263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 10 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos dispatches
…use, industry promotion in India, and Canada's role in blocking international listing of chrysotile. It reported national bans in 13 of 15 European Union states and in Australia, and a Japanese order, effective October 2004…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Translating evidence about occupational conditions into strategies for prevention
…presented the process as three linked boxes: sources of evidence (toxicology, epidemiology, occupational medicine, occupational hygiene, unions and workers), scientific, social and economic influencing factors, and prevention strategies. Eight case studies illustrated the process: vinyl chloride…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos diseases and compensation
…was reasonably secure and to encourage eligible patients to claim benefit. Patients considering legal action should be referred to a trade union or solicitor rather than told to sue. Patients with pleural plaques should be reassured…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Malignant mesothelioma
…the late 1950s, after he arrived in Australia. The Electrical Trades Union prepared a workers' compensation claim and argued that the statute of limitations should be waived on humanitarian grounds. The claim succeeded, with a settlement…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Comparative toxicities of different forms of asbestos in a cell culture assay
Three forms of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) asbestos, amosite, crocidolite, and chrysotile, were assayed for their cytotoxicity (inhibition of colony formation) in cell culture. Using embryonic human intestine-derived (I-407) and adult rat…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Exposure of UK industrial plumbers to asbestos, Part II: Awareness and responses of plumbers to working with asbestos during a survey in parallel with personal sampling
Throughout the European Union, millions tonnes of asbestos were used in the manufacture of products for building and for industrial installations. Today, in the UK, it is estimated that over half a million non-domestic premises…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Iron topochemistry and surface reactivity of amphibole asbestos: relations with in vitro toxicity
Chemical reactivity of asbestos tremolite from Italy and USA localities and Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) crocidolite was studied in relation to Fe content, oxidation state, and structural coordination. Direct correlation between amount of Fe…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos in the hamster lung
The physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos (Union International Contre le Cancer standard samples) in the hamster lung and in vitro following acid treatments were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x…
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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 · 1985
Kinetics of deposition and clearance of inhaled mineral dusts during chronic exposure
New inhalation studies have been carried out with rats exposed to UICC (Union International Contre le Cancer) amosite asbestos, with the main aim of further elucidating the factors the influence the accumulation of dust in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Nitric oxide (NO) synthase activity in the lung and NO synthesis in alveolar macrophages of rats increased on exposure to asbestos
We examined whether the lung of rats induced nitric oxide synthase (NOS) on instillation of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) asbestos into the trachea, and whether alveolar macrophages (M phi s) of rats increased synthesis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Predictions of mortality from pleural mesothelioma in Italy: a model based on asbestos consumption figures supports results from age-period-cohort models
Italy was the second main asbestos producer in Europe, after the Soviet Union, until the end of the 1980s, and raw asbestos was imported on a large scale until 1992. The Italian pattern of asbestos consumption…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Proportionate mortality among unionized construction ironworkers
This report presents the results of proportionate mortality ratios (PMR) and proportionate cancer mortality ratios (PCMR) among 13,301 members of the International Union of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Ironworkers who had been members for a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
The formation of asbestos bodies by mouse peritoneal macrophages. An in vitro study
For studies on the mechanism of asbestos body formation, Union Internationale Contre Cancer (UICC) crocidolite asbestos fibers were added to a culture of mouse peritoneal macrophages. Small asbestos fibers were totally ingested by the macrophages, but…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Asbestos-related health risks in Estonia
…Cancer of the World Health Organization. Since 1983, the European Union has enforced health protection directions in this field, which have been the basis for legal acts of Member States. The Estonian Republic is a country…
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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 · 2008
Mesothelioma and environmental exposure
…mesothelial cells to crocidolite and chrysotile asbestos fibers. Chemically pure and pretreated Union Internationale Centre le Cancer (UICC) samples were implanted into a peritoneal envelope (Kertai's fold) of Wistar rats. Following the 12-month exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Port Allegany Asbestos Health Program: a community response to a public health problem
The Port Allegany Asbestos Health Program (PAAHP) is a unique, community-run program that resulted from the successful cooperative efforts of a labor union, a corporation, community health care providers, and a medical school. PAAHP's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
ILO to promote global asbestos ban
…s biggest ever industrial killer. The landmark decision came with the adoption of a resolution on 14 June 2006 at the ILO conference in Geneva and followed a high level union campaign. Rory O'Neill asked…
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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…