Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (S.R.)

Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California (P.D.B.).

Previously published in part in Ronsmans S. Occupational Exposure and Respiratory Diseases. Doctoral thesis. KU Leuven; 2022.

Acknowledgment: The authors thank Pascale Welvaert (Amsab-Institute of Social History, Ghent, Belgium), Robin Debo (Centre for Technical, Industrial and Scientific Heritage of the Museum of Industry, Ghent, Belgium), and Karel Van Damme and Dominique Allard (Safe Work Information Center—Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue, Brussels, Belgium) for their contribution in the search for archives in the preparation of this article and Prof. Benoit Nemery for his comments on the manuscript.

Financial Support: Dr. Ronsmans is supported by KU Leuven C2 project funding (C24/18/085).

Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M22-2630.

Corresponding Author: Steven Ronsmans, MD, PhD, Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49—Box 706, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: steven.[email protected]be.

Author Contributions: Conception and design: S. Ronsmans, P.D. Blanc.

Analysis and interpretation of the data: S. Ronsmans, P.D. Blanc.

Drafting of the article: S. Ronsmans.

Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: P.D. Blanc.

Final approval of the article: P.D. Blanc, S. Ronsmans.

Collection and assembly of data: S. Ronsmans, P.D. Blanc.

This article was published at Annals.org on 10 January 2023.