6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Chrysotile biopersistence in the lungs of persons in the general population and exposed workers
…form, with both fibers and fibrils > 5 microns in length. Comparison of the lung fiber content of occupationally exposed persons with that of the general population showed marked qualitative and quantitative differences. Fibers are durable…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Chemical characterization of asbestos body cores by electron microprobe analysis
…show no marked chemical degradation even after prolonged biologic residence, whereas chrysotile asbestos cores are markedly degraded. Cores of asbestos bodies from the general population, from individuals with no known exposure, may consist of degraded chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Rapporteur's Report Session 6: risk assessment of asbestos and other fibrous mineral particulates
…mesothelioma reported that 2 of 2907 deaths in taconite worker cohorts (0.07%) were from mesothelioma, compared with 0.17% of deaths among US males in the general population. The rapporteurs compared two studies of Libby…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
The subject of continuous vigilance
…has brought with it concomitant and widespread contamination of the environment. The need to control asbestos is required in the forms of legislation and surveillance, to prevent the spread of asbestos disease into the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Chrysotile asbestos: effects of human exposure
…exonerated the quarry's crushed rock as a carcinogen, and his claim that these workers' general health was comparable to that of Quebec Province as a whole. They noted that latent periods for asbestos-related malignancy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Significance of aspect ration in regulation of asbestos fiber exposure
…use the term asbestos only when the source or megascopic characteristics are known; otherwise describe fibers as indistinguishable from asbestos or use general mineralogical terms. (3) study the chemical, physical and crystallographic properties of asbestiform fibers…