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ASrS^STi>5 <U MAS !//Tr fyet-CG-tC- S-FPE Cjrr tETHOSPHeC/ C * :I \ i. - c,m;Tf Asesmas camcsjis, /&z. PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT DOW-148 ST0513613 .1* -g^r|pjg|5 iSssras stos is automatically packaged at the mill and shipped in impermeable bags to nt dust exposure. (Photos: courtesy Asbestos Information Association/North `ca.| In the manufacturing plant, bogs of asbestos are opened and fiber handled in ways preventing exposure. smoking. Studies conducted of i any as 17,500 asbestos insulaworkers show that those who <e have a much greater risk of racting lung cancer than noncers in the general public -- that those asbestos industry :mcn who do not now smoke ettes and who have never <ed regularly, have no greater of lung cancer than the average in the street who does not ke. othelioma his disease is an extremely rare er of the lining of the chest :iral) or the abdominal cavity itoneum). It is found more freltly among those with occupail asbestos exposure than among general population. It also has i found among people who, in past, lived in close proximity to mtrolled crocidolite asbestos ts or mines, and even, on rare sions, in the households of etnees who worked in crocidolite stos factories or mines and presumably brought substantia] itities of this particular type of stos fiber into their homes on work clothes. This has not been id to be the case with individuals >sed only to chrysotile asbestos, :h accounts for 97 per cent of asbestos fiber used in the United is today. ecause the latent period for mesothelioma ranges from 30 to 45 years, it is impossible at this late date to determine precisely the ex posure levels experienced by these "neighborhood" and "household" cases. However, they were probably quite high by today's standards. In any case, as technology was devel oped for the control of asbestos dust levels, both in the plant and out, these potentially hazardous condi tions have been greaty reduced, if not eliminated. A relatively small number of cases have also been reported among employees in shipyards and on con struction projects who, while not working directly with asbestos, were exposed to heavy concentrations of air-borne fiber by working in close proximity to those who did. Ex posures of this type have been re duced by strictly enforced industrial safety devices and procedures. ^Asbestos and the General Public The Asbestos Information Asso ciation/North America states: There is no evidence -- ei ther from experience or from scientific research -- that any one in the general public has ever contracted any asbestosrelated disease from exposure to minute amounts of asbestos dust being found in community air, which are many times lower than those levels that have been demonstrated to result in no excess of disease in occupa tionally exposed populations. That conclusion is supported by both the Asbestos Panel of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Biologic Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants, and the 33member Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers of the Interna tional Agency for Research on Can cer, a division of the World Health Organization. In its 1971 booklet. Asbestos, the Need for and Feasibility of Air Pollution Controls, the NAS Asbes tos Panel, which consisted of seven of the nation's experts on asbestos and health, stated: There is no evidence that persons in the general popula tion -- without occupational, household, or neighborhood exposures -- have any in creased risk of neoplasm, even though there may be ferrug inous bodies or fibers in their lungs. According to the Asbestos In formation Association, the report of the IARC Advisory Committee rep resents the consensus of present world medical opinion on all aspects' of the asbestos-health problem. rr 1 J tI :&r:: t c -c STOS13 6 14 stos is automatically packaged at the mill and shipped in impermeable bags to cnt dust exposure, (Photos: courtesy Asbestos Information Association/North ica.) In the manufacturing plant, bogs of asbestos are opened and fiber handled in ways preventing exposure. smoking. Studies conducted of iany as 17,500 asbestos insulaworkers show that those who <e have a much greater risk of racting lung cancer than non<ers in the general public -- that those asbestos industry tmen who do not now smoke ettes and who have never ccd regularly, have no greater of lung cancer than the average in the street who does not ke. othelioma his disease is an extremely rare er of the lining of the chest ural) or the abdominal cavity itoneum). It is found more freltly among those with occupall asbestos exposure than among general population. It also has i found among people who, in past, lived in close proximity to mtrolled crocidolite asbestos ts or mines, and even, on rare .sions, in the households of emees who worked in crocidolite stos factories or mines and presumably brought substantial itities of this particular type of stos fiber into their homes on : work clothes. This has not been id to be the case with individuals jsed only to chrysotile asbestos, bh accounts for 97 per cent of hsbestos fiber used in the United ts today. 