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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 May 29 DOC NMA152 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Dodge Construction News Article - Contractors Advised to Investigate Consider Health Facts on Asbestos FDFD 26-32C DODGE CONSTRUCTION NEWS BLY 450 MAY 29 1970 Contractors advised to consider health facts legiislnaatvisveebsetsitgoaste insulation Concern is growing nationwide for the safety of tradesmen spraying asbestan fireproofing and Some medical researchers are in evidence that compil- sprayed asbestos can cause cancer in theme mentine mentine mentine aterial or work closely with it New York having reviewed statistics compiled by the American Cancer Socie- ty and by New York medical research HER Telecel, larepeme n wens which have Wil. SS pam ila eet be New New City's tic: | that hey York City's Dept of Air Ra sources had prepared new regulations and has uH ---- | t the and building p.ojects in violation A fourth asbestos st.caying contractor has voluntarily stopron work thus halting bes tos a Live New York area California legislators are considering 3 on bill tos steps and have introduced a to prohibit the insulation of subes inside systems in public Great Britain after having compile information linking pulmonary and intestinal Cancers to ailesios last year restricted asbestos After asbestos firs firs have enstperraeydintghe -intential -intential .., Theo mer J- eee meme 8 tee El El 2.3 tote a Jmirr Jmirr accing to some medical ming pereis Lonse to which are 17-114 and dust particle app . along with the milions of microsonic Som Se : nu medical research- ers and are said in have thair case against aberta of cancer and genera strengthened as source Asbestosis cuses a scarring that imphus lungs so severely that they cannot A ausord cient exyren As airborne asbestos creates a & Worry so grow the problem of re- trictions causing skyrocketing unit prices in excess of 60 per square fo0 mys a Chicardiend sprayed reproof- roofing material The asbestos 100 per centre stone fibre used in other ireproofing and insuisting applicatione ras over the years provided customers with ... " low price coupled with a oat tg mse Bebsctle, coupled Uelep Come Come the may may may b te: develop- are said to be in the process of ng a non asbestos asbestos Inicial Inicial consisung ni mineral want and wher hinder rat identified at a cost of about 10 per cent more than spray asbestos fiber Company omesas are even to have develop the new mattia se vi the safety and health controversy ising over asbestos DODGE CONSTRUCTION NEWS May 29 1970