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ounce in the total United Kingdom beer production of over a thousand-million gallons a year. In addition, a concensus report from a 1972 international meeting on asbestos-health sponsored by the World Health Organization found no ``evidence of an increased risk of cancer resulting from asbestos fibers present in water, beverages, food or in the fluids used for the administration of drugs." QUESTION Is the atmosphere being polluted by asbestos sprays used to fireproof the superstructure of buildings under construction? ANSWER The use of asbestos-containing, spray-on fireproofing compounds in high-rise building construction has been banned in the United States by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because the methods developed for the control of emissions of fiber from these sources proved to be ineffective. Once this fact became established, the asbestos manufacturing industry concurred with the EPA that the use of spray fireproofing compounds should be prohibited. QUESTION Are asbestos-containing modeling compounds still being used by school children in art classes in the United States? ANSWER From time to time, a newspaper will carry a report that children in a local school or YWCA are using asbestos as a modeling compound to construct puppets or sculpt heads. This normally results in excited denunciations by local politicians and others, who demand that the practice be stopped. Simply speaking, the asbestos industry agrees with them - the practice should be slopped: In November 1.971. the Asbestos Information Association sent a caution letter on this subject to nearly 5,000 teachers associations, hobby and craft publications, state boards of education, boy an etc. This letter sai "It has come 1 youth activity grot substitute for mod "We feel str discontinued. Altl exposed are prob health, we do k occupational settii "For this rea; asbestos for hobby As a result of many of the group of asbestos. When practice has not warning are sent t>