3 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 · 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 · 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…