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Niagara Falls Gazette (AP): 'Million deaths by 2,000 seen caused by asbestos' on Dr. Irving Selikoff's Senate Testimony (1973)

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Newspaper clipping reporting that Dr. Irving Selikoff of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine told a Senate Commerce environmental subcommittee that about one million Americans would die by 2000 of asbestos-related diseases. The article also reports on consumer products containing asbestos, FDA actions on asbestos, and testimony supporting a toxic-substances control bill. unreviewed

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Associated Press (wire service dateline; no individual byline shown)
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Niagara Falls Gazette
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-4506
Date
February 24, 1973
Number
Bates A07100 to X401166
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Associated Press. "Million deaths by 2,000 seen caused by asbestos." Niagara Falls Gazette, 1973.

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This is document UC-4506 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 2 pages. Production numbers A07100 to X401166.

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Associated Press (wire service dateline, no individual byline shown). “Niagara Falls Gazette (AP): 'Million deaths by 2,000 seen caused by asbestos' on Dr. Irving Selikoff's Senate Testimony.” February 24, 1973. Union Carbide documents, UC-4506, Bates A07100 to X401166. Niagara Falls Gazette. AsbestosClaims.Law Library. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/union-carbide-exhibits/uc-4506.

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