Primary Prevention of Occupational Asthma: Identifying and Controlling Exposures to Asthma-Causing Agents.

The article reports on the study on the primary prevention of occupational asthma through identifying and controlling exposures to asthma-causing agent. The doctors tested 39 substances distinguished as causing allergic occupational asthma in the U. S. and equated them with the occupational asthmagens in the Great Britain and Germany. As a result, the execution of an evidence-based identification and regulatory process for occupational asthmagens will help to guarantee primary prevention of occupational asthma in the U.S. These include the establishing identification criteria, providing a list of occupational asthmagens, collecting use, exposure and health effects information, requiring medical surveillance and medical removal protection and inducing development of safer alternatives.