Asbestos Information Association, Asbestos and Health: Questions & Answers (1975)

A one-page printed card, "Asbestos and Health: Questions & Answers," which the index attributes to the Asbestos Information Association. It said that "erroneous and misleading impressions" about asbestos had come from applying data on heavy occupational exposure to the general public, and listed three "known medical facts": that asbestos health risks "are basically confined to the occupational and para-occupational setting," that disease develops generally "only after the inhalation of substantial amounts of asbestos dust for a substantial period of time," and that there was no evidence of hazard to the public from asbestos in community air. Its answers said that "low to moderate levels" of exposure did not lead to more disease.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

AIA information card entitled "Asbestos and Health-Questions and Answers," undated. The following facts are stated on the card: 1) Asbestos-related health risks are basically confined to the occupational and para-occupational setting. 2) Asbestos-related diseases may develop, generally, only after the inhalation of substantial amounts of asbestos dust for a substantial period of time. 3) There is presently no evidence of hazard to the general public from exposure to the minute amounts of asbestos that may be present in community air.

Related documents

• W. A. Cooper to Dr. Paul Kotin on the History of J-M's Employee Education About Asbestos (1977)

About this copy

This is document 840 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-004545 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-004545.