FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 2009 DOC TALC188 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Barry Castleman Statement on Cosmetic Use of Talc Cosmetic Use of Talc It has long been known that tale minerals are commonly contaminated with asbestos Fibrous tale miners in New York state were reported as having fibrosis ofthe lungs in 1943 an excessive rate of lung cancer in 1967 and cases of pleural mesothelioma more recently Early reports raised concern about talc itself as well as talc with asbestos minerals in it U.S. governmental researchers called attention to Fibrous and Mineral Content of Cosmetic Tale Products LJ Cralley et al Amer Indust Hyg Assoc J. pp 350-354 1968 which contained 8 to 30 percent offibrous materials The use of talc on surgical gloves was no longer recommended after that year Merck Index 1968 p 1011 cited in Blejer and Arlon Talc and Carcinoma ofthe Ovary and Cervix WJ Henderson et al J.
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FILE NAME: Talc (TALC) DATE: 2002 DOC#: TALC176 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Journal Article - A Cohort Mortality and Nested Case-Contol Study of French and Austrian Talc Workers Downloaded from oem.bmjjournals com on 12 April 2006 98 ORIGINAL ARTICLE A cohort mortality and nested case-control study of French and Austrian talc workers , P Wild, K Leodolter, M Refregier, H Schmidt,T Zidek, G Haidinger O ccu p Environ M e d 2 0 0 2 ,5 9 9 8 - 105 See end of article for authors' affiliations Correspondence to Dr P W ild , Avenue de Bourgogne, BP n 27, 54501 Vandoeuvre Cedex, France, Accepted 8 August 2 0 0 1 Objectives: To study whether the mortality from non-malignant and malignant respiratory diseases of workers employed in French and Austrian talc mines and mills is related to their long term occupational exposure.
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FILE NAME: Kelly Moore (KM) DATE: 2002 May 31 DOC#: KM048 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Deposition of Herbert R.
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FILE NAME: National Safety Council (NSC) DATE: 2003 DOC#: NSC159 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Barry Castleman Notes Page 1 of 1 Dr.
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FILE NAME: Westinghouse (WH) DATE: 2007 Oct 30 DOC#: WH511 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Excerpts from Douglas Ware 0001 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 0002 1 2 3 4 5 Ware, Doug 10-30-07 MDL CAUSE NO. 2006-12130 LOIS STROMBERG, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Individually and as Personal Representative of HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS the Hei rs and Estate of RAYMOND STROMBERG, llTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Plaintiff, vs.
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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 2001 Sept DOC BRK121 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Published Conference Abstract - Malignant Mesothelioma in Australia - Inhaled Particles Symposium Same as 116 07/09 07/09 01 11:211:020 FAX +4122 781 4129 a oe eee eee ee Inhaled Particles A Multidisciplinary Symposium Scientific Scientific Scientific Programme Revised Final Programme & Abstracts 2nd to 6th September 2001 Robinson College Cambridge UK - www.bohs.org MPa We MPR Ba ee LCR SE eee ES ee eet tt _ T o S on serl OTe ie MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA IN AUSTRALIA 1945-2000 Leigh J.
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FILE NAM E: Exxon (EXX) DATE: 2004 Apr 7 DOC#: EXX066 D O CU M EN T D ESC R IPTIO N : Legal - D ep osition o f N eill W eaver, M .D.
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FILE NAME: ORT DATE: 2007 ORT014 DOC#: ORT014 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Declaration of Gary Childress [Spear Exhibit 4] EXHIBIT 4 FAX 614 895 5610 K'IXJN CKKAMIC FDM 1&0U2 I I GABRIEL A.
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FILE NAME Cape Asbestos CAPE DATE 2003 DOC CAPE010 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Cape Asbestos Barking Health & Environment 1928-1946 American Journal of Industrial Medicine AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 109-119 2003 Historical Perspective Cape Asbestos Barking Health and Environment 1928-1946 Morris Greenberg MB FRCP FFOM RCP Background The mining of chrysotile began in the province of Quebec in the late 1870s Twenty years later while annual exports were still measured in hundreds of tonnes serious and lethal effects were being reported in England and shortly after in France In 1913 after a number of years of operating in South Africa Cape Asbestos Company established a factory in Britain in Barking Essex Some 15 years later in 1929 the local Medical Officer of Health was seeing their asbestotic workers at his Chest Clinic the local Chest Hospital was investigating them and publishing their findings and the Coroner began what was to be a long series of inquests Methods Documents from the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy The Royal School of Mines Central Library of Imperial College The Porton and Barking Archives and documents obtained by legal discovery were utilized in preparing this historical perspective Results Despite complaints from the local authority Parliament was assured that there was no special incidence of disease at Cape Barking and that its exhaust ventilation was quite up to the general standard and constantly being improved Reports on the factory environment and information on the health of Cape's workforce that are available for the years 1928 193p4rovide a less sanguine view of the situation as was confirmed by subsequent health reports on its workforce Conclusions The case of asbestos is considered as a paradigm for the economic considerations that are considered to justify the perpetuation of unsafe and unhealthy occupations decisions with which medical opinion can be found to concur Am J.
