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Academic paper by E. Handen Zeren, Derya Gumurdulu, Victor L. Roggli, Ilhan Tuncer, Suzan Zorludemir and Melek Erkisr entitled ‘Environmental malignant mesothelioma in Southern Anatolia: a study of fifty cases’. Environmental Health Perspectives 2000, vol. 108, no. 11.

Article is entitled ‘Asbestos: banned but not dead’. Includes two photographs.

Letter to Dalton from Stephen Hughes, MEP, on opinion of European Commission’s Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment with regard to banning chrysotile.

Report by Tony Bingham, elastomers chemist, on Scandura [an asbestos product].

Papers on prosecutions of waste disposal/recycling firms over deaths of employees. Inlcudes press coverage and notes by Dalton on Ian Ward who died while working for Norpol Recycling Ltd, Lancashire.

Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.

Includes notes for speech by Dalton at the symposium.

Papers on asbestos in USA. Includes:

• emails and article on asbestos in California and Montana, 2000
• email on levels of asbestos in New York City after terrorist attack on World Trade Center, 2001

Correspondence between Dalton and Alex Reid, Donisthorpe and Co Ltd, on asbestos and railway workers. Includes correspondence between Dalton and British Railways Board.

Programme investigating allegations that homeless families were moved into asbestos-ridden Westminster Council flats as part of an attempt to influence the 1990 local elections.

Croner commissioned Dalton to write several articles for its Asbestos Risk Management newsletter and its Management of Contract Work newsletter. Included are copies of the following articles by Dalton:

• ‘Asbestos in the environment’
• ‘Focus on asbestos’
• ‘High risk activities’
• ‘Why is 3000 asbestos deaths a year not news?’
• ‘What progress on a global ban on asbestos?’
• ‘The duty to survey buildings for asbestos’

Letters to Dalton from Professor Paul Holt, Department of Chemistry, University of Reading on calcium silicate. Includes summary of study at Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, into toxicology of calcium silicate.

Papers on trade unions and the environment. Comprises:

• Dalton’s notes from TUC Environment Symposium, 1996
• report and articles on trade unions and the environment, 1992-1998