27 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 3, 1973
W. C. Thurber to K. S. Lane, J. L. Myers and P. J. Morgan on FDA Proposed Rulemaking on Asbestos Particles in Food and Drugs, with AIA Memo and Federal Register Notice (1973)
…memo from W. C. Thurber to three Union Carbide recipients forwarding an Asbestos Information Association memorandum of October 1, 1973 and the FDA's proposed rulemaking on asbestos particles in food and drugs. Thurber stated his…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 6, 1975
John J. Welsh, M.D., to W. C. Thurber on the AIA Draft Pamphlet 'Asbestos in Water', with the AIA Transmittal Memo and Draft (1975)
Letter from John J. Welsh, M.D., Union Carbide Medical Department, to W. C. Thurber, June 6, 1975, approving the pamphlet AIA memorandum from R. H. Mereness to F. J. Solon, Jr. and PR committee members…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1, 1973
Asbestos Information Association Memorandum to Members on FDA Proposed Rulemaking 'Asbestos Particles in Food and Drugs', with Federal Register Notice and Union Carbide Asbestos Correspondence (1973)
…Union Carbide Belgium N.V., to F. D. Dexter, September 13, 1967, enclosing Ian Sayers' report on an Asbestos Fiber Importers Committee meeting and asking about continued cooperation Handwritten notes summarizing the Sayers report on U…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 20, 1974
R. H. Mereness to AIA Members Transmitting Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's Answers to Thirteen Questions (1974)
A 20 May 1974 Asbestos Information Association memorandum to members enclosing a May 14, 1974 letter from Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai School of Medicine to R. H. Mereness. The letter answers 13 questions from the AIA board, covering the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 26, 1977
Hans Weill, M.D., to Wendell B. Alcorn, Jr., on the Medical Literature Linking Asbestos and Lung Cancer (1977)
…judgment of how strong the evidence for an asbestosis/lung cancer association would appear to medical practitioners, from "possible" to "probable" to "proven." The first copy bears a Union Carbide Metals Division received stamp (Nov. 30…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1976
Asbestos Information Association/North America File on the Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, Sept. 8-9, 1976 (1976)
…invitation and confirmation letters, advance programs, a Sept. 8 memo of program notes with speaker introductions for Union Carbide's William Thurber and others, and handwritten schedule notes. The conference covered asbestos dust monitoring, dust control…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · January 25, 1978
Asbestos Information Association Technical Committee Papers and Draft Letter Selling the Enterline Study (1978)
…H. B. Rhodes (Union Carbide) comments on the present status of the construction industry study being performed by Equitable Environmental Health, Inc. It is agreed that the Technical Committee will do no further work on a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 19, 1976
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Members on OSHA Retention of Exposure Monitoring Records, with Federal Register Notice (1976)
…Attached is the Federal Register notice of March 19, 1976, in which OSHA explains the amendment to 29 CFR 1910.1001(i)(1) following the D.C. Circuit's remand in Industrial Union Department v. Hodgson.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1, 1976
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to CPSC Chairman S. John Byington on the Petition to Ban Asbestos Patching Compounds (1976)
…the Consumer Product Safety Commission commenting on the July 15, 1976 petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Consumers Union to ban asbestos-containing patching compounds. The letter says the comments were prepared after consultation…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1976
R. H. Mereness to AIA Executive Committee Forwarding Affidavit in Shoup v. Johns-Manville et al. (1976)
A one-page memorandum from the Asbestos Information Association's Executive Director to its Executive Committee enclosing an affidavit in Shoup v. Johns-Manville et al. (Wayne County, Michigan), followed by pages of that affidavit. In the affidavit,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Compilation: S. Holmes Paper 20 on Asbestos Threshold Limit Values (Lyon, 1972) with Asbestos Information Association and Bureau of Mines Letters on Coal Mine Asbestos Standards (1972-1974)
Compilation of excerpts from S. Holmes's Paper 20 (Biological Effects of Asbestos conference, Lyon, October 1972) on the basis of the British chrysotile hygiene standard, followed by three letters about the proposed asbestos standard for coal mines.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 6, 1977
Asbestos Information Association/North America Statement on the NIOSH Document on Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Asbestos (1977)
A four-page statement from the Asbestos Information Association/North America responding to a December 1976 NIOSH document to OSHA on the health effects of occupational asbestos exposure. It disputed the case for lowering the 2 f/cc standard, said…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1976
Asbestos Information Association Response to OSHA on the Proposed Revision of the Asbestos Standard, 29 CFR 1910 (Excerpts), with 1979 AIA Labelling Correspondence (1976)
Excerpts from the asbestos industry's April 1976 submission to OSHA opposing the proposed lowering of the asbestos exposure standard from 2 fibers/cc to 0.5 fibers/cc. It includes a transmittal letter, the task force chairman's summary and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1983
Testimony of Hans Weill, M.D., for the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society on Public Responsibility in Asbestos-Related Diseases (1983)
Written testimony of Dr. Hans Weill before a U.S. House subcommittee on compensating workers with asbestos-related diseases. It criticizes tort litigation and state compensation systems, proposes national and regional expert panels, and attaches…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1981
Hans Weill, M.D., to John H. Marsh on the AIA Document on Diagnosis of Asbestosis (1981)
Letter from Dr. Hans Weill of Tulane University to John H. Marsh of Raybestos Manhattan stating that he reviewed the document on the diagnosis of asbestosis circulated to the Executive Committee of AIA. He wrote that he had no specific areas of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 28, 1974
Asbestos Information Association Letters to the Editors of Consumers Research (1974) and The Wall Street Journal (1972)
Two letters from the Asbestos Information Association. The first, dated 28 January 1974, answers a Consumers Research article on asbestos and says the general public is not at risk from ambient asbestos. The second, dated June 15, 1972, criticizes a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1978
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Executive Committee Forwarding Dr. Enterline's Editorial 'Asbestos and Cancer -- the International Lag' (1978)
One-page memorandum from the Asbestos Information Association's executive director telling the Executive Committee that Dr. Philip Enterline had submitted an editorial to the American Review of Respiratory Disease, based on a study he did for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 15, 1976
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to Participants on Task Force Status and Forwarding of Hans Weill, M.D., Comments on the Proposed OSHA Asbestos Standard, with Weill Statement (1976)
A cover memo from the Asbestos Information Association's executive director describes the schedule for the industry's comment package to OSHA on the proposed revision of the asbestos standard (comment deadline April 9) and forwards Dr. Hans Weill's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 20, 1974
R. H. Mereness to AIA Members forwarding Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's Answers to Thirteen Questions (1974)
A 20 May 1974 Asbestos Information Association memorandum to members enclosing Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's 14 May 1974 letter, which answers 13 questions put to him by the AIA board. The letter addresses crocidolite versus chrysotile hazard, fiber…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 1, 1974
R. H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association) to the Editor of Time on the 'Death from Dust' Article (1974)
Letter from the Asbestos Information Association's executive director to the editor of Time responding to the January 28 article "Death from Dust," which described conditions at an asbestos insulation plant in Tyler, Texas. The letter said the…