Occupational Health Study of the Asbestos Products Industry in the United States (1964)

Paper by the Public Health Service's coordinating committee for its asbestos products industry study, presented at the International Congress on Asbestosis in Caen, France, in May 1964. It describes the gaps in what was known about asbestosis and cancer in asbestos workers and lays out the Division of Occupational Health's planned long-term study of five product areas: textiles, asbestos-cement pipe, insulation, friction materials and asbestos-cement building materials. The plan called for cohorts of at least 2,500 workers each, followed for 20 to 30 years, with air sampling, chest X-rays and lung function tests. The file is complete: a cover, six pages of text and the references.