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FILE NAME: Talc (TALC) DATE: 2010 DOC#: TALC168 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Book Excerpt - Talc TJJM TALC 303 Kauppinen et al. (2002) described the prevalence o f exposure to talc among workers in the on-machine coating o f paper.
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FILE NAME Paccar PAC DATE 2012 Aug 22 DOC PAC006 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Dobson v Paccar Answer to Plaintiffs Interrogatories Ex C EXHIBIT C IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF ST LOV STATE OF MISSOURI TWENTY JUDICIAL CIRCUIT BY BERT DOBSON and GLORIA DOBSON Petitioner V. ) Cause No CC00841 ) ) ) ) A.W.
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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 2012 DOC BRK222 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Asbestos Diseases in Automobile Mechanics Ann Occup Hyg Vol No 1 pp 55-60 2012 'The Author 2011 Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Occupational Hygiene Society doi 10 mer066 Asbestos Diseases in Automobile Mechanics JACQUES AMEILLE,,NICOLE ROSENBERGMIREILLE MATRAT ALEXIS DESCATHA,,DOMINIQUE MOMPOINT LOUNIS HAMZI CATHERINE ATASSI MANUELA VASILE ROBERT GARNIERand CLAUDE PAIRON HP Unit^'de pathologie professionnelle H^pitalRaymond Poincar^'92380 Garches France 2AP Consultation de pathologie professionnelle Hopital Fernand Widal 75010 Paris France Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Unit^'de pathologie professionnelle 94000 Cr^'teilFrance INSERM Unit^'955 94000 Cr^'teilFrance HP Service de radiologie Hopital Raymond Downlade Poincar^'92380 Garches France HP Service de radiologie Hopital Fernand Widal 75010 Paris France Service de radiologie Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal 94000 Cr^'teilFrance Received 24 March 2011 in final form 23 June 2011 published online 28 September 2011 from htp:/anhyg.oxfrdjounals.org/ htp:/anhyg.oxfordjournals.org/ Purpose Automobile mechanics have been exposed to asbestos in the past mainly due to the htp:/anhyg.oxfrdjounals.org/ presence of chrysotile asbestos in brakes and clutches Despite the large number of automobile mechanics little is known about the malignant respiratory diseases observed in this popu- lation The aim of this retrospective multicenter study was to analyse the frequency of pleural htp:/anyg.oxfrdjuls and parenchymal abnormalities on resolution computed tomography HRCT in a popula- tion of automobile mechanics Methods The study population consisted of 103 automobile mechanics with no other source of occupational exposure to asbestos referred to three occupational health departments in the Paris area for systematic screening of asbestos diseases All subjects were examined by HRCT and all images were reviewed separately by two independent readers who in the case of by guest disagreement discussed until they reached agreement Multiple logistic regression models were constructed to investigate factors associated with pleural plaques Results Pleural plaques were observed in five cases 4.9 and interstitial abnormalities on consistent with asbestosis were observed in one case After adjustment for age smoking status February and a history of asbestos respiratory diseases multiple logistic regression models a showed significant association between the duration of exposure to asbestos and pleural pla- ques 18 2014 Conclusions The asbestos exposure experienced by automobile mechanics may lead to pleu- ral plaques The low prevalence of malignant asbestos diseases using a very sen- sitive diagnostic tool is in favor of a low cumulative exposure to asbestos in this population of workers Keywords asbestos automobile mechanics brakes resolution computed tomography pleural plaques INTRODUCTION The presence in the past of chrysotile asbestos in automobile brakes or clutches has given rise to con- cerns about increased risks of asbestos * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed Tel +33147107754 fax +33147107768 mail jacques.ameille@rpc.aphp.fr jacques.ameille@rpc.aphp.fr diseases among automobile mechanics Lemnen 2004 Paustenbach et al 2004 Welch 2007 A large number of automobile mechanics have been potentially exposed to asbestos According to the data of the 1999 census the estimated population of automobile mechanics aged 16-60 years in France was 242 360 Imbernon et al 2005 Partly due to the different methodologies employed available data concerning atmospheric measurements 55 56 J.
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FILE NAME: Ferro Engineering (FER) DATE: 2013 Aug 8 DOC#: FER007 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Plaintiffs' 1st Interrogatories & Requests for Production with Answers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASPIINGTON IN AND FOR KING COUNTY 9 10 JAMES B.
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FILE NAME: Sperry Rand (SR) DATE: 2019 Aug DOC#: SR007 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: BC Notes in Lombardo Case Sperry Rand Sperry Corporation Board Chairman Thomas Morgan was on the governing board of the National Safety Council in 1951.
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FILE NAME: Metalclad (METC) DATE: 2016 May 27 DOC#: METC024 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Deposition of Donald Trueblood 5-27-16 1 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA 2 FOR THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA 3 4 5 ) 6 DEAN LACY, Individually and ) as Successor-in-interest to ) 7 ARTHUR LACY; MELODY DONES, ) ) 8 Plaintiffs, ) case No.
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FILE NAME: National Lead (NATL) DATE: 2019 DOC#: NATL061 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: BC Notes National Lead National Safety Council (NSC) was established in 1912 in Chicago by big business to share information on occupational safety and health.
