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Workers under risk are farmers, gardeners, bakers, pastry cooks, food handlers, cooks, and food processing industry workers.

Skin symptoms in occupational food handling normally appear on the hands but may also develop on the face by direct skin contact or aerogen exposure.

Clinical manifestations appear as irritant/allergic contact dermatitis, phototoxic/photoallergic contact dermatitis, contact urticaria (immunologic/non-immunologic), and protein contact dermatitis.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University Allergy Center, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Andrea Bauer

  2. Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Wolfgang Uter

  3. Department of Dermatology, Bethesda Hospital, Freudenberg, Germany

    Christiane Szliska

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    Swen Malte John

  2. National Allergy Research Centre, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Herlev-Gentofte University Hospital, Hellerup, Hellerup, Denmark

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Bauer, A., Uter, W., Szliska, C. (2020). Vegetables and Fruit. In: John, S., Johansen, J., Rustemeyer, T., Elsner, P., Maibach, H. (eds) Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68617-2_71

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