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ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

Occupational cancer risk in pilots and flight attendants: Current epidemiological knowledge, Blettner, et al; August 1998
FAA Advisory Circular 120-52 Radiation Exposure of Air Carrier Crew, 1990
What Aircrews Should Know About Their Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, Wallace Friedberg, Kyle Copeland, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Federal Aviation Administration; OCT 2003
Monitoring Microbial Populations on Wide-Body Commercial Passenger Aircraft, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 5 December 2007
Amyloid-β Dynamics are Regulated by Orexin and the Sleep-Wake Cycle, National Institutes of Health; November 9, 2009
Airline pilot cosmic radiation and circadian disruption - Oxford University 23MAR2011
AIRCRAFT DISINSECTION INSECTICIDES, IOMC: INTER-ORGANIZATION PROGRAMME FOR THE SOUND MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICALS, WHO, 2013
Aircraft Recirculation Filter for Air-Quality and Incident Assessment, National Institute of Health, 2014
Examples of aircraft cabin air and HEPA filters:  Keddeg Company
FAA Advisory Circular 120-61b:  Subject: In-Flight Radiation Exposure, 21NOV2014
Air Crew Studies, Barbara Grajewski, Ph.D., National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), April 15, 2015
AEROTOXIC SYNDROME: A NEW OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE? By Susan Michaelis, Jonathan Burdon, and C. Vyvyan Howard; PUBLIC HEALTH PANORAMA, VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 2 | JUNE 2017 | 141-356.
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