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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;31:700-701
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Book Review

The Health Effects of Chrysotile Asbestos: Contribution of Science to Risk Management Decisions

RP Nolan, AM Langer, M Ross, FJ Wicks, RF Martin (eds). Ottawa: Mineralogical Association of Canada, 2001, pp. 304, $US38. ISBN: 0-921294-41-7

Helene Irvine

This is the fifth Special Publication of The Canadian Mineralogist, produced by the Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC). It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of a 3-day International Workshop of the same title held in September 1997, in Montreal, Canada. The workshop was sponsored jointly by the MAC and the Mineralogical Society of America.

The preamble reveals that as long ago as 1978, the International Mineralogical Association ruled that the hyphenated terms grunerite-asbestos and riebeckite-asbestos be used instead of the ‘invalid’ terms ‘amosite’ and ‘crocidolite’, respectively (commonly known as ‘brown’ and ‘blue asbestos’, colloquial terms which are also recommended for abolition). This will be news to many scientists in this field. I wonder if . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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