Health Status of Workers in a Hair Processing Factory, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: A Cross Sectional Study

Human hair processing is a discrete business in India. One of the main reason for this is the wide availability of virgin human hair owing to the country’s rich religious and spiritual practises. The custom of sacrificing human hair to Gods as an act of sacrifice, thanks giving, supplication and worship is much prevalent in our country. These practises provide huge source of raw material available for human hair processing.