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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1971 Dec 3 DOC NMA058 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Study Finds Risk in Asbestos Level NePwB.37 YorkTimes Curre filenDet c3 1971 ProQuest Historical Newspapers the New York Times 1851 - 2002 STUDY FINDS RISK IN ASBESTOS LEVEL Hazard Noted in Breathing Formerly Safe Amounta . safe team byfinding The reported yester- the New Jour- should be lowered and that there is now a clear need for more decisive action on contral measures The study involved 195 workers in a private New England New Standard Asked Several researchers and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Or ganizations have recently asked the United States of Labor to set a new emer- gency standard of two fibers per milliliter on grounds the fiber level represents a serious danger to the health of asbestos asbestos . consideration under the AdministrationSafety cupational and Health level Actually even a level of two fibers per milliliter which is thousandth of a liter may be hazardous according to an other study by Dr. and Murphy his colleagues They foundfound that colleagues They sanded some as bestos floor tiles also developed lung disease after chronic ex- posure milliliter to an level of 1.3 fibers per milliliter - The journal editorial noted that even at a level of 1 fiber milliliter a worker breath- ing 15 liters of air each minute for eight hours would inhale 10 million fibers every work day Although a fraction of only the remains Dec3. 1971