1 ecause the latent period for mesothelioma ranges from 30 to 45 years, it is impossible at this late date to determine precisely the ex posure levels experienced by these "neighborhood" and "household" cases. However, they were probably quite high by today's standards. In any case, as technology was devel oped for the control of asbestos dust levels, both in the plant and out, these potentially hazardous condi tions have been greaty reduced, if not eliminated. A relatively small number of cases have also been reported among employees in shipyards and on con struction projects who, while not working directly with asbestos, were exposed to heavy concentrations of air-borne fiber by working in close proximity to those who did. Ex posures of this type have been re duced by strictly enforced industrial safety devices and procedures. ~ Asbestos and the General Public The Asbestos Information Asso ciation/North America states: There is no evidence -- ei ther from experience or from scientific research -- that any one in the general public has ever contracted any asbestosrelated disease from exposure to minute amounts of asbestos dust being found in community air, which are many times lower than those levels that have been demonstrated to result in no excess of disease in occupa tionally exposed populations. That conclusion is supported by both the Asbestos Panel of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Biologic Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants, and the 33member Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers of the Interna tional Agency for Research on Can cer, a division of the World Health Organization. In its 1971 booklet. Asbestos, the Need for and Feasibility of Air Pollution Controls, the NAS Asbes tos Panel, which consisted of seven of the nation's experts on asbestos and health, stated: There is no evidence that persons in the general popula tion -- without occupational, household, or neighborhood exposures -- have any in creased risk of neoplasm, even though there may be ferrug inous bodies or fibers in their lungs. According to the Asbestos In formation Association, the report of the IARC Advisory Committee rep resents the consensus of present world medical opinion on all aspects of the asbestos-health problem. I C( 1 J (( :\os is outomatically packaged at the mill and shipped in impermeable bags to .nt dust exposure. (Photos: courtesy Asbestos Information Association/North ca.) In the manufacturing plant* bags of asbestos are opened and fiber handled in ways preventing exposure. ST05I36IS smoking. Studies conducted of any as 17,500 asbestos insulaworkers show that those who <e have a much greater risk of acting lung cancer than non<ers in the general public -- that those asbestos industry :men who do not now smoke cites and who have never <cd regularly, have no greater of lung cancer than the average in the street who does not <e. ^thelioma lis disease is an extremely rare er of the lining of the chest iral) or the abdominal cavity itoneiun). It is found more freitly among those with occupail asbestos exposure than among general population. It also has found among people who, in last, lived in close proximity to mtrolled crocidolite asbestos ts or mines, and even, on rare sions, in the households of emces who worked in crocidolite stos factories or mines and presumably brought substantial ;tities of this particular type of stos fiber into their homes on work clothes. This has not been d to be the case with individuals >sed only to chrysotile asbestos, h accounts for 97 per cent of isbestos fiber used in the United s today. :cause the latent period for mesothelioma ranges from 30 to 45 years, it is impossible at this late date tb determine precisely the ex posure levels experienced by these "neighborhood" and "household" cases. However, they were probably quite high by today's standards. In any case, as technology was devel oped for the control of asbestos dust levels, both in the plant and out, these potentially hazardous condi tions have been greaty reduced, if not eliminated. A relatively small number of cases have also been reported among employees in shipyards and on con struction projects who, while not working directly with asbestos, were exposed to heavy concentrations of air-borne fiber by working in close proximity to those who did. Ex posures of this type have been re duced by strictly enforced industrial safety devices and procedures. Asbestos and the General Public The Asbestos Information Asso ciation/North America states: There is no evidence -- ei ther from experience or from scientific research -- that any one in the general public has ever contracted any asbestosrelated disease from exposure to minute amounts of asbestos dust being found in community air, which are many times lower than those levels that have been demonstrated to result in no excess of disease in occupa tionally exposed populations. That conclusion is supported by both the Asbestos Panel of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Biologic Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants, and the 33member Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers of the Interna tional Agency for Research on Can cer, a division of the World Health Organization. In its 1971 booklet, /Isbestos, the Need for and Feasibility of Air Pollution Controls, the NAS Asbes tos Panel, which consisted of seven of the nation's experts on asbestos and health, stated: There is no evidence that persons in the general popula tion -- without occupational, household, or neighborhood exposures -- have any in creased risk of neoplasm, even though there may be ferrug inous bodies or fibers in their lungs. According to the Asbestos In formation Association, the report of the IARC Advisory Committee rep resents the consensus of present world medical opinion on all aspects of the asbestos-health problem. r 1 J