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DISCUSSION SECTION

UNANSWERED LETTER

The following letter, sent in September 1996 to the International Labour Office, Case Postale 500, 1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, has received no acknowledgement or reply

Dear Colleagues
We have received no reply to our letter of May 25, enquiring why your bulletin never reports on fluoride as an industrial pollutant or health hazard to workers. Although for many years we have sent you our journal, and received in return your ILO-CIS Bulletin Safety and Health at Work, our published articles and abstracts on occupational fluorosis and industrial fluoride pollution, as well as those on the same subjects from other journals, have not been reported in your Bulletin. However, other industrial pollutants and health hazards are regularly reported on. Please advise why this is your policy.

The following is a list of reports in our journal which have not been noted in your Bulletin.

Original research reports:

Fluoride Vol. 29 No. 3 pp 163-165 1996. Fluoride in urine, hair and nails of phosphate fertilizer workers, by W Czarnowski, K Stolarska, B Brzezinska and J Krechniak, Poland.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 4 pp 203-208 1995. Endemic fluorosis in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. II. Identification of risk factors associated with occupational exposure to fluoride, by Jaqueline Calderón, Isabelle Romieu, Magdalena Grimaldo, Héctor Hernandez and Femando Diaz-Barriga, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Fluoride Vol. 27 No. 4 pp 194-200 1994. A method for estimating individual predisposition to occupational fluorosis, by E V Polzik, V E Zinger, G A Valova, V S Kazantsev and M Y Yakusheva, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 4 257-262 1993. Factors of individual predisposition to occupational fluorosis, by E V Polzik, G A Valova, S V Shcherbakov and M Y Yakusheva, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Abstracts of papers presented at XXth Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, Beijing, China, September 5-9 1994:

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 1 p 40 1995. Serum and urinary fluoride concentration in fluoride-exposed workers of an aluminium smelting factory in China, by K Kono, Y Yoshida, M Watanabe, K Usuda, A Harada, G Sun, G Ding, and Y Hu, Osaka, Japan and Shenyang and Fushun, China.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 1 p 40 1995. Fluoride metabolism and kidney function: health care of fluoride exposed workers, by K Kono, Y Yoshida, M Watanabe, K Usuda, M Shimahara, A Harada, K Doi, Japan.

Abstracts of papers presented at XIXth Conference of the International Society for Fluoride Research, Kyoto, Japan, September 8-11 1992:

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 3 p 223 1993. Research on chronic effects of occupational exposure to organic fluorine, by G Z Zhang, Z Y Zhang, B C Xu, G F Sun and J K Guan, Fuxin and Shenyang, China.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 3 pp 223-224 1993. Effects of organic fluorine exposure on the reproductive function of female workers and the development of their offspring, by Z Y Zhang, G Z Zhang, X J Liu et a/, China.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 3 pp 224-225 1993. Effects of food intake on serum and urinary fluoride concentrations as an indicator of occupational fluoride exposure, by H Nagaie, Y Yoshida, K Kono, M Watanabe, Y Tanioka, Y Orita, T Dote, Y Takahashi, K Umebayashi and A Takasu, Osaka, Japan.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 2 p 140 1993. Effects of fluoride exposure on the health of workers in an aluminium smelter, by G F Sun and Y L Hu, Shenyang and Fushun, China.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 2 p 141 1993. Study of the effect on pulmonary function in workers with chronic exposure to organic fluoride, by G F Sun, G F Yang, Q K Meng, Z Y Zhang and G Z Zhang, Shenyang and Fuxin, China.

Abstracts from other journals:

Fluoride Vol. 29 No. 2 p.103 1996. Historical cohort study of spontaneous abortion among fabrication workers in the semiconductor health study - agent-level analysis, by S H Swan, J J Beaumont, S K Hammond et al, USA. Abstract from American Journal of Industrial Medicine 28 (6) 751-769 1995

Fluoride Vol. 29 No. 2 p.103-104 1996. Hydrofluoric acid-induced skin necrosis, by V Saada, M Patarin, S Sans and P Saiag, France. Abstract from Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie 122 (8) 512-513 1995

Fluoride Vol. 29 No 2 p.104-105 1996. Bronchial responsiveness, eosinophilia, and short term exposure to air pollution by V Søyseth, J Kongerud, P Broen et al, Norway. Abstract from Archives of Disease in Childhood 73 (5) 418-422 1995

Fluoride Vol. 29 No. 2 p 109 1996. Generalized osteopathy with pathological fractures in a patient with longterm exposure to fluorine-containing plastics, by W Rhomberg, F Bohler, A Vith and G Breitfellner, Austria. Abstract from Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift; Journal Suisse de Medecine 125 (48) 2330-2337 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 4 p 218 1995. Endemic fluorosis in San Luis Potosi, Mexico I. Identification of risk factors associated with human exposure to fluoride, by M Grimaldo, V H Borja-Aburtom, A L Ramirez et al, Mexico. Abstract from Environmental Research 68 (1) 25-30 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 4 p 223 1995. Relation of exposure to airway irritants in infancy to prevalence of bronchial hyper-responsiveness in schoolchildren, by V Søyseth, J Kongerud, D Haarr et al, Norway. Abstract from Lancet 345 (8944) 217-220 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 4 p 223 1995. Asthma and respiratory problems - A Review, by T V O'Donnell, Wellington, New Zealand. Abstract from Science of the Total Environment 163 (1-3) 137-145 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 4 p 224 1995. Effect of different exposure compounds on urinary kinetics of aluminium and fluoride in industrially exposed workers, by F Pierre, F Baruthio, F Diebold and P Biette, France. Abstract from Occupational and Environmental Medicine 52 (6) 396-403 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 3 p 149 1995. Sister-chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes of workers at a phosphate fertilizer factory, by Z Q Meng, H Q Meng and X L Cao, China. Abstract from Mutation Research - Environmental Mutagenesis and Related Subjects 334 (2) 243-246 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 3 p 149 1995. Sister-chromatid exchanges after exposure to metal-containing emissions, by K Sivikova and J Dianovsky, Slovakia. Abstract from Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis 327 (1-2) 17-22 1995.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 2 pp 113-114 1995. Dermatoglyphic indices in assessing predisposition to occupational fluorosis, by G A Valova, E V Polzik, V E Zinger and S V Shcherbakov, Russia. Abstract from Tsitologiia i Genetika 28 (3) 56-59 1994.

Fluoride Vol. 28 No. 2 p 114 1995. Relation between exposure to fluoride and bronchial responsiveness in aluminium potroom workers with work-related asthma like symptoms, by V Søyseth, J Kongerud, J Ekstrand and J Boe, Norway. Abstract from Thorax 49 (10) 984-989 1994.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 3 p 229 1993. Prevalence of respiratory disorders among aluminium potroom workers in relation to exposure to fluoride, by V Søyseth and J Kongerud, Norway. Abstract from British Journal of Industrial Medicine 49 125-130 1992.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 2 pp 144-145 1993. Cancer incidence and mortality in workers exposed to fluoride, by P Grandjean, J H Olsen, O M Jensen and K Juel, Denmark. Abstract from Journal of the National Cancer Institute 84 1903-1909 1992.

Fluoride Vol. 26 No. 2 p 146 1993. Serum fluoride as an indicator of occupational hydrofluoric acid exposure, by K Kono, Y Yoshida, M Watanabe et al, Japan. Abstract from Intentional Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health 64 343-346 1992.

Sincerely
John Colquhoun
Editor

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