Annals of Occupational Hygiene vol 49 number 4 is now available on-line.
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This issue includes an open-access commentary on metalworking fluids
by Martin Stear.

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Editor in Chief
Annals of Occupational Hygiene

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COMMENTARY
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Metalworking Fluids--Clearing Away the Mist?
MARTIN STEAR
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 279-281.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/49/4/279?etoc

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES
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Mist Generation from Metalworking Fluids Formulated Using Vegetable Oils
PETER C. RAYNOR, SEUNG WON KIM, and MRINAL BHATTACHARYA
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 283-293.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/283?etoc

Survey of the Biological Effects of Refractory Ceramic Fibres: Overload
and Its Possible Consequences
R. C. BROWN, B. BELLMANN, H. MUHLE, J. M. G. DAVIS, and L. D. MAXIM
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 295-307.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/295?etoc

A Comparison of Fibre Counting Across Three European National Proficiency
Testing Schemes
A. D. JONES, M. C. ARROYO, R. GROSJEAN, B. TYLEE, B. G. MILLER, and P.
BROWN
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 309-324.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/309?etoc

Proposal to Adapt the Workplace Analysis Scheme for Proficiency (WASP)
Programme to Fibre Counting Tests
M. GRZEBYK, E. KAUFFER, and L. FREVILLE
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 325-334.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/325?etoc

Assessment of Exposure to Quartz, Cristobalite and Silicon Carbide Fibres
(Whiskers) in a Silicon Carbide Plant
CHANTAL DION, ANDRE DUFRESNE, MARCEL JACOB, and GUY PERRAULT
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 335-343.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/335?etoc

Pesticide Residues on the External Surfaces of Field Crop Sprayers:
Occupational Exposure
CARMEL T. RAMWELL, PAUL D. JOHNSON, ALISTAIR B. A. BOXALL, and DUNCAN A.
RIMMER
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 345-350.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/345?etoc

Comparison of Quartz Standards for X-ray Diffraction Analysis: HSE A9950
(Sikron F600) and NIST SRM 1878
JIM CHISHOLM
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 351-358.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/4/351?etoc

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Comparison of Crystalline Silica ({alpha}-Quartz) Calibration Standards
NIST-SRM 1878 and NIST-SRM 1878a by Fourier Transform Infrared
Spectrophotometry
DAVE K. VERMA and DON S. SHAW
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 359-361.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/49/4/359?etoc

Asbestos Lung Residue and Asbestosis Risk
ALAN ROGERS
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 363-364.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/49/4/363?etoc

Reply
ROBIN HOWIE
Ann Occup Hyg 2005 49: 364-365.
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/49/4/364?etoc
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