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  • Title: Occupational asthma due to colophony in non-industrial environments.
    Author: Mariano A, Paredes I, Nuti R, Innocenti A.
    Journal: Med Lav; 1993; 84(6):459-62. PubMed ID: 8177130.
    Abstract:
    Colophony is largely used in industrial environments, like the electronics and the rubber tyre industries, but it is also present in non-industrial environments as a constituent of glues and paper. For this reason it is one of the commonest skin sensitizers. Many cases of occupational asthma due to colophony have been described, but reports apart from electronic industry are not common. The case is described of a subject employed in administrative work who developed asthma due to colophony from using sealing wax to seal samples of food packages.
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