Maremont objects to plaintiffs interrogatories and document requests to the extent they seek information subsequent to Maremont ceasing production of any asbestos- containing product. 8.

Maremont objects to plaintiffs interrogatories and document requests to the extent they seek information subsequent to Maremont ceasing production of any asbestos- containing product. 8.

Mastromatteo is a member ofthe Ontario Medical Association, and Chaired the Section on Occupational Health and the Committee on Public Health, He is a member ofthe c^nttAiam Medical Association.

INTERROGATORY NO. 3: Please list all trade organizations, trade associations and any other industry-wide groups to which you belong(ed) (specifically including but not limited to the following groups: American Hygiene Foundation, Chemical Manufacturer's Association, American Chemical Council, American Petroleum Institute, Texas Chemical Council, Ohio Safety Congress, National Safety Council, Asbestos Information Association, Industrial Medical Association) in which information or documents relating to asbestos was discussed, disseminated, or published (including, but not limited to, the effects of exposure to asbestos, industrial hygiene measures relating to asbestos dust, and medical information or research relating to asbestos or its effects on animals or humans, populations at risk).

Corporations generally have law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue (Jones, Day) and the PR companies Hill and Knowllon (H & K) and the best information about their own products, and are usually aware of the safety risks involved.

BILLINGS MSC Much of the debate about the relationship between from automobile brake work and asbestos exposure has been fueled by studies induced cancer that have been funded by corporations with billions at stake in tort litigation The authors explore how asbestos brake manufacturers have corrupted medical literature to escape liability analyzing studies funded by these companies to enable them to claim that work with asbestos brake linings never causes mesothelioma They reveal how the companies have redefined scientific criteria for the determination of manipulated effect relationships and scientific of an absence of effect data to give the impression of the But the absence of evidence is not evidence absence of an effect Key words mesothelioma health brake occupational asbestos corruption mechanics INT J OCCUP ENVIRON HEALTH 360-371 thousands of automobile and n recent years shade amateur mechanics have sought for asbestos disease from compensation the fact manufacturers of asbestos brakes Despite that these brakes are 40-70 asbestos the brake man- ufacturers have vigorously denied that they contributed of asbestos disease in any way to a single case The brake manufacturers have dismissed the fact that there is no known threshold of exposure associated with mesothelioma a rare cancer of the pleura or peri- peri- toneum and that in some cases the only documented are those that have occurred as a worker exposures brakes.

Based upon available information, components of at least a portion of such products were: Asbestos, 5R

Based upon available information, components of at least a portion of such products were: Asbestos, 5R

GAF objects to 4 the final sentence of Interrogatory No. 4 on the ground that the 5 information requested is not relevant to the subject matter of 6 this action nor reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery 7 of admissible evidence.

Gibbs may testify generally as to the dangers posed by the inhalation of asbestos fibers, the relative risks associated with exposure to low levels of airborne asbestos dust in the general environment, and the risks posed to Plaintiff from his alleged exposure to airborne asbestos dust.

Because ofthese limitations on Abex's information, the responses that follow are based only upon the information and belief.

Uniroyal objects to any request which seeks information about any asbestos-containing products it may have manufactured or sold because plaintiffs have not produced any evidence of exposure to any Uniroyal asbestos-containing product.

Wilson on no knowledge of data on pleural mesothelioma being associated with asbestos dust exposure "Diffuse Pleural Mesotheliomas & Asbestos Exposure in the North Western Cape Province", by J.C.

In addition to published information o f all kinds, I examined files, unpublished information available from the U.S. government archives, the archives o f scientists and the archives of institutions that had worked for and with asbestos companies. 6.

The Interrogatories herein seek information for a period of 70 to 80 years.