[Brown lung is] an allergy. If you are exposed to cotton dust and develop any kind of respiratory problem, it can be corrected providing you have not been exposed for a very very long period.
From a quote of Robert Small, President of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, in the America’s Textile Reporter Bulletin article “OSHA Cotton Dust Standards”. August, 1978. From Organizing the Breathless, p. 123-124.
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