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1 ACGIH, warned against using these things as legal
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2 standards.
3 They put together what they thought were
4 reasonable recommendations, but not as fine lines
5 between safe and unsafe conditions.
6 These values were not to be values that if
7 you exposed above it, would develop disease, but if
8 you exposed below it, you would not develop disease.
9 Q Did the five million particles per cubic
10 foot have any application to carcinogens?
11 A No. The basis of that value was the 1938
12 Dreessen study which was just the chest X-ray evidence
13 of asbestosis 14 Q Now , Doctor, I am going to move on to
15 another area.
16 MR. IGNATOWKSI: Your Honor, should I just
17 continue on? Okay.
18 BY MR. IGNATOWSKI:
19 Q We have seen some documents that have been
20 entered into evidence against Owens-Corning, and they
21 indicate that there were exposure levels from sawing