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concerns is difficult to gauge, however it would certainly double or triple the figures I gave you earlier v/ith regard to the contribution of the member companies of the Asbestos Information Association. ' The asbestos industry has recognized for many years that there are occupational health hazards associated with the excessive in halation of asbestos dust over long periods of time. As a re sult, the industry, beginning in the late 1920s, has sponsored and' cooperated in a wide variety of scientific research projects designed to identify these hazards .and to eliminate them where-: ever they may exist, not only in asbestos mines, mills and manu facturing plants, but also among fabricators and applicators of finished asbestos products. Today, the asbestos industry, either as individual companies or through the-Quebec Asbestos Mining %' . Association's sponsorship of the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health in Montreal, is supporting medical research at such highly.regarded institutions as McGill University in Montreal, Tulane University in Louisiana, St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, the Environmental Sciences Laboratory at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, .the Industrial Health Foundation in Pitts burgh, the University of California at Berkley, Farleigh-Dickinson University in New Jersey, the University of Pittsburgh, the Medical College of South Carolina, and.a number of others, both, here and overseas. In addition, the industry has cooperated extensively -4- ' ' .81301 0552 HFM -001224