Food Batchmakers

Description

Set up and operate equipment that mixes, blends, or cooks ingredients used in the manufacturing of food products. Include candy makers and cheese makers. [SOC] A case of occupational asthma was caused by pectin (Christmas candy maker's asthma. [Malo]

Category

Food Processing

SOC Code

51-3092

Job Tasks

High risk job tasks associated with this job:

• Add sulfites to food (potatoes, lobster, wine, apricots)
• Generate bioaerosols derived from milk, eggs, or animal serum
• Generate bioaerosols of biological enzymes
• Generate bioaerosols of Chinese red rice (food colorant derived from fungi)
• Generate flour dust
• Generate plant bioaerosols processing or packing food products
• Handle agents that cause allergic contact dermatitis or contact urticaria
• Handle limes, celery, parsnips, or figs
• Inhale aspergillus in bakery, beet sugar refinery, or biotechnology plant
• Prepare fruit salad using a solution of enzymes (pectinase and glucanase)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols containing mold (asthmogenic)
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of cheese containing Penicillum species
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of moldy barley
• Repeatedly inhale bioaerosols of soy sauce fermentation starter
• Work in microwave popcorn plant that uses diacetyl for flavoring