Journal Top Ten -- COLUMNS-Asbestos --November 2007

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TITLE: "Development of a Fiber Size-Specific Job-Exposure Matrix for Airborne Asbestos Fibers"

AUTHORS: Dement JM, Kuempel E, Zumwalde R, Smith R, Stayner L, Loomis D.

JOURNAL: Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2007 Nov 5; [Epub ahead of print]

SUMMARY: The authors of the study set out to develop a method for estimating fiber size-specific exposures to airborne asbestos dust for use in epidemiologic investigations of exposure-response relations. These data provide new information concerning the airborne fiber characteristics for a textile operation used for previous exposure-response analyses. The TEM data demonstrate that the vast majority of airborne fibers …