19 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1976
I. J. Selikoff, 'Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974' (1976)
Reprint of a journal article reporting a 1963-1974 prospective medical surveillance of 1,249 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers. It presents tables of expected and observed deaths from lung cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis and other…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1975
I. J. Selikoff, 'Air Pollution and Asbestos Carcinogenesis: Investigation of Possible Synergism,' IARC Scientific Publication No. 16 (1975)
Published paper by I. J. Selikoff on a study of asbestos insulation workers that examines whether urban air pollution adds to the lung cancer risk from asbestos and cigarette smoking. It summarizes earlier mortality studies of insulation workers,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
Naseem, Tishler, Anderson and Selikoff, 'Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylase in Asbestos Workers,' American Review of Respiratory Disease (1978)
Journal article reporting a study of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity and inducibility in lymphoblasts from 47 asbestos workers and 31 control subjects. The authors reported greater mean AHH inducibility in the exposed group and discussed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1976
I. J. Selikoff, Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974 (1976)
Journal article by Irving J. Selikoff reporting mortality and clinical surveillance findings for New York-area asbestos insulation workers followed from 1963 to 1974. It reports deaths from lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis, and describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1971
I. J. Selikoff, E. C. Hammond and J. Churg, Neoplasia Risk Associated with Occupational Exposure to Airborne Inorganic Fibers (1971)
Reprint of a 1971 conference paper on cancer risk from airborne inorganic fibers. It reviews neoplasms associated with asbestos and other mineral fibers and tabulates deaths among 632 New York-New Jersey insulation workers, including 916 consecutive…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 3, 1979
Selikoff and Hammond, 'Asbestos and Smoking,' JAMA Editorial (1979)
A JAMA editorial by Selikoff and Hammond on the interaction of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking in lung cancer and asbestosis mortality among asbestos insulation workers. It recommends that exposed workers not smoke and receive periodic…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 15, 1975
Rohl, Langer, Selikoff and Nicholson, 'Exposure to Asbestos in the Use of Consumer Spackling, Patching, and Taping Compounds,' Science (1975)
Article from Science reporting analysis of 15 consumer spackling and patching compounds bought in the New York City area, plus industrial drywall taping compounds, for asbestos and other minerals. It also reports airborne fiber measurements during…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1971
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff to J. B. Jobe Asking for Data on Manville Plant Workers (1971)
…was reflected by inadequate control measures, will plague us for some years." He offers assurances: "It is not our intention that your cooperation hurt you," the data would be for research only, individuals' information would stay…