[Occupational health in water-soluble vitamin production plants]

The article presents an hygienic assessment of synthetic water-soluble vitamin production shops, reveals the technological process' specificity with regard to its multi-stageness, discreetness, usage of non-hermetic equipment, manual labour prevalence, discharge of hazardous ingredients of different physical and biological characteristics in the working zone air. Outpatient examinations of the workers engaged in the production revealed changes in the upper respiratory organs and the skin. Health-related improvement of the working conditions lies in the elaboration of non-stop technological processes, introduction of hermetic automatic equipment, socio-medical problem solution. It is proposed to standardize the vitamins produced with taking into account their biological properties.