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JAMA. 2001;286:2397.

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MMWR. 2001;50:961

CDC has developed interim recommendations to assist personnel responsible for occupational health and safety in developing a comprehensive program to reduce potential cutaneous or inhalational exposures to Bacillus anthracis spores among workers in work sites in which mail is handled or processed. Such work sites include post offices, mail distribution/handling centers, bulk mail centers, air mail facilities, priority mail processing centers, public and private mail rooms, and other settings in which workers are responsible for handling and processing mail. The recommendations are based on the limited information available on methods to avoid infection and on the effectiveness of various prevention strategies. These recommendations will be updated as new information becomes available.

The recommendations are divided into the following hierarchical categories describing measures that should be implemented in distribution/handling centers to prevent potential exposures to B. anthracis spores:

• Engineering controls to prevent or capture aerosolized spores
  
• Administrative controls to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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