21 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Health hazards of asbestos exposure
This conference paper followed asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada. It analyzed 12,051 men who reached 20 or more years since entering the trade: 77,391 man-years and 1,946…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Surface charge and hemolytic activity of asbestos
…represented by zeta potential, and hemolytic activity were measured for the five asbestos reference samples of the International Union against Cancer (UICC). Zeta potentials in distilled water at pH 7.4 for chrysotiles A and B…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Mortality experience of insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1943--1976
…New Jersey union locals on January 1, 1943, followed to December 31, 1976, plus 833 men who joined these locals in 1943-1962. The other comprised all 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Effect of asbestos on lipid peroxidation in the red cells
In vitro exposure of red cells to vie International Union against Cancer (UICC) standard reference asbestos samples resulted in an increase of thiobarbituric acid substances. Chrysotiles developed the largest amounts of lipid peroxides, followed by anthophyllite…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
The organic content of international reference samples of asbestos
This laboratory chemical analysis examined the oily organic material on five reference asbestos samples supplied by the Union International Contre le Cancer (U.I.C.C.): anthophyllite, amosite, Rhodesian chrysotile ("Chrysotile A"), crocidolite and Canadian chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Based on available data, can we project an acceptable standard for industrial use of asbestos? Perhaps
This was not a research study but a commentary by the author, of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, on whether an acceptable standard for industrial asbestos exposure could be set. It reported no new data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Lung cancer and mesothelioma during prospective surveillance of 1249 asbestos insulation workers, 1963-1974
…for 1249 union asbestos insulation workers in the New York metropolitan area, followed from January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1974. They were 370 older men who were already union members by 1942 and 879 younger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
A labor-management occupational health service in a construction industry
…13 western US states, run jointly by their union and contractors. It was a program description rather than a new study. The region had about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions. Citing their own…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Surface charge and asbestos toxicity
…to their ability to burst red blood cells (haemolytic activity). They tested two reference samples of the International Union against Cancer: chrysotile A and the amphibole crocidolite. The fibres were soaked (leached) in Tyrode's solution…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…turnover. About one in 500 private-shipyard workers was an "asbestos worker," but other trades also had opportunity for exposure. They followed 440 insulation workers in nine shipyard union locals from 1967 through 1976. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos Exposure Of Brake Repair Workers In The United States
…particles had the features of fosterite, a heat-altered form of chrysotile. Second, the authors examined 104 union vehicle maintenance workers who volunteered, and analyzed 90 with over 10 years' work. Of these 90, 24 (27%)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancer
…had one bronchogenic carcinoma death. The 283 cigarette smokers had 41 against 3.3 expected. Among 17,800 union insulation workers in the United States and Canada, followed from 1967 to 1971, colon and rectal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
In 1964 the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer (UICC) set up a working group on asbestos and cancer and later issued a Report and Recommendations (1965). A further meeting was held at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos exposure, cigarette smoking and death rates
…effects of cigarette smoking and occupational asbestos exposure on death rates. Members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada answered smoking questionnaires in 1966, and 17,800 men alive on January 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Some observations on the distribution of trace metals in chrysotile asbestos
…scandium in a number of samples of chrysotile asbestos, including the standard reference samples prepared under the auspices of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) was investigated. The composition of material separated magnetically from chrysotile was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
…expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies sponsored by the International Union Against Cancer and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A large survey of Quebec chrysotile miners showed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Industrial hygiene and occupational health studies in Australian (New South Wales) shipyards
…noise, asbestos and solvents. In welding investigations, done mainly at the request of union representatives, four were judged hazardous. Total fume in the breathing zone frequently exceeded 15 mg/m3 when men welded over coated surfaces…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Hemolysis by asbestos
…and which chemical agents prevent it. Fourteen mineral dusts and fibers were tested, including Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (U.I.C.C.) standard reference asbestos samples. In the standard test, 50 mg of mineral was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Greater public awareness of health hazards of asbestos exposure
…1,500 adults 8 questions. The surveys bracketed a public awareness campaign about the dangers of asbestos exposure that federal departments, labor unions and employers launched in August 1978 through television, radio, magazine advertisements and other…