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1 summarized the results for Owens-Illinois.
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2 Now, Saranac did not expose these laboratory
3 animals to five million particles per cubic foot of
4 air, the standard that we have been talking about.
5 Instead, they exposed the animals to 120
6 million particles and up to 200 million particles per
7 cubic foot, and they did it 24 hours a day, five and a
8 half days a week. They overexposed the animals.
9 Saranac updated Owens-Illinois as to the
10 results of the studies. And you are going to see the
11 documents.
12 During the first three years, all of the
13 tests were negative. Owens-Illinois was advised, and
14 everything is going well.
15 The fifth year into the study, Owens-
16 Illinois was advised that, under these test
17 conditions, the extremely high concentrations of
18 asbestos dusts, mild fibrosis was induced in one of
19 the three species of animals that were being tested.
20 As a result of that, at that time,
21 Owens-Illinois took certain actions. It hired Saranac