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1 literature that you saw, the case reports and the
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2 material that you reviewed, do you have an opinion,
3 again, with reasonable scientific certainty as to when
4 it became known in the medical and scientific
5 community that end users as opposed to those
6 manufacturing people, were at risk of developing
7 asbestos-related disease?
8 A Well, the articles started in the '30s.
9 Merewether described the exposures of the end users.
10 The important thing is that it is the asbestos
11 exposure that caused the disease.
12 It doesn't make a difference between the
13 manufacturing plant or end users. The key is the
14 asbestos.
15 So, yes, the same time we started to see the
16 cases in the literature in the mid '30s throughout the
17 time period end users are described and got disease in
18 known exposed individuals.
19 Q And now, Doctor, did there come a time when
20 there started to appear in the medical and scientific
21 literature reports of the association between asbestos