Download or read book A Review of the NIOSH Roadmap for Research on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-01-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although asbestos is no longer mined in the United States, prior and ongoing exposures to asbestos continue to contribute to respiratory diseases, including mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. To examine ongoing issues and concerns in this field, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) drafted a research roadmap, Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research, that provides an overview of the state of the science and a plan for future research in areas including toxicology, mineralogy, epidemiology, and exposure assessment. The focus of the proposed research is on clarifying the relationship between human health effects and the physical and chemical characteristics of a wide range of elongate mineral particles. In 2008, NIOSH asked the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to form a committee to provide a review of the scientific and technical quality of the January 2009 draft NIOSH Roadmap document. The present volume provides the committee's assessment of the Roadmap and recommendations for strengthening its utility for NIOSH, other federal agencies, the private sector, and other stakeholders.
Download or read book Asbestos and Other Elongate Mineral Particles written by James R. Millette and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This compilation of Selected Technical Papers, STP1632, Asbestos and Other Elongate Mineral Particles---New and Continuing Challenges in the 21st Century, contains peer-reviewed papers that were accepted for a symposium to be held July 25--29, 2022, in Burlington, Vermont, USA. The symposium is sponsored by ASTM International Committee D22 on Air Quality and Subcommittee D22.07 on Sampling, Analysis, Management of Asbestos, and Other Microscopic Particles"--
Download or read book A Review of the Niosh Roadmap for Research on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles written by Committee for the Review of the Niosh Research Roadmap on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although asbestos is no longer mined in the United States, prior and ongoing exposures to asbestos continue to contribute to respiratory diseases, including mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. To examine ongoing issues and concerns in this field, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) drafted a research roadmap, Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research, that provides an overview of the state of the science and a plan for future research in areas including toxicology, mineralogy, epidemiology, and exposure assessment. The focus of the proposed research is on clarifying the relationship between human health effects and the physical and chemical characteristics of a wide range of elongate mineral particles. In 2008, NIOSH asked the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to form a committee to provide a review of the scientific and technical quality of the January 2009 draft NIOSH Roadmap document. The present volume provides the committee's assessment of the Roadmap and recommendations for strengthening its utility for NIOSH, other federal agencies, the private sector, and other stakeholders.
Download or read book Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles State of the Science and Roadmap for Research written by Department of Health and Human Services and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asbestos has been a highly visible issue in public health for over three decades. During the mid- to late-20th century, many advances were made in the scientific understanding of worker health effects from exposure to asbestos fibers and other elongate mineral particles (EMPs). It is now well documented that asbestos fibers, when inhaled, can cause serious diseases in exposed workers. However, many questions and areas of confusion and scientific uncertainty remain. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has determined that exposure to asbestos fibers causes cancer and asbestosis in humans on the basis of evidence of respiratory disease observed in workers exposed to asbestos, and recommends that exposures be reduced to the lowest feasible concentration. As the federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of worker injury and illness, NIOSH has undertaken a reappraisal of how to ensure optimal protection of workers from exposure to asbestos fibers and other EMPs. As a first step in this effort, NIOSH convened an internal work group to develop a framework for future scientific research and policy development. The NIOSH Mineral Fibers Work Group prepared a first draft of this State of the Science and Roadmap for Scientific Research (herein referred to as the Roadmap), summarizing NIOSH's understanding of occupational exposure and toxicity issues concerning asbestos fibers and other EMPs. NIOSH sought other views about additional key issues that should be identified, additional research that should be conducted, and methods for conducting the research. In particular, NIOSH sought input from stakeholders concerning study designs, techniques for generating size-selected fibers, analytic approaches, sources of particular types of EMPs suitable for experimental studies, and worker populations suitable for epidemiological study. The purpose of this Roadmap is to outline a research agenda that will guide the development of specific research programs and projects that will lead to a broader and clearer understanding of the important determinants of toxicity for asbestos fibers and other EMPs. NIOSH recognizes that results from such research may impact environmental as well as occupational health policies and practices. Many of the issues that are important in the workplace are also important to communities and to the general population. Therefore, NIOSH envisions that the planning and conduct of the research will be a collaborative effort involving active participation of multiple federal agencies, including the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Toxicology Program (NTP), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the United States Geological Survey (USGS), as well as labor, industry, academia, health and safety practitioners, and other interested parties, including international groups. This collaboration will help to focus the scope of the research, to fund and conduct the research, and to develop and disseminate informational materials describing research results and their implications for establishing new occupational and public health policies.
