31 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Compilation of Asbestos Industry Health Publications, an AIA/NA Letter to Time, and Union Carbide Calidria Product Papers (1968-1974)
…Union Carbide Metals Division paper 'Grinding Calidria Asbestos Pellets,' initialed R.E.Byrne/bsn, dated 2/9/71 Reprint of Product Engineering article of October 21, 1968 on asbestos in plastics and adhesives, mentioning Union Carbide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 4, 1982
E. R. Homan to J.-P. Sicard Transmitting Selikoff's 'Household Risks with Inorganic Fibers' (1982)
Cover letter from Elton R. Homan to Jean-Paul Sicard dated October 4, 1982, sending an attached article that Dr. Greenspan of Bushy Run brought to his attention, with a reference to zeolites on pages 957, 958 and 960. The attachment is Irving J.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
A. M. Langer et al., Variation of Properties of Chrysotile Asbestos Subjected to Milling, Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health (1978)
…Environ. Health 4:173-188) reporting laboratory tests on Calidria RG-144 chrysotile, supplied by Union Carbide, that was impact-milled for 60 to 3600 seconds. The authors report that milling reduced fiber length and crystallinity…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 24, 1973
Irving J. Selikoff to David Rall on Examination of Facial Tissues for Added Chrysotile Asbestos (1973)
…letter reports no evidence of asbestos use in the products examined, notes earlier use by two companies for less than a year, and thanks asbestos industry groups and Johns-Manville's F. J. Solon for cooperation.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 10, 1975
Irving J. Selikoff to John L. Myers Thanking Union Carbide for a Sample of Surface-Modified Calidria RG-244 (1975)
…Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai to John L. Myers, Marketing Manager for Calidria Asbestos at Union Carbide, thanking him for a sample of the company's surface modified product, RG-244. Selikoff wrote that the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 7 No. 2: "Asbestos Disease Can Spread to Workers' Families" (1975)
Summer 1975 issue of a newsletter from the Mount Sinai insulation industry hygiene program. The lead article reports a study of 326 family contacts of former asbestos factory workers, 35% of whom had X-ray abnormalities, plus mesothelioma cases…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 21, 1972
Irving J. Selikoff to John L. Myers on Coalinga Pelletizing and Dust Exposure (1972)
Letter from Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai School of Medicine to Union Carbide's marketing manager John L. Myers. He said there had not been enough time to review the information Myers provided on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1970
I. J. Selikoff, 'Partnership for Prevention – The Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program,' Industrial Medicine and Surgery (1970)
Reprint of a 1970 journal article in which Dr. Irving J. Selikoff describes the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program, a cooperative effort of the insulators' union, Johns-Manville, Mount Sinai, and government. It reports mortality findings…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1972
E. C. Hammond and I. J. Selikoff, 'Relation of Cigarette Smoking to Risk of Death of Asbestos-Associated Disease among Insulation Workers in the United States' (IARC Scientific Publication No. 8) (1972)
…two cohorts of asbestos insulation workers, 370 men in the New York-New Jersey locals followed 1963-1971 and 17,800 men in the US and Canadian union followed 1967-1971, and analyzing deaths by smoking…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1964
Irving J. Selikoff to Carl W. Sickles Listing Head Table Guests at the Conference on the Biological Effects of Asbestos Dinner (1964)
Letter from Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai Hospital to the president of the asbestos workers' union, for publication in The Asbestos Worker, listing those seated at the head table at the October 20, 1964…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 8, 1968
Selikoff, Hammond and Churg, 'Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia' (JAMA, 1968)
Journal article reporting a follow-up study of 370 asbestos insulation workers from union locals in New York and Newark, observed from Jan 1, 1963 to April 30, 1967. It compares observed and expected deaths, including…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
American Chemical Society 'Men and Molecules' Radio Transcripts #424 and #425, 'The Case Against the Magic Mineral,' Parts I and II, Featuring Dr. Irving J. Selikoff
…Against the Magic Mineral, Part I' (Selikoff on asbestosis, cancer, mesothelioma, insulator study, asbestos bodies in autopsies) Transcript #425, 'The Case Against the Magic Mineral, Part II' (asbestos workers, smoking, union programs, dust control in construction)
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
American Chemical Society 'Men and Molecules' Radio Transcripts #424 and #425, 'The Case Against the Magic Mineral,' Parts I and II, with Dr. Irving J. Selikoff on Asbestos and Cancer
…lung cancer, mesothelioma, the insulation workers study, indirect exposure and asbestos bodies Transcript #425, 'The Case Against the Magic Mineral, Part II': asbestos use, smoking and lung cancer, union industrial hygiene programs, dust controls in construction
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
I. J. Selikoff, Disability Compensation for Asbestos-Associated Disease in the United States, Report to the U.S. Department of Labor (Summary section)
Cover page and summary of a report to the U.S. Department of Labor (Contract No. J-9-M-8-0165), distributed as a membership service by the American Mining Congress. The summary covers asbestos-associated diseases, the exposed worker population and…
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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 · April 8, 1968
Selikoff, Hammond and Churg, 'Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia,' JAMA (1968)
Journal article reporting a study of 370 asbestos insulation workers followed from January 1963 to April 1967, with deaths compared against expected figures by cause and by smoking habits. The authors reported high rates of bronchogenic carcinoma…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 25, 1978
I. J. Selikoff, R. Lilis and W. J. Nicholson, Asbestos Disease in United States Shipyards, with a Second Mount Sinai Conference Paper on Short-term Asbestos Exposure (1978)
Compilation of two papers presented at the New York Academy of Sciences conference on health hazards of asbestos exposure. The first, by Selikoff, Lilis and Nicholson, tabulates deaths among 440 U.S. shipyard insulation workers (1967-1977) against…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1982
H. Seidman, I. J. Selikoff and E. C. Hammond, Mortality of Brain Tumors Among Asbestos Insulation Workers in the United States and Canada (1982)
Journal article reporting deaths from brain tumors among a cohort of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 to 1979. It reports 24 brain tumor deaths by best evidence, compared with expected numbers,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1979
E. C. Hammond, I. J. Selikoff and H. Seidman, 'Asbestos Exposure, Cigarette Smoking and Death Rates,' Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1979)
Published journal article reporting a mortality study of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 through 1976. It compares their death rates by cause and smoking history with a control group from an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 7 No. 2: Asbestos Disease Can Spread to Workers' Families (1975)
Summer 1975 issue of a newsletter from the Mount Sinai Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program. It reports a study of 326 family contacts of former asbestos factory workers, a supplied-air respirator, a conference on occupational cancer, and…