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Page 209 1 Q And in the '70s the published information, the 2 most frequently cited piece of published information is j 3 the Mt. Sinai study? 4 A No, probably the weakest of all the' studies are j 5 the Sinai studies. The most important and most j 6 frequently cited are the NIOSH study, most cited by i 7 those in the exposure assessment world. The most cited j 8 perhaps in general are the Sinai ones because they were 9 first. 10 Q Okay. 11 A And because they are in the peer review 12 literature. That's why they get cited. The NIOSH : 13 studies don't get cited because they are not in the 14 search engines. 15 Q In the NIOSH studies they began in the late . 16 1970s? 17 A Yes. 18 Q And they continued into the 1980s? 19 A That's true. 20 Q And the majority of those studies we're 21 looking for garages that were currently using control ; 22 methods? 23 A To a large measure that's true. 24 Q And part of that was because they wanted to 25 investigate whether the control methods that were being ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SERVICES (415) 288-4280