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Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports 8005 1370 Vol. S, No. 3 Fall 1973 from the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Editor; W. J, Nicholson, Ph.D., Pub lished at the. Environmental Sciences Laboratory (Irving J. Selikoff, M.D., Director), Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York, N.Y. 10029 Advisory Council of I1HRP Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. Program Director and Chairman E. Coylcr Hammond, Sc.D., Vice Presi dent, American Cancer Sociely. New York, N.Y. Andrew Haas. General President, Interna tional Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, Washington. D.C. Fred L. Pundsack, Ph.D. Vice President, Research and Development. JohnsManville Corporation, Denver. Colo. Mn. Anne Mackler of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of Mount Sinai School of Medicine collecting senled dust from the stairway near which asbestos contaminated work clothes were hung in this home. Above her shoulder is located an air sampling unit. Household Contamination is a Serious Problem Control of insulation dusts on the job rect association with asbestos products. PURPOSES OF THE site is necessary to protect, not only Nevertheless, because of the rarity INSULATIONINDUSTRY HYGIENE RESEARCH PROGRAM insulation workers, but also members of their families. Special concern for the family mem bers of insulators has recently de of such tumors in children, this particu lar case does give one pause. It was a similar single isolated case of lung cancer described in the medical litera 1. To develop improved methods veloped because of the finding of a lung ture in 1935 that first pointed to the risk for minimizing exposure of insu tumor in the nine year old daughter of a of such disease in asbestos workers. lation workers to dusts and fumes encountered in their work. 2, To disseminate knowledge of New Jersey Union member. The tumor was localized and successfully re moved by surgery. Air Samples Collected Samples of the air and specimens of these improved methods of dust control wherever they may be applied advantageously and to offer cooperation, advice and assistance toward their universal adoption. Asbestos Found in Lung Electron microscopic analysis at the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the tissue removed from the lung showed significant amounts of chrysotile asbes settled dust from the room of the child and elsewhere in the home were col lected by Mrs. Anne Mackler and Dr. Arthur Rohl of the Environmental Sci ences Laboratory. The analysis of these samples showed significant amounts of asbestos to be present in the tos and diatomaceous eanh to be pres child's bedroom and in the basement (Continued from first page) ent. much in excess of what is typically play area near where the husband's found in a child of nine. Both chrysotile work clothes were hung and where highly efficient in the respirators tested, and diatomaceous earth are common these clothes were laundered. the face seals that can be obtained are components of insulation material. In a more extensive sampling pro much less effective. These respirators The existence of the tumor and the gram of a variety of asbestos workers' passed an approval schedule that re finding of insulation material in the homes, including those of mill work quired only 90** of the dust to be ex lung in this isolated case does not dem ers, asbestos has universally been cluded by the face seat. Your choice of onstrate that these fibers and panicles found to be present, usually in concen-a-respirator-should-thus-be-based on-the-- -necessarily--caused--the--tumor;----tralions-much-higher-than-those-of-lhe- fit that can be achieved on vour face and Chrysotile asbestos, albeit in lower above case. Chrysotile air concentra comfort during use. You don't have to amounts, is found in the lungs of many tions may range from 100 times to over worry about fibers penetrating the filter. individuals, children, as well as adults,who have had no direct or indi 1000 rimes those found-in general city air. HFM -013152 PRODUCED BY FORD