Asbestos Manufacturing
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Asbestos is a mineral fiber that has many uses. It can still be found in many types of building materials and insulation products, as well as in chemical filters and brake linings. The actual fiber is so small that it can only be positively identified with a special type of microscope. Unfortuna ....
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.... in this year that the British first documented the occupational hazards of asbestos dust inhalation. In 1935, there was correspondence between the editor of the trade journal Asbestos and Summer Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. This correspondence consisted of the editor asking permission to print an article about the dangers of asbestos inhalation. Written on September 25, 1935, the message read
Always you have requested that for certain obvious
reasons we publish nothing [abo ....
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