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A magazine article by James T. Schirripa reporting on a five-year Industrial Hygienics, Inc. study of airborne asbestos fiber in over 100 general occupancy buildings. It says the study's time-to-tumor calculations found the cancer risk negligible and that disturbing or removing asbestos insulation raises the risk by a factor of 20. Page 3 also carries an advertisement for Monitor occupational health services. unreviewed
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- Author
- James T Schirripa (CIH, President, Board Chairman, Industrial Hygienics, Inc., Huntington, NY; Diplomate of American Industrial Hygiene Academy)
- Published by
- Occupational Health and Safety (magazine); author with Industrial Hygienics, Inc.
- Series
- Union Carbide documents, UC-1717
- Date
- July 1980
- Number
- Bates BRG 0757 to BRG 0759
- 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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James T Schirripa. "Evaluating the cancer risk of asbestos." Occupational Health and Safety:45-46, 1980.
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From James T Schirripa (CIH, President, Board Chairman, Industrial Hygienics, Inc., Huntington, NY; Diplomate of American Industrial Hygiene Academy).
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This is document UC-1717 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 3 pages. Production numbers BRG 0757 to BRG 0759.
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James T Schirripa (CIH, President, Board Chairman, Industrial Hygienics, Inc., Huntington, NY, Diplomate of American Industrial Hygiene Academy). “James T. Schirripa, "Evaluating the Cancer Risk of Asbestos," Occupational Health and Safety (July/August 1980).” July 1980. Union Carbide documents, UC-1717, Bates BRG 0757 to BRG 0759. Occupational Health and Safety (magazine); author with Industrial Hygienics, Inc. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-1717.
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