men who worked in seven plants in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Germany, with start of production between 1937 and 1950.