22 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 26, 1985
Summary of Doll and Peto, 'Effects on Health of Exposure to Asbestos', with Critical Comments by Dr. K. Browne (1985)
A three-page typed summary of the Doll and Peto report on asbestos health effects, covering cancer types, fibre types, dose-response estimates for asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, and a table of predicted deaths among chrysotile textile…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 20, 1978
H. E. Vanherle to Sir Neville Stack, and Stack to J. H. Marsh, on Labeling Calidria Asbestos (1978)
…entitled "Labeling Request by European Distributor of Union Carbide Products." Vanherle states that the manufacturer (Calidria Asbestos, a subsidiary of Union Carbide Corp.) of asbestos-containing products which Grace Industrial Chemicals distributes now intends to put…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 3, 1982
John H. Marsh (Raybestos-Manhattan) to Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn Enclosing Kevin Browne's Draft Review of Lung Fibre Burdens and the AIA Memorandum (1982)
A cover letter from John H. Marsh of Raybestos-Manhattan to Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn of Perkin-Elmer encloses a draft literature review by Kevin Browne on lung fibre burdens. It is followed by a 25 February 1982 Asbestos International Association…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 6, 1981
Sir Neville Stack to Chairman and Members of MAP and Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn on Draft Criteria for the Diagnosis of Asbestosis and Attribution of Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma (1981)
Memorandum from the Director-General of the Asbestos International Association transmitting the latest draft of a paper on criteria for diagnosing asbestosis and attributing lung cancer and mesothelioma to asbestos exposure. It describes amendments…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 11, 1985
Asbestos International Association Memo Circulating Gross Brake Dust Abstract, with Lewinsohn, Meigs and Teta Drafts on Connecticut Mesothelioma (1985)
The exhibit opens with an Asbestos International Association memorandum dated 11 September 1985. In it the Director General circulated the abstract of a paper by Dr. Paul Gross on asbestos-related disease from brake dust and said the paper had just…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 11, 1979
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to Member Associations on the HEW "Estimates" Paper on Occupational Cancer, with Related Attachments (1979)
A two-page memorandum from Sir Neville Stack to AIA member associations and the executive committee. It gives "over-simplified" background comments criticizing the HEW paper "Estimates of the Fraction of Cancer in United States Related to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1984
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to Dr. K. Browne, Cape Industries, on Asbestos and Health Questions, with 10 August 1984 Cover Slip to Medical Advisory Panel (1984)
A 10 August 1984 'With Compliments' slip from the Asbestos International Association to its Medical Advisory Panel forwards a 10 July 1984 letter from Sir Neville Stack to Dr. K. Browne of Cape Industries. The letter proposes listing common…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 2, 1984
Sir Neville Stack to AIA Medical Advisory Panel Circulating Comments on the Medical Surveillance of Asbestos Workers (1984)
A cover memorandum from the Asbestos International Association's Director General to its Medical Advisory Panel, enclosing two items: comments by Dr. T. R. P. Goffe of Turner & Newall on the draft AIA Information Memorandum No. 3/83 on medical…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 10, 1979
W. J. Smither to Sir Neville Stack, Transmitting Dr. Kevin Browne's Synopsis of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Report, with AIA Cover Slip (1979)
The exhibit has three copies of the same eight-page set. Each set has an Asbestos International Association 'With Compliments' slip dated 10 December 1979, a 5 December 1979 letter from Dr. W.J. Smither to Sir Neville Stack, and a six-page synopsis…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1985
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to Executive Committee on 'Statements and Comments' with Dr. Kevin Browne's Views (1985)
Memorandum from the Asbestos International Association's Director General forwarding Dr. Kevin Browne's comments on nine 'Statements and Comments' about asbestos health claims, with the statements and comments (dated 7 February 1985) attached. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 30, 1979
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to W. D. Kelley (ACGIH) Transmitting R. Gaze's Commentary on Proposed Crocidolite and Amosite TLVs (1979)
Letter from the Asbestos International Association's Director-General to the ACGIH asking that its proposed threshold limit values for crocidolite and amosite be modified, with an attached commentary by Dr. Richard Gaze. The commentary argues that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1981
Sir Neville Stack to AIA Medical Advisory Panel Transmitting Criteria for the Diagnosis of Asbestosis, Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma, with AIA Memorandum No. 2/81 (1981)
A cover memorandum from the Director-General of the Asbestos International Association to its Medical Advisory Panel forwarding an amended "Criteria" paper, followed by the six-page paper (AIA Memorandum No. 2/81). The paper sets out criteria for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 23, 1979
Sir Neville Stack to AIA Executive Committee Members on Draft Recommended Control Procedure No. 3, Asbestos Waste Materials (1979)
Memorandum from Sir Neville Stack to the AIA Executive Committee describing the drafting history of an AIA publication on asbestos waste disposal in light of an EEC directive, and asking members to approve or amend the six-page draft by 25 June. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 6, 1984
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to Medical Advisory Panel, Transmitting 'Answers to Difficult Questions' (1984)
A one-page memorandum from the Director General of the Asbestos International Association to its Medical Advisory Panel, attaching a 1979 paper, 'Answers to Difficult Questions', for use in considering Annex B to the minutes of the panel's 12th…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 25, 1984
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to Göran Truedson on Pleural Plaques and Compensation in Sweden, with Truedson's Letter of 8 March 1984 (1984)
Two letters. On 8 March 1984 Göran Truedson of Svenska Bromsbandsfabriken AB told Sir Neville Stack that a Swedish medical investigation committee had been set up and that a 10,000 SEK lump sum would be paid for asbestos-related pleural plaques…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 25, 1985
Asbestos International Association Memorandum to Member Associations on the Doll/Peto Report, with Press Releases and Press Conference Comment (1985)
A memorandum from the Asbestos International Association's Director General to member associations announced the 24 April 1985 publication of the Doll/Peto report on the health effects of asbestos exposure and enclosed three items. The enclosures…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1979
Asbestos International Association Circulars on Asbestos, Smoking and Lung Cancer and the UK Advisory Committee on Asbestos Evidence (1979)
Compilation of Asbestos International Association (AIA) circulars from July to December 1979. It contains a memorandum forwarding a Cape Industries paper on asbestos, smoking and lung cancer, and a 1 September 1979 New York Times article on a US…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 7, 1984
Asbestos International Association Cover Note to Medical Advisory Panel Forwarding Kevin Browne's Comments on Goldsmith's Israel Asbestos Paper (1984)
A one-page Asbestos International Association cover note dated 7 August 1984 sends the Medical Advisory Panel a copy of Dr. K. Browne's comments on John R. Goldsmith's paper on asbestos health hazards for Israel. The attached Cape Industries…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 7, 1984
Sir Neville Stack to AIA Advisory Panels on Tremolite in Chrysotile, with Meeting Notes and A. A. Hodgson Paper (1984)
A memorandum from the Director General of the Asbestos International Association forwarding, for information, notes on a 22 November 1984 meeting with Asbestosis Research Council doctors and a paper by Dr. A. A. Hodgson on tremolite in chrysotile.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 31, 1980
Asbestos International Association Director-General's Notes for Associations on Panel Activities, EEC Matters and Regulation (1980)
AIA memorandum AIA/41/NEWS from the Director-General to member associations summarizing the period July 1979 to July 1980. It covers the activities of the AIA advisory panels, EEC directives, labelling, conferences, a proposed low-dose and…