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1 A That is one area.
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2 Q It goes on to say they are not fixed values,
3 but are reviewed annually by the committee on the
4 threshold limit values for changes, revisions or
5 additions as further information becomes available.
6 Threshold limit values should be used as
7 guides in the control of health hazards and should not
8 be regarded as a fine line between safe and dangerous
9 conditions.
10 Let me stop there.
11 Now, that is what you have been saying all
12 along, isn't it?
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Yes.
14 Q But then it goes on to say, they represent
15 conditions only within which it is felt that workers
16 may be repeatedly exposed day after day without their
17 health being adversely affected.
18 So what they are saying in the next sentence
19 is based upon what we know in 1953, they can be
20 exposed to these levels, and we feel in '53 that they
21 won't get sick.