IngentaConnect Skin diseases in workers at a perfume factory

Author: Schubert, Hans-jürgen

Source: Contact Dermatitis, Volume 55, Number 2, August 2006 , pp. 81-83(3)

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to find out the causes of skin diseases in one-third of the staff of a perfume factory, in which 10 different perfume sprays were being manufactured. Site inspection, dermatological examination and patch testing of all 26 persons at risk with 4 perfume oils and 30 ingredients of them. The results showed 6 bottlers were found suffering from allergic contact dermatitis, 2 from irritant contact dermatitis, 12 workers showed different strong reactions to various fragrances. The main causes of allergic contact dermatitis were 2 perfume oils(12 cases) and their ingredients geraniol (12 cases), benzaldehyde(9), cinnamic aldehyde (6), linalool, neroli oil, terpenes of lemon oil and orange oil(4 each). Nobody was tested positive to balsam of Peru. Job changes for office workers, packers or printers to other rooms, where they had no longer contact with fragrances, led to a settling. To conclude, automation and replacement of glass bottles by cartridges from non-fragile materials and using gloves may minimize the risk.

Keywords: allergic contact dermatitis; fragrances; occupational contact dermatitis; perfume

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2006.00881.x

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