3 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Measurement of asbestos dust levels in British asbestos factories in the 1930s
…which treated the average dust level of spinners as a "dust datum." Those data came from 51 samples in eight factories, taken with an Owens Jet Counter, which could not tell asbestos fibers from other particles…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Malignant pleural mesothelioma in bakers and pastry cooks
… 222 cases). Field-investigations revealed asbestos-containing material (ACM) in ovens for baking bread, that were manufactured prior to the 1980s. It is suggested that there is a possible new association of the risk of having…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Difficulties of attribution of effect in workers exposed to fiberglass and asbestos
…0.46) was also elevated. Although only 78% of fiberglass production workers gave histories of asbestos exposure, all had shared the air in a manufacturing plant where ovens insulated with asbestos were continuously cleaned, repaired, dismantled…