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Compilation of Asbestos Industry Health Publications, an AIA/NA Letter to Time, and Union Carbide Calidria Product Papers (1968-1974)

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Plaintiff's exhibit UC-167 is a 20-page set of separate items. It contains an asbestos-industry booklet on protecting the asbestos worker, a reprinted 1970 Selikoff article on the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program, and an Asbestos Information Association description and letter to Time (1 February 1974). It also has a December 1973 Chemical & Engineering News article on asbestos health questions, a 1971 Union Carbide Metals Division paper on grinding Calidria asbestos pellets, and a 1968 Product Engineering article on asbestos in plastics and adhesives that mentions Union Carbide's California asbestos. unreviewed

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Author
Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (Director, Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program; Director, Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine); H. Mereness (Executive Director, Asbestos Information Association); R.E.Byrne (Author or typist initials on the Calidria pellet grinding paper (Union Carbide Metals Division))
Published by
Mixed sources: Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division; Asbestos Information Association/North America; reprints of published articles
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-167
Number
Bates A08051 to A07936
Rights
A published article used as a document in asbestos litigation. Its copyright is not ours, so we describe it and link to it rather than host it.

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Irving J. Selikoff, M.D., H. Mereness, R.E.Byrne. "Compilation of Asbestos Industry Health Publications, an AIA/NA Letter to Time, and Union Carbide Calidria Product Papers (1968-1974)."

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What the document holds

  • Page 1: Exhibit cover sheet bearing the Plaintiff's Exhibit UC-167 sticker; the page is otherwise dark/blank
  • Pages 2-5: Booklet text 'Protecting The Asbestos Worker' (stamped A08051 onward) on asbestos dust levels, TLVs, OSHA regulations and industry commitment; pages are rotated or upside down and the OCR is garbled
  • Page 6: Reprint cover: Irving J. Selikoff, 'Partnership for Prevention - The Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program,' reprinted from Industrial Medicine and Surgery
  • Pages 7-11: Selikoff article text, Industrial Medicine, April 1970, on the insulation workers' hygiene research program, mortality among insulation workers, and dust control methods
  • Page 12: Blank page
  • Pages 13-14: Description of the Asbestos Information Association/North America (AIA/NA), its member companies and activities; pages are upside down and the OCR is garbled
  • Page 15: Letter dated 1 February 1974 from the Asbestos Information Association (H. Mereness) to the editor of Time about the 'Death from Dust' article
  • Pages 16-17: Chemical & Engineering News article of Dec. 10, 1973 reporting on an international conference on the biological effects of ingested asbestos
  • Pages 18-19: Union Carbide Metals Division paper 'Grinding Calidria Asbestos Pellets,' initialed R.E.Byrne/bsn, dated 2/9/71
  • Page 20: Reprint of Product Engineering article of October 21, 1968 on asbestos in plastics and adhesives, mentioning Union Carbide's California resin-grade chrysotile

People and organizations

From Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (Director, Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program; Director, Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine); H. Mereness (Executive Director, Asbestos Information Association); R.E.Byrne (Author or typist initials on the Calidria pellet grinding paper (Union Carbide Metals Division)).

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Calidria · OSHA.

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This is document UC-167 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 20 pages. Production numbers A08051 to A07936.

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Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. (Director, Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program, Director, Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine), H. Mereness (Executive Director, Asbestos Information Association), R.E.Byrne (Author or typist initials on the Calidria pellet grinding paper (Union Carbide Metals Division)). “Compilation of Asbestos Industry Health Publications, an AIA/NA Letter to Time, and Union Carbide Calidria Product Papers (1968-1974).” Union Carbide documents, UC-167, Bates A08051 to A07936. Mixed sources: Union Carbide Corporation, Metals Division; Asbestos Information Association/North America; reprints of published articles. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-0167.

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