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1 .unaware that the plasters that he used contained
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2 asbestos.
3 His exposure may have been overlooked by
4 statisticians.
5
MR. IGNATOWSKI: Your
Honor, may Iapproach
6 for just one second, please?
7 THE COURT: Please.
8 BY MR. IGNATOWSKI:
9 Q In fact, Doctor, what did Mr. Vandergucht
10 tell the doctors when he was asked about the products
11 he worked with, what they contained, in that same
12 record that Mr. McGowan showed you?
13 A He said they contained Portland Cement,
14 gypsum and lime.
15 Q Thank you. That is a case where he didn't
16 know that those products contained asbestos?
17 A Apparently in 1980 he was unaware that those
18 products contained asbestos. In fact, he may have, by
19 a statistician, fallen into that 20 percent.
20 He may have been called a nonasbestos
21 related mesothelioma when, in fact, he was an