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Toxic Docs is a dataset and website. It contains millions of pages of once-secret corporate documents about asbestos, polyvinyl chloride, benzene, silica, and lead. To read more, click here.

Citation for Toxic Docs is as follows:

For journalism: "Toxic Docs, a project based at Columbia University and the City University of New York," along with a link to www.toxicdocs.org for web formats.

For academic parenthetical styles: Chowkwanyun, M., Markowitz, G., Rosner, D. Toxic Docs: Version 1.0 [Database]. New York: Columbia University and City University of New York. 2018.

For academic footnote/endnote styles: Chowkwanyun, Merlin, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner, Toxic Docs: Version 1.0, New York: Columbia University and City University of New York, 2018. http://www.toxicdocs.org

Merlin Chowkwanyun
Merlin Chowkwanyun is an Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences...
Gerald Markowitz
Gerald Markowitz is Distinguished Professor of History...
David Rosner
David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health...
Gwen Gillingham
Gwen Gillingham is a PhD Candidate in Linguistics...
Estzer Schoelle
Eszter D. Schoell received her doctorate in Human Biology...
Gautum Shine
Gautam Shine completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering...
Joanna Xing
Joanna Xing is currently pursuing her MPH at Columbia University...