In the preparation of this report Professor Zielhuis had the help of 3 physicians and 3
engineers, all from the Netherlands. It is emphasized that the report refers only to public …

Within the scope of the preparation of Integrated Criteria Documents for priority compounds
in The Netherlands, the possible health effects of oral and inhalatory exposure to asbestos …

Asbestos-related risks have been extrapolated from the past, when high-dose occupational
exposures were frequent. The linear no-threshold dose-response pattern has been …

When, in September 1982, we were asked to undertake a further review of the adverse
effects of asbestos on health, we had serious doiibts about our ability to add anything …

More than 40 years of evaluation have consistently confirmed the carcinogenicity of
asbestos in all of its forms. This notwithstanding, according to recent figures, the annual …

This report is an assessment of all available literature that pertains to the potential risk of
cancer associated with ingestion of asbestos. It was compiled by a working group to assist …

For the period from 1973 to the end of 1986, 70656 data sets on occupational preventive
medical examinations in employees exposed occupationally to asbestos dust (G 1.2) were …

The usefulness of asbestos as an industrial material must be considered to understand the
breadth of its public health impact. Since its discovery as an indestructible material centuries …

In the period from 1960 to 1990 about 1.4 million tonnes of asbestos were imported and
mainly processed into asbestos-cement products for the building industry. The production …

Occupational and nonoccupational exposures to asbestos hazards are discussed. World
production of asbestos increased from 446,000 metric tons in 1938 to over 2 million tons in …