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1 workers had shorter exposure, hadn't had sufficient
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2 accumulation of fibers to develop the disease.
3 What he found in his population was that
4. there was asbestosis,' there was lung cancer and there
5 was mesothelioma.
6 He pointed out that his work, and others
7 such as Fleischer and Drinker, had shown that the
8 average level of exposure of insulators was less than
9 five million particles per cubic foot.
10 Most of the data suggested it was around 1
11 to 2 million particles per cubic foot, but that
12 despite being exposed to this level, if you gave
13 enough years of exposure, disease occurred.
14 And, therefore, the five million particles
15 was clearly too high.
16 Q Doctor, this was published at the, I
17 believe, December 31, 1965, this report?
18 A That is right.
19 Q So it got out on the street, is it fair to
20 say, in 1966?
21 A Yes. I ran across it when I was in