The Public Health Service ran the federal government's early industrial hygiene studies, including the 1930s surveys of asbestos workers that led to the first recommended dust limit for asbestos.
Reports in the Library
- 1930Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards
- 1935Lanza, McConnell and Fehnel, "Effects of the Inhalation of Asbestos Dust on the Lungs of Asbestos Workers"
- 1938Dreessen and Others, A Study of Asbestosis in the Asbestos Textile Industry
- 1958W. Clark Cooper and Lewis J. Cralley, Pneumoconiosis in Diatomite Mining and Processing
- 1964Occupational Health Study of the Asbestos Products Industry in the United States
- 1994Seventh Annual Report on Carcinogens: Summary
- 2000Ninth Report on Carcinogens