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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 2005 Nov DOC BRK160 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Abstract - Risk of Lung Cancer & Mesothelioma in Auto Mechanics - English Translation from French Entrez rudivie -> Search PubMed Display AbstractPlus for Show 20 Sort by Send to Go Clear 1 2005 491-500 Quantitative assessment of the risk of lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma among automobile mechanics Article in French i f ' Departement Sante Institut de Veille Sanitaire 12 rue du Val d'Osne 94415 Maurice Cedex e.imbernon@invs.sante.fr BACKGROUND A quantitative assessment of the risk of lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma among mechanics exposed to dust released from automobile containing parts was performed METHODS The population of automobile mechanics in France according to profession and industrial sectors codes was estimated from the data of the 1999 census Risks were computed for a total male population of 242,360 automobile mechanics aged 16 to 60 years Exposure to asbestos among these workers comes from maintenance tasks involving containing parts produced before 1997 date of the asbestos ban in France Airborne asbestos concentration data available from the literature were highly variable No data reporting the distribution of time spent for such tasks over a typical week of work were available Therefore different weekly exposure profiles were simulated based on data from the 1994 SUMER survey Risk models were those used for assessing asbestos health effects by all national and international agencies Exposure scenarios mixed different levels of exposure periods of time proportions of exposed workers and dates of the natural disappearance of the automobile fleet built before asbestos was banned in brakes and other parts The most realistic scenario hypothesizes that all automobile mechanics were exposed to asbestos that the exposure levels ranged from 0.06 and 0.25 fibers per week for the period before 1997 and between 0.01 and 0.06 fibers per week afterwards until 2010.
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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 2006 DOC BRK154 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to the Editor Response to Letter from File 153 - American Journal of Industrial Medicine AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 62-64 2006 Letter to the Editor Response to Letter from Paustenbach et al To the Editor We appreciate the interest expressed by Paustebach and colleagues in our study entitled Evaluation of the size and type of free particulates collected from unused asbestoscontaining brake components as related to potential for respirability which was published last year in this Journal AJIM 545-533 We were somewhat surprised to note that Paustebach and colleagues expected to find measurable TEM asbestos fibers on an unused brake component We assume that they mean asbestos fibers that can be detected by analytical transmission electron microscopy TEM However we do disagree with a number of their comments and conclusions They reference their study Paustenbach et al 2003 in which a survey of the world's literature on the subject of exposure to asbestos in automotive service facilities was carried out and comment that the airborne levels of asbestos are very low and in some cases detectable We con- ducted our study because it was unclear to us from the published literature whether respirable asbestos fibers that were smaller than those which would be detected and inclu- ded in a standard NIOSH count were readily released from new brake components or if they were tightly bound in inert matrix material and consequently not readily released Their comment goes to the salient point of our study that is that the asbestos fibers that are not included in such a fiber count or which are excluded by the count scheme still have the potential to cause disease The use of phase contrast The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler Tyler Texas ZERI Consulting Inc Tyler Texas Mark AL Atkinson is the Director of Research and Professor of Biochemistry Ronald Dodson is an Executive Vice President Correspondence to Ronald F Dodson ERI Consulting Inc. 2026 Republic Drive Ste A TyleTrX 75701. mail ron @ enconsulting com Accepted 22 September 2005 DOI 10 1002 20237.
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FILE NAME Kubota KUB DATE 2007 DOC KUB001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Response to Plaintiff's Interrogatories with Barry Castleman Notes foregoing and without waiving its objections KUBOTA responds as follows KUBOTA believes it did not subscribe to receive or review copies of the Asbestos Worker magazine 3 during the time period of distribution of Asbestos Pressure Pipe to the United States 4 I INNTT ERERR OR GAOTING TOERRORGA ATOYRYTN NO OOR66Y 66 S 6 Please state whether you subscribe to the Asbestos magazine and list the inclusive dates of your subscription 7 RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORY NO 66 8 9 KUBOTA objects to this interrogatory to the extent that it is compoundin violation of 10 California Code of Civil Procedure section 2030 KUBOTA further objects to this evidence 11 interrogatory as it is not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible to 12 the extent it seeks information for any period of time other than 1962 to 1975.
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FILE NAME: RT Vanderbilt (RTV) DATE: 2006 DOC#: RTV 120 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies - Asbestos-Selected Cancers A sbestos: S elected C ancers http ://w vw .nap.ed u/catato gn 1685.htm l ASBESTOS SELECTED CDtlCERS Committee on Asbestos: Selected Healtfi Effects Board on Population Health and Public Health Practices IN STITU TE O F M E D IC IN E OF THENATIONALACADEMES TEC NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS W ashington, D .C . www.nap.edu Copyright N ational A cadem y o f Sciences.
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FILE NAME: Shree Digvijay (SDV) DATE: 2008 May 2 DOC#: SDV037 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Handwritten Letter to Laurie from Barry Castleman RE Shree Digvijay File Barry Castleman, 5 c.V .
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FILE NAME: Allied Signal Bendix (ASB) DATE: 2004 Nov DOC#: ASB062 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Article - Corporate Counsel - The Usual Suspects CONTENT N O VEM BER 20 The Business Magazine For The Chief Legal Officer 12 Editor's Note 16 Letters 18 Contributors IN THE NEWS 21 High Noon For the first time, the firearms industry has settled suits brought by victims of gun violence. 24 It Ain't Over Till It's Over Does Sarbanes-Oxley's extension of the statute of limitations for fraud claims apply retroactively?
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