Download or read book Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles written by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Roadmap is intended to outline the scientific and technical research issues that need to be addressed to ensure that workers are optimally protected from health risks posed by exposures to asbestos fibers and other EMPs.
Download or read book Current Intelligence Bulletin 62 written by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1970s, NIOSH determined that exposure to asbestos fibers causes cancer and asbestosis in humans on the basis of evidence of respiratory disease observed in workers exposed to asbestos. Consequently, it made recommendations to the federal enforcement agencies on how to reduce workplace exposures. The enforcement agencies developed occupational regulatory definitions and standards for exposure to airborne asbestos fibers based on these recommendations. Since the promulgation of these standards, which apply to occupational exposures to the six commercially used asbestos minerals—the serpentine mineral chrysotile, and the amphibole minerals cummingtonite-grunerite asbestos (amosite), riebeckite asbestos (crocidolite), actinolite asbestos, anthophyllite asbestos, and tremolite asbestos—the use of asbestos in the United States has declined substantially and mining of asbestos in the United States ceased in 2002. Nevertheless, many asbestos products remain in use and new asbestos-containing products continue to be manufactured in or imported into the United States.
Download or read book Review of the NIOSH Roadmap for Research on Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles written by Liverman CT Nelson AR (Ei) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals written by Andrey Korchevskiy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates the risks and human health impacts of asbestos and other fibrous minerals Despite continuous efforts to eliminate asbestos from commercial use, it remains a serious occupational and environmental hazard. Health Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals provides a rigorous discussion of risk assessment methodology for elongate mineral particles, covering basics, theory, models, and practical applications, enabling readers to participate in carrying out efficient and informed health risk assessments, to estimate potential adverse effects for exposed populations, and to determine the acceptability of risks at a given level of exposure. Coverage includes: Mineralogy, health effects, pathology, exposure assessment, modeling, and characterization of risks for asbestos and similar toxic materials Necessary integration of epidemiology, toxicology, industrial hygiene, and environmental health expertise when performing a health risk assessment Emerging and not-well-known hazards, e.g. erionite and other naturally occurring fibrous minerals Contributions by Garry Burdett, Bruce Case, Lucy Darnton, Daniel Hall, Arseniy Korchevskiy, Brooke Mossman, Cassidy Strode, Robert Strode, and Ann Wylie Case studies and examples of risk calculations Health Risk Assessment for Asbestos and Other Fibrous Minerals is a highly practical reference on the subject for occupational and public health professionals, industry and government regulators, industrial hygienists, and risk assessors, along with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, toxicologists, and other scientific professionals.
Download or read book Asbestos and Other Fibrous Materials written by H. Catherine W. Skinner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-11-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive sourcebook describes the chemical, physical, and mineralogical aspects of fibrous inorganic materials, both synthetic and naturally occurring. A general description of the fibrous state, the range of compounds that can adopt this form, and an overview of the characteristics unique to such materials form the backbone of the book . The authors also assess the application and use of asbestos and other fibrous materials in industry and evaluate their potential as health hazards. The information gathered here will be highly useful to medical investigators and legal professionals involved in environmental health.
