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cardboard boxes according to size. The brand name appeared on the package as did the product name. Abex further states that in the mid-1970's at the latest, and perhaps earlier, Abex commenced the placement of warning labels on its asbestos-containing automotive friction products. This label reads as follows:
Caution Contains Asbestos Fibers
Avoid Creating Dust Breathing Asbestos Dust May Cause
Bodily Harm
Serious
Abex believes this warning was first placed on its asbestos-
containing automotive friction products in order to comply wit.h
OSIIA regulations*. Abex" does not believe the wording of this
warning was ever changed. Discovery investigation is ongoing.
Abex expressly reserves the. right to supplement this answer.
(g) Abex's asbestos-containing automotive
friction products contained approximately 25 to 70 percent
chrysotile asbestos only. Discovery and investigation is
ongoing. Abex expressly, reserves the right to supplement this
answer.
(h) See Answer to Interrogatory No. 5(g).
(i) See Answer to Interrogatory No. 5(c).
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(c) Abex-.-never mined asbestos. Abex manufactured
and sold asbestos-containing automotive friction products from
approximately 1926 to 1987. Abex believes that this friction
product was manufactured from 1974 and its trademark abandoned in
1994. Discovery and investigation is ongoing. Abex expressly
reserves the right to supplement this answer. In addition, the
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