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1 A I actually live in Cary, North Carolina, a
2 suburb of Raleigh. 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
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6 University Medical Center.
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7 Q Do you teach at Duke?
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8 A Yes, I teach and do research.
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
14 tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury what
15 industrial hygiene is.
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.
21 Q How far back does the practice of industrial