DGUV Information 213-705e - Recommendations of the German Social Accident Insurance Institutions for a chemical safety assessment ("EGU") in accordance with the Hazardous Substances Ordinance Flour dust in bakeries

The results of the personal sampling (mean shift values) are shown in Table 1:

Table 1: Results of measurements of flour dust in bakeries (inhalable fraction, mean shift values)

The measurement results show that in all bakeries using the latest methods of good working practice and engineering control for minimizing flour dust, the concentration of flour dust could be reduced to less than 3.5 mg/m³ (95th percentile).