Asbestos Information Association/North America News & Notes (February 7, 1974)

AIA/NA News & Notes issue dated February 7, 1974, summarizing EPA, OSHA and press developments, including an AIA/NA letter to Time magazine, a Technical Committee meeting in Newark, and EPA statements on ingested asbestos. It encloses a January 28, 1974 letter from R. H. Mereness to Consumers Research and several press clippings on asbestos.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-2: AIA/NA News & Notes issue of February 7, 1974 with items on EPA, Time letter, Technical Committee meeting, EDF suit, Lake Superior water
• Pages 3-5: Letter dated 28 January 1974 from AIA/NA (R. H. Mereness) to the editor of Consumers Research responding to an article on asbestos
• Page 6: Time magazine article 'Death from Dust' (Jan. 28, 1974) on the Pittsburgh Corning plant in Tyler, Texas
• Page 7: Newspaper clipping on asbestos fibers in Lake Superior and Duluth drinking water
• Page 8: Table of asbestos production and shipments figures (largely illegible OCR)
• Page 9: Clippings on EPA asbestos demolition violations, building asbestos in California, and Dr. Mancuso's research for IAM members
• Page 10: Clippings on a talc/asbestiform mineral detection talk, NIOSH overview, and asbestos in liquor and food additives

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: EPA · IARC · Johns-Manville · OSHA · Pittsburgh Corning.

About this copy

This is document AIA-54 of the Asbestos Information Association documents, documents used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits, 10 pages. Production numbers 01-0205287 to 01-0205233.