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Inevitable Exposure. Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, director of the environmental-sciences laboratory of Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, favors no exposure at all but believes that OSHA's ruling is feasible. "Industrial-hygiene engineers cannot guarantee that there will not be leaks," he says. "The 1-p.p.m. standard recognizes the inevitability of some exposure. It is logical, realistic and scientific...
...Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Environmental Health has suggested that the persistence of the fiber once it comes into contact with lung tissue may result not only in asbestosis but in other sarcomas and cancers besides mesothelioma. Selikoff, the leading authority in this area of asbestos research, subsequently examined mortality figures for 18,000 American and Canadian asbestos workers. He found that the death rate among them from lung cancer was six times that found in the general population. Deaths from gastro-intestinal cancer or cancer of the esophagus were respectively four and six times more...
...Selikoff's work has attracted the interest of labor unions, which have begun to demand large-scale control of asbestos contamination. At the same time a federal agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has set a limit of five fibers per cubic centimeter of air that will be reduced further to two fibers in 1976. The regulation is forcing some smaller industries to close down their asbestos-incorporating operations, while others are coming slowly into compliance with federal and state regulations. But control is no easy matter. More than one million tons of the mineral are imported into...
Their deaths should come as no sur prise to either company or Government officials. Doctors have long suspected that asbestos dust is hazardous; there has been ample documentation of increased incidence of lung disease and cancers among people exposed to the mineral. As early as 1961, Dr. Irving Selikoff, 59, of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, and Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, 61, of the American Cancer Society, confirmed the deadly relationship in studies of workers at a Paterson, N.J., asbestos plant. They documented their work in scientific papers and meetings. They also showed that even small quantities...
After the work by Selikoff and others, P.C.C. officials ordered a study of the asbestos-dust hazard at Tyler in 1963. The report seriously underestimated the hazard. A 1966 dust survey found asbestos levels above recommended thresholds in many areas of the plant, and a 1967 survey by the U.S. Public Health Service's Division of Occupational Health confirmed that the levels were high, but did not warn of the health hazard. After a Labor Department study two years later reported the same conditions, respirators were issued to workers in the plant's dustiest areas. But, according...