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Printout of the asbestos fact sheet on EPA's Technology Transfer Network Air Toxics Website, based mainly on EPA's IRIS file and the ATSDR toxicological profile. It summarizes uses, sources of exposure in outdoor and indoor air and water, and health effects: asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma and possible gastrointestinal cancers. It also notes the greater lung cancer risk for smokers exposed to asbestos. It gives EPA's Group A (known human carcinogen) classification and inhalation unit risk, with air levels tied to one-in-a-million to one-in-ten-thousand cancer risks. It defines the ACGIH, NIOSH and OSHA exposure limits and lists references.
- Published by
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Date
- 2000
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 21586 · asbestosclaims.law/library/21586
- Rights
- US government work, in the public domain.
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“Asbestos: Hazard Summary.” 2000. US Environmental Protection Agency. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 21586. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/21586.
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