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1 .it had to be read and then had to have no disease on Page 2061 2 the chest X-ray. 3 If you had disease, then you were not 4 allowed to work in the industry. You actually had to 5 get a card that said you had an X-ray and that you 6 were allowed to work in the industry. 7 Prior to Dr. Dreessen's study, this law was 8 passed. 9 The first round in the factories that Dr. 10 Dreessen studied, they found a number of workers, over 11 100, that had asbestosis, so they were dismissed and 12 couldn't work in the industry. 13 So when Dr. Dreessen came through, those 14 workers were already gone, so the sickest workers were 15 already dismissed, so his study would be untrue of the 16 risk, and he tried to contact those workers, but he 17 basically was not very successful. 18 Q And did Dr. Dreessen come to any conclusions 19 about the levels of exposure as it relates to the 20 disease asbestosis? 21 A Dr. Dreessen acknowledged the limitations of