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This year, EHS became part of a nationwide effort to ascertain the possible harmful effects of asbestos, a common insulating material. Diberardinis has led the University investigation of the problem, detective work which has taken him from the MCZ to William James Hall to the Law School's Harkness Commons and Langdell Hall to House dining halls to Mallinekrodt and Conant Laboratories...
...often happens, he says, that the libraries or research labs like the MCZ will receive a shipment of research specimens from a foreign land, and some unknown insects crawl out. The researchers worry that their books or supplies will be destroyed...
...like clothes moths or carpet beetles, to some of the most exotic. He has dealt with pests, such as Ornithonyssus bacoti, a tropical rat mite; Pollenia ruidis, a form of cluster fly; and a rare species of beetle larva that was found in a shipment of books at the MCZ...
Officials said that asbestos is being renovated in various parts of the building on an ad hoc basis. The MCZ project is the only ongoing, major asbestos renovation prompted by individual complaints...
...MCZ, display cabinets are being covered with a special paint that is designed to guard against effects of asbestos for about five years...