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1 Milwaukee in the spring of '66, and actually read a Page 3393 2 fair amount of it at that time. 3 Q Doctor, did Dr. Selikoff call for a ban of 4 asbestos? 5 A No. He pointed out it was still a very 6 useful product, and the job was to decide how to use 7 it safely. And obviously the levels of dust control 8 had to be more stringent than five million particles 9 per cubic foot. 10 Q Did they actually call for reduction in the 11 TLVs at that time? ; 12 A Yes, and the ACGIH, as of '68, proposed that 13 the level be reduced and, over the course of the ' 70s ; 14 and ' 80s , it was reduced even further. 15 Q All right. Doctor, was there an association 16 between exposure to amosite and chrysotile asbestos 17 and mesothelioma in the 1960s? 18 A No, not in the 1960s. 19 In fact, if you read the discussion part of 20 the New York Academy of Science symposium, there are 21 comments by South African pathologists in 1964 that