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1 A I actually live in Cary, North Carolina, a
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2 suburb of Raleigh.
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3 Q What is your current job?
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4 A I am associate professor again in the
5 Division of Occupational Medicine in the Duke
6 University Medical Center.
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7 Q Do you teach at Duke? 8 A Yes, I teach and do research.
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9 Q What do you teach?
10 A I teach in the areas of industrial hygiene
11 and epidemiology.
12 Q Now, Dr. Dement, you are the first
13 industrial hygienist to testify, so could you please
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14 tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury what
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15 industrial hygiene is.
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16 A Well, industrial hygiene is the profession
17 that is involved and charged with identification,
18 evaluation, and control of hazards in the workplace.
19 Q Is it a new science? 20 A No.
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21 Q How far back does the practice of industrial