Asbestos

Our plain-English summary of Asbestos, by National Toxicology Program (Report on Carcinogens, 2011).

The study

• Author: National Toxicology Program
• Journal: Report on Carcinogens
• Published: 2011;12:53-6
• Cited by: 2 articles, as counted by NIH iCite
• Read it: PubMed

In plain English

The text supplied for this entry does not match the citation. The citation is to the asbestos profile in the National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens, but the text provided is a different document. It is a scanned copy of an article titled "Asbestos" by I. J. Selikoff, printed in the March 1969 issue of the magazine Environment (Volume 11, Number 2). The article was presented at a symposium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Dallas, Texas, on December 28, 1968. The scanned pages carry the words "Johns-Manville Corporation, Environment Dept." They are followed by a confidential memorandum dated December 30, 1968, from Hill and Knowlton, Inc. to W. P. Raines of Johns-Manville, which describes the Dallas presentation. No part of the National Toxicology Program profile is present, so this summary does not report its contents. No findings from the 1969 article are credited to the cited National Toxicology Program report. The correct text of the National Toxicology Program profile is needed before a summary can be written.

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