19 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Short fiber tremolite free chrysotile mesothelioma cohort revealed
In 1995, Dell and Teta published a cohort mortality study of asbestos molding compound workers at a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plastics manufacturing plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. They reported that the factory workers were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Re: Controlled use of asbestos
…authors argued that controlled use was the latest in a series of corporate misrepresentations of asbestos risk. They examined Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) claims that Calidria, a chrysotile mined from the Coalinga deposit in California…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Chrysotile biopersistence: the misuse of biased studies
…mesothelioma, and non-malignant lung and pleural disorders, manufacturers and some chrysotile miners' unions contend that chrysotile either does not cause disease or that there is insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. At the same time…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Mineral phases and some reexamined characteristics of the International Union Against Cancer standard asbestos samples
Standard asbestos samples to be used for biomedical research were first prepared by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1966 in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Using modern techniques, X-ray diffractometry, analytical transmission…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Asbestos production increases despite WHO opposition
…asbestos production had not declined despite national bans and World Health Organization (WHO) opposition. It stated that more than 40 countries, including all European Union members, had banned chrysotile (white asbestos), the only form still mined…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Man-made respirable-sized organic fibers: what do we know about their toxicological profiles?
…are identified and some fundamental tenets of fiber toxicology are discussed. In addition, the European Union, in their recent consideration for banning chrysotile asbestos fibers, evaluated some organic fiber substitutes and compared them to the hazards…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases and asbestos types used in the former GDR
…insulation and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. Chrysotile was predominantly imported from the former Soviet Union, partly from Canada. Very small amounts of amphiboles came from Mozambique, but they were not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
The Tale of Asbestos in Sweden 1972-1986-The Pathway to a Near-Total Ban
…extensive charting of asbestos sources on a tripartite basis, involving government agencies, and employer and trade-union organizations. Restrictive asbestos management practices were enforced from July 1982. The year 1985 saw the Government Asbestos Commission review…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Exporting death made in Quebec
…public health tragedy for Canada and the rest of the world. The author stated that over 40 countries, including the European Union, had banned chrysotile. The author also stated that Quebec's chrysotile went mostly to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Use of asbestos, health risks and induced occupational diseases in the former East Germany
…and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. The asbestos was imported from the former Soviet Union, smaller amounts came from Canada. In the German Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, approximately 600 asbestoses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Relative risk of mesothelioma among railroad machinists exposed to chrysotile
…1945, the author followed the 181 machinists hired from 1920 to 1929 through 1986. Deaths were identified from union death claim records. The author concluded from historical sources that the boiler lagging was almost exclusively, if…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Re: Paradis G. Ban all production and export of chrysotile asbestos [Editor's Page]. Can J Public Health 2010;101(5):352
…Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Medical Association for aligning with United Nations agencies and the European Union in calling for the elimination of asbestos use and export. The author argued…
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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 · 2001
Asbestos poisons World Trade Organization atmosphere
…September 2000, a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel published its findings in the dispute between Canada and the European Union/France over France's ban on the import and use of chrysotile (white asbestos). The panel…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Comparative hazards of chrysotile asbestos and its substitutes: A European perspective
…asbestos cement and friction linings in vehicle brakes and clutches. A ban on chrysotile throughout the European Union for these remaining applications is currently under consideration, but this requires confidence in the safety of substitute materials…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Malignant transformation of immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells by asbestos fibers
…these BEP2D cells after a single, 7-day treatment with a 20-microgram/ml (4 micrograms per cm2 area) dose of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) Rhodesian chrysotile fibers. Asbestos treatment resulted in a surviving…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Soil fungi reduce the iron content and the DNA damaging effects of asbestos fibers
…the surface reactivity of asbestos fibers. One sample of chrysotile from the Western Alps and a sample of UICC (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer) crocidolite were incubated with or without fungi. All fungi extracted iron from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) and its influence on international organizations
…particularly in regard to asbestos and other fibers and some chemicals and pesticides. Many ICOH members are employees of corporations or consultants to industry, serving multinational corporate interests to influence public health policy in the guise…