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FILE NAME: Square D(SQD) DATE: 2014 DOC#: SQD007 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Deposition of Redfield for Square D App#l IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE CITY OF ST.
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FILE NAME: Ford (FD) DATE: 2012 June 11 DOC#: FD218 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Legal - Declaration of Rudy Limpert 1 STEPHEN M.
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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 2019 July DOC TALC187 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Public Health Then and Now Article - Nondetected- The Politics of Measurement of Asbestos in Talc 1971-1976 PUBLIC HEALTH THEN AND NOW Nondetected The Politics of Measurement of Asbestos in Talc 1971-1976 David Rosner PhD MPH Gerald Markowitz PhD and Merlin Chowkwanyun PhD MPH The recent lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have raised the issue of what and when talcum powder manufacturers knew about the presence of asbestos in their products and what they did or did not do to protect the public level exposure to asbestos in talc is said to result in either mesothelioma or ovarian cancer Johnson & Johnson has claimed that there was no detectable asbestos in their products and that any possible incidental presence was too small to act as a carcinogen But what exactly does nondetected mean Here we examine the historical development of the argument that asbestos in talcum powder was nondetected We use a unique set of historical documents from the early 1970s when level pollution of talc with asbestos consumed the cosmetics industry We trace the debate over the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to guarantee that talc was up to 99.99 free of chrysotile and 99.9 free of amphibole asbestos Cosmetic talc powder manufacturers through their trade association pressed for a less stringent methodology and adopted the term nondetected rather than asbestos as a term of art Am J Public Health Published online ahead of print May 16 2019 e6 doi AJPH.2019.305085 "herecent lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and particularly the 4.8 billion verdict against the company have raised the issue of what and when talcum powder manufac- turers knew about the presence of asbestos in their products and what they did or did not do to protect the public.,, Since the 1960s asbestos even at low levels has been recognized as a cause of lung cancer and mesothelioma Since the early 1970s the cosmetics industry as represented by the Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association CTFA has claimed that there was either no asbestos or that any residual asbestos in their products was nondetected But what exactly does nondetected mean Here we examine the historical devel- opment of the argument that asbestos in talcum powder was nondetectable We use a unique set of historical documents from the early 1970s when the Food and Drug Administration FDA raised concerns over findings of low level pollution of talc with asbestoWse trace the debate over the FDA's efforts to guarantee that talc was up to 99.99 free of chrysotile and 99.9 free of amphibole asbestos Talc pow- der companies counterproposals were less stringent they proposed methodologies that were capable of detecting asbestos up to 99.5 The difference in these methodologies meant that potentially billions of asbestos fibers could be released into the air when babies were powdered or adults powdered themselves Cosmetic talc powder manufacturers pressed for the less stringent methodology and adopted the term nondetected asbestos rather than asbestos- free as a term of art The CTFA the industry trade association which represented companies such as Johnson & Johnson Col- gate Pfizer Mennen Avon and other manufacturers of cosmetic talc products spearheaded the efforts to define how to measure asbestos in talc These contests over method- ology were enormously important They should be seen as part of parallel battles over operationalization of regulatory terms Since 1958 the FDA had been embroiled in controversy over proper interpretation of the so- called Delaney clause which banned approval of food additives that were carcinogenic But how exactly to define zero as historian Sarah Vogel puts it was far from evident and resulted in decades of debates over the clause's interpretation.
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FILE NAME Kubota KUB DATE 2010 DOC KUB028 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Legal - Defendant Kubota's Responses to Plaintiffs Request for Production Set One Thomas C.
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FILE NAME: Talc (TALC) DATE: 2010 May 19 DOC#: TALC095 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Dr.
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FILE NAME: Talc (TALC) DATE: 2019 Feb DOC#: TALC189 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Journal Article - Asbestos Commercial Indian Talc Received: 8 August 2018 I Revised: 14 February 2019 I Accepted: 17 February 2019 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.2299 BRIEF REPORT W il e y n>Cho^.: 'or updates AMI KK W JiM R\ \ l Ol I M X M K I M Ml I H H M Asbestos in commercial indian talc Sean Fitzgerald BS, PG1 | Elizabeth Harty M P H J | Tushar Kant Joshi MBBS, MS, MSc3 Arthur L Frank MD, PhD4 i5 1Scientific Analytical Institute, Greensboro, North Carolina 2HHC Environmental, Lebanon, Ohio 3Mlnlstry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, Government of India, New Delhi, India 4Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Correspondence Arthur L Frank, MD, PhD, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, 3215 Market Street, 7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
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FILE NAME: INC D ATE: 2010 May 17 DOC#: INC006 D O CU M EN T D E S C R IP T IO N : Email to B C 5/27/2010 Gmail - International Nickel byCoagfe- Albert Donnay <albertdonnay@gmail.com> International Nickel 1 message Barry Castleman, ScD <barry.castleman@gmail.com> To: ADonnay@jhu.edu * new file, all attachments except "Expert Witness Disclosure..."
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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 2012 DOC BRK219 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Journal Article - Report of a Recent Brake Through in the Fiber Mesothelioma Dialogue Inhalation Toxicology 2012 24 136 137 '2012 Informa Healthcare USA Inc.
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