Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health List of Research Proposals Not Recommended for Support (1968)

A cover sheet headed "Proposals Processed by IOEH Not Recommended" and a two-page list of research proposals that the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health's Scientific Committee did not recommend for support. They include studies of ferruginous bodies in the lungs of people in Paris and elsewhere in France who were not exposed at work, Dr. Heinz Bohlig's survey of mesothelioma and occupational and environmental exposure in Hamburg, a study of lung disease in pulp and paper mill and shipyard workers in Halifax, Paul Gross's work on brake lining and brake drum dust, and two proposals from Dr. Irving Selikoff of Mount Sinai.

What it shows

The Institute was the research body set up by the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association to fund asbestos health studies. The list shows which outside proposals its scientific committee turned down, several of them about people exposed to asbestos outside the workplace and about brake dust.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

2-page document entitled "List of Proposals of Research Project Processed by IOEH but not Recommended for Support by Scientific Committee." Some research projects relate to the study of asbestos disease in the general population and in insulation workers. In 1966, the QAMA formed the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health (IOEH). The IOEH engage in scientific research in the asbestos-health area.

About this copy

This is document 661 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002301 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-002303.