Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, 1969 Annual Report (1969)

The 16-page 1969 annual report of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America in Pittsburgh, marked as part of a deposition exhibit (No. 200A, April 29, 1981). It describes the Foundation's research, including a study of fibrous dusts, among them chrysotile asbestos, sponsored by Johns-Manville, Raybestos-Manhattan, PPG and others, and a Public Health Service study of chrysotile, amosite and crocidolite in rats and hamsters to find what in asbestos dust causes "fibrosis and cancer." It also has the board, committees, minutes of the members' meeting, a financial summary and the member list, which includes the Asbestos Textile Institute and the Asbestos Cement Products Association.

What it shows

A study of fibrous glass, sponsored by Certain-teed, Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning Fiberglas and PPG, reported the dust to be biologically "inert" in animals and found no evidence of harm in long-term workers. For the Foundation's earlier reports, see Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, 1966 Annual Report (1966) and Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, 1968 Annual Report (1968).