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Page 3391 1 And the organizer of the conference was Dr. 2 Selikoff, and probably the most important paper in 3 this rather large volume that was published was 4 Selikoff's study of insulation workers in the New 5 York/New Jersey area. 6 As I say, previously Fleischer and Drinker 7 had looked at pipecoverers and hadn't found much 8 disease. 9 However, when Selikoff studied the members 10 of the asbestos union, in which he was able to examine 11 virtually all of the workers both actively working and 12 retired of those that had died, he found the cause of 13 death. 14 And when he put this together, he found that 15 there was a lot of disease, particularly in people 16 exposed for more than 20 years. And if he looked at 17 people exposed more than 30, more than 40, those 18 exposed more than 40 years, about 80 percent of them 19 had evidence of asbestos-related disease. 20 When he looked back at what Fleischer and 21 Drinker had done, the problem obviously was their