Asbestos Information Association/North America 'News & Notes' (October 31, 1980), with Attached News Clippings

Issue of the AIA/NA newsletter 'News & Notes' dated October 31, 1980. It reports on the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment's cancer-risk project and the Doll and Peto estimates, a California fund for asbestos workers, indoor air pollution activity, and calls for international worker-protection standards. It also covers AIA/NA comments on an EPA recording and reporting proposal. Attached are newspaper and trade-press clippings on Steve McQueen's mesothelioma, criticism of a proposed lower asbestos exposure limit, a Consumer Product Safety Commission speech, and a Pyro-Magnetics asbestos treatment process. unreviewed

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• Pages 1-2: AIA/NA News & Notes, Oct. 31, 1980: OTA cancer-risk project and the Doll/Peto estimates; California law creating a fund for asbestos victims (page 2 prints upside down/mirrored)
• Pages 3-4: News & Notes: review of activities on indoor air pollution (GAO report, EPA school rule, NAS study); page 4 also covers an AIA/NA meeting notice (page 4 OCR garbled)
• Pages 5-6: News & Notes: legislators and union call for protection of workers in other countries; AIA/NA comments on the EPA proposal on recording and reporting adverse reactions to chemicals (page 6 OCR garbled)
• Pages 7-8: Attached news clippings: article on Steve McQueen's mesothelioma treatment; 'Suggested Change In Rule For Asbestos Criticized' (SEP 1980); page 8 appears to be the reverse side, with garbled OCR
• Pages 9-10: Attached clippings: CPSC chairman Richard Gross on hazards in household products; Pyro-Magnetics asbestos melting technique (Journal of Commerce); CHEMTECH April 1980; page 10 appears to be the reverse side, with garbled OCR

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From Asbestos Information Association/North America (publisher of the newsletter).

• Asbestos Information Association/North America (its organization)
• EPA (named)
• General Accounting Office (named)
• HEW (named)
• National Academy of Sciences (named)
• Office of Technology Assessment (named)
• U.S. Congress (named)
• University of Oxford (named)

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Pages on our site about what this document covers: EPA · Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated · Virginia Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage.

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This is document UC-2236 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 10 pages. Production numbers UCC 004582 to UCC 004591.