Download or read book Health Effects of Censored Elongated Mineral Particles A Critical Review written by David Egilman and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detection limits for asbestos and elongated mineral particles (EMPs) necessarily depend on what counts by a given test method or procedure. Censored data in this context include both fibers that fall below and outside of a laboratorys counting criteria. For microscopic methods, in particular, counting criteria may be based on health effects, methodological convenience, or geologic definition. For purposes of public health, data censorship for asbestos or EMPs should be predicated on the toxicity of the fibers and not on a geologic definition. Some geologic definitions of EMPs are inconsistent with existing evidence of EMP toxicity. For this study, we used systematic search techniques and grounded theory to review published studies, government records, corporate documents, and public statements. Research links asbestos health effects to fiber dimensions, fiber surface area, biopersistence, chemical composition, and surface properties. We review the evidence that indicate that short fibers (
Download or read book Definitions for Asbestos and Other Health related Silicates written by American Society for Testing and Materials and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1984 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asbestiform Fibers written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the more than 30 million tons of asbestos used in the United States since 1900 is still present as insulation in offices and schools, as vinyl-asbestos flooring in homes, and in other common products. This volume presents a comprehensive evaluation of the relation of these fibers to specific diseases and the extent of nonoccupational risks associated with them. It covers sources of asbestiform fibers, properties of the fibers, and carcinogenic and fibrogenic risks they pose.
Download or read book Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy written by Melinda Darby Dyar and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asbestos written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-09-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conjunction with drafting comprehensive legislation concerning compensation for health effects related to asbestos exposure (the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Act), the Senate Committee on the Judiciary directed the Institute of Medicine to assemble the Committee on Asbestos: Selected Health Effects. This committee was charged with addressing whether asbestos exposure is causally related to adverse health consequences in addition to asbestosis, mesothelioma, and lung cancer. Asbestos: Selected Cancers presents the committee's comprehensive distillation of the peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature regarding association between asbestos and colorectal, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, and stomach cancers.
Download or read book Mineral Fibers and Health written by F.D.K. Liddell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-06-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The part of this book covering pathogensis and modes of action begins with a chapter on the physicochemical properties of asbestos fibers and a chapter on the deposition and retention of fibers within the lung and their clearance. Some of the effects of asbestos can be reproduced in animal experiments, and the book includes a full review of the results from animal studies using various routes of administration of fibers. It is also generally accepted that the effects of fibers on pulmonary macrophages is central to all fiber-induced pathology, and the release of macrophage-associated inflammatory and immunological mediatros is dealt with in a further chapter. Examination of pathogenicity by cell culture is described, and areas covered include the role of free radicals and cellular mechanisms in producing genetic damage. The fiber-induced activation of some second messenger pathways is also described, with consideration of whether or not similar cellular mechanisms are responsible for all the clinical conditions associated with fiber exposure. Knowledge of the mechanisms involved should be valuable in the development of safe fibers and the prevention of human exposure to new materials that are dangerous as asbestos. The final chapters expound and resolve the conflicts in evidence, discuss the importance of fibers for human well-being and the possible health impact on nonmineral alternatives, and evaluate risks to the public
Download or read book Asbestos written by Michele Carbone and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects offers a key text on the evolving information regarding asbestos and human health. Now in its third edition, this bestseller explores the pathological complexities of asbestos-related disease and examines how asbestos induces diseases in biological systems. The book also discusses the types of instruments and methods available for evaluation of the content of asbestiform minerals in products, air, water, surface areas, and tissue. It explains the relevance of each of these applications and gives readers the tools to evaluate data in the future. Edited by leading authorities on the subject and with contributions from a team of international experts, this book takes a cross-disciplinary approach and an authoritative review of the history, pathology, epidemiology, sampling, and analysis of asbestos. Backed up with photos and numerous diagrams, tables, and photographs, it features case studies, methodologies, and sampling/analytical schemes that put learning into context. Fully up-to-date and featuring four brand new chapters covering asbestosis and immunity, asbestos litigation and surgical and non-surgical management of mesothelioma, this book remains the most comprehensive source of information on asbestos and the only guide the reader will ever need to own. This essential text will appeal to any professional at any level who requires the latest expertise in dealing with asbestos. It suits researchers and practitioners alike, as well as those in the fields of law, health, education, hospitality, emergency response, building management and maintenance, construction, safety, insurance, and industrial hygiene.
