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Display board visualising the presence of asbestos in common roof tiles, and substitute products.

Copy of the remarks of Alex A. Cross, Chairman of the Standing Committee, International Asbestos Information Conference, and Philip E. Enterline, Professor of Biostatics at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, at the Asbestos Information Association Third Annual Industry-Government Conference, 8-9 September 1976.

Copy of London Hazard Centre (1995) 'Asbestos hazards handbook'. Nancy Tait was one of the five invited speakers at the press conference to launch this publication.

Poster featuring the electron microscope used at the SPAID / OEDA Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU). Subtitled 'A new name for an exciting microscope providing TEM, SEM and STEM modes, plus elements analysis - that's TEMSCAN'. Additional labels were added by SPAID / OEDA: 'asbestos body' and 'chrysotile'.

Papers and a little covering correspondence re the proposed US Senate bill ‘to amend the Toxic Substance Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products’ and the contemporary asbestos compensation crisis in the US. Includes

• copy of Senator Murray’s proposed bill
• copies of Judge Griffin B Bell’s June 2002 speeches on asbestos litigation and judicial leadership

In Nancy Tait's circles, people monitoring these developments included Own Tudor, Laurie Kazan-Allen and Adrian Budgeon.

Photocopy of Federal Register (25 February 1987), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Copy of Federal Register (4 November 1983), OSHA, 29 CFR Part 1910.

A photocopy of this inscribed (in Nancy Tait's hand) 'Is it on America file?' and 'Copy needed for work on GI cancers' was in a research file on gastrointestinal cancer among asbestos workers (q v).

Copy of the booklet.

Poster announcing a seminar on occupational disease, 13-14 September 1979, Chicago.

Issued by the US Department of Labour.

Copy of the booklet

Copy of typescript (ring-bound) Expert Panel report, prepared at the request of Royal Society of Canada.

INSERM = Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, i.e. the French biomedical and public health research institution created in 1964.

Correspondence re obtaining a copy of the commission’s report, excerpts from the report, copy of Terence G Ison (1982) ‘Workers’ compensation and asbestos in Ontario: a commentary on the report [to the Royal Commission …] of Peter S Barth’

Shows Harts Lane area, Barking.

Testimony of Dr Julian Peto before the Royal Commission on matters of health and safety arising from the use of asbestos in Ontario, 29 and 30 July 1981, 2 vols.