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1 A August of 1973.
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2 Q Did .Ford discuss any of these proposed
3 recommendations that they have made in August of '73
4 at the 1975 meeting?
5 AI believe so, yes.
6 Q I would like to now move on to -- you told
7 us a little bit, Dr. Dement, about exposure levels and
8 what the current levels are.
9 Has -OSHA done any risk assessment, and you
10 told us a little bit about risk assessment earlier,
11 about what diseases can occur at exposures under the
12 present levels?
13 A As part of the rule making process, OSHA has
14 to again review all of the world's literature and
15 develop what they think is an exposure level
16 appropriate to try to protect workers.
17 So they do a risk assessment, how much
18 exposure is related to disease and try to pull all of
19 the published literature together.
20 Q I would like to show you again -- this is
21 the document we originally started off with from the