3 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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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 · 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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
…expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies sponsored by the International Union Against Cancer and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A large survey of Quebec chrysotile miners showed…