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The electronics industry today is a major worldwide industry with a workforce numbering millions. Fifty-years old this year, this complex scientific industry is constantly subject to changes in working practices occurring as a consequence of evolving scientific knowledge. What has always been a complicated industry is now even more so as technological advances substitute older materials with newer, potentially advantageous ones at various stages in the manufacturing processes. This fact, along with the inherent intricate and convoluted nature of many of the methods involved, means that the numbers of materials used in the industry are large and so, consequently, is the potential for employee exposure to the various chemicals involved. Owing to the vast size of the workforce, one might expect employees of this industry to contribute significant numbers of cutaneous problems to the dermatologist.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Section of Dermatology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, 00250, Helsinki, Finland

    Lasse Kanerva M.D., Ph.D.

  2. Department of Occupational Dermatology, Karolinska Hospital, 117 76, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jan E. Wahlberg M.D., Ph.D.

  3. National Institute for Working Life, 117 76, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jan E. Wahlberg M.D., Ph.D.

  4. Klinik für Hautkrankheiten, Klinikum der FSU Jena, Erfurter Straße 35, 07740, Jena, Germany

    P. Elsner

  5. School of Medicine, University of California, Box 0989, Surge 100, 94143-0989, CA, San Francisco, USA

    Howard I. Maibach M.D.

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Tucker, S.C., English, J.S.C. (2000). The Electronics Industry. In: Kanerva, L., Wahlberg, J.E., Elsner, P., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Handbook of Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07677-4_82

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