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-----I live in a warehouse with a zinc plating co.
I live in a warehouse with a zinc plating company and was wondering if the fumes can be a hazard to my health.
I seem to be getting a sore throat a lot lately and was wondering if it could be coming from the fumes a couple of doors away.
carpenter - Delta, British Columbia
2006
Anything is possible, Mike, including the idea that fumes from that shop are giving you a sore throat. Plating shops use not only zinc plating solutions but acids and alkalis that fume. The fumes should be properly ventilated and scrubbed, and you should barely be able to detect any order from the place.
On the other hand, people work right there all day every day without being sickly. It is difficult to guess at your exposure situation, but perhaps your local health department has exposure monitoring equipment that could rule this in or out.
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