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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1973 Nov 25 DOC NMA080 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Conferees Study Asbestos Hazard eu . ' CONFEREES STUDY ASBESTOS s reentrant cee 125 From 13 Countries Find That Lethal Mineral is Present Everywhere BY JANE E. BRODY Pedals Pedals The New York Puss gathered hare in DURHAM More than 125 scientists from 13 coum- tries in thethe midst of the gathered country country last week Nov. 25 1973 NYT human environ In three days of intense dis- cussion and debate no final conclusions were reached 4 few worrisome preliminary were find- questions were raised lenged: abestoabsestos . wherethatdrinking air in water ways in drinking water drugs foods and beverages and and We Inhaled quantities powder large quantities an- Inhaled is causing in capacitatingdangerous lethal clauncnegrs and disease Theconference called National Institute of Environ by tho mental Health Sciences was prompted largely by the discov- ddrrinikinngkienagrlier of that the othwearter Buluth Minn and cities on Lake Su- with asbestos heavilycontaminated company 87,000 company that has dump into the tonstons of rocky ikke cach wastwe aste day for 17 years Kining of the chest or abdomen directs Recently Dr. Irving J. Sell- koff who a Federally sponsored asbestos asbestos research center at Mount Sinai Medical Center reported that asbestos had an increased . University asbestos might the digestive tract Dr. Sidney Laskin of New York noted that 29 to 50 per of inhaled particles were cent likely to be coughed up and then , awallowed i ef Jatonsive studies of the facts of asbestos consumptioni on a variety of experimental~fl wanaiymals profipmroiflimiialirayry findings presentedpresented to the meeting intestifniebrousmeting indi- blodstream through the can pass the small bloodstream and intestine get into lymph indimineral wall or the, system and become widely the widely distributed body organs in- ylear A pilot study conducted in and developed cancer the animais alone mixed Canada resutied in kidney chest tumors in three ut . las rals fod asbestos with com oil although none of given card oll toatmihneatriosn ources Asbestos represents asbestos conrepresents a clas- Industrial problem that our moderni and over society" will face over effects And since the lionith of asbestos often do not show after up until 20 to 30 years Initial exposure avon if we atop all asbestos exposure to- will continue to , we evidence of disease well into the next century said Dr. Rob mcentuiry crobiologist ert Burrell at West Virginia University Dr. John Goldsmith of the Na- eliminated Institute urgedi that all unnecessary sources _ of asbestos bo To ward this end the Center for Selence in the Public Interest Pund Environnwntal Pund havo filters . asbestos requested a Defeban nosne vadd tu process elimination asbestuk from tale beverages and dries of used in fonda as and well as in cosmetic powder :