An asthmagen is a substance that can cause asthma in exposed people.
Common asthmagens
Some of the more common asthmagens include:
solder fumes,
welding fumes, hard metal dust/fumes (e.g.
cobalt), metal-working fluids, oil mists,
sawdust (both hard and soft),
isocyanates (e.g., footwear and textiles, printing, cellular plastics, rubber and spraying isocyanate paint in MVR),
formaldehyde,
glutaraldehyde,
anhydrides (
epoxy resins, printing inks, plastic/rubber),
azodicarbonamide (plastics and rubber),
latex,
glues,
dyes, laboratory animals, molds, cleaning materials, flour and grain dusts and other agriculture
.
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