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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1972 June 7 DOC NMA063 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Asbestos Code Kept Despite a Warning ASBESTOS CODE KEPT DESPITE A WARNING Special to The New York Times The New York Times Currentfile Jun 7 1972 ProQuest Ristorical Newspapers New York Tunes 185 - 2002 PB 91 ASBESTOS CODE kept DESPITE A WARNING Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON June The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ordered today a continuation of asbestos dust exposure limits for four more years despite the recommenda tions by a scientific panel that they be cut by more than half On the basis of mounting medical evidence of asbestoscaused cancer in the vicinity of plants using the material Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson had issued a temporary emergency standard of five fibres of asbestos per cubic centimeter of air for workers using the substance A'celing A'celling of 10 fitres per cubic centimeter was set the maximum exposure for workers in an eight day The called consensus standard originally promulgat ed under the new safety and health law set a standard of 12 fibres per cubic centimeter and double that for an eight- After settingsetting thethe emergencyemergency an emergency appeal standard on the Industrial Union Depart- ment of the American Federa- tion of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations the Secretary named a scientific advisory committee that in- cluded doctors industrial hy gienists and engineers to recommend a permanent standard This group proposed a standard of two fibres per cubic centimeter of air and a maximum exposure limit of five fibres for an eight day The Secre tary ruled today that the twofibre limit would become effective July 1 1976. The eight- hour exposure limit was to re- main at 10 fibres Reproduced with perlesion of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission