2 results for “General Electric”
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Government report · WARD Documents · April 2, 1976
June Thompson to Francine Schacter on Extending the CPSC Asbestos Ban to Other Consumer Products (1976)
…firms making the product and thought "additional firms" were involved. The tabs cover other complaints about asbestos products, the earlier ban on asbestos in general-use garments, definitions and properties of asbestos, the agency's authority…
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Government report · WARD Documents · 1973
National Heart and Lung Institute, The Dust Inhalation Diseases (1973)
…leading factor in the death of over 2,000 people in the United States each year," and that asbestos workers who smoke have a lung cancer rate "eight times higher than smokers in the general population."