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Recording from the conference 'The third wave of asbestos disease: exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control', Collegium Ramazzini, New York, 7-9 June 1990.

Table of cases 946-1332 (18 December 1990-14 May 1992), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted SPAID, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, notice to appeal given (ACK), appeal papers received, SPAID's submission sent, hearing date, comments. Of these, columns chiefly used are the first 3-4 and the last.

Display board with reproduction of floor plan of the SPAID Electron Microscope Research Unit (EMU), November 1987, and colour photographs of EMU equipment. Also features the EM technician, presumably Lawrie Hawkins.

The board is labelled 'OEDA', which would date it 1993 or after. However, it looks as if this was not the original labelling.

Copies of 'Asbestos watch: newsletter of the White Lung Association' 1991-1995 (incomplete set) and of 'Asbestos update' May 1995-September 1998.

Includes

• Nancy Tait’s notes for her presentation; also notes of the conference
• copy of Tait et al. (1979) ‘National priorities in occupational disease: the family and the community’, originally presented at Dubrovnik
• copy of The Greens in the European Parliament (1993) ‘The dark side of the asbestos story: presented within the frame of “Bastamiantos“ international symposium on asbestos Milan, April 1993’

Also earlier correspondence with Italian and French anti-asbestos activists (among them Italo Busto) and correspondence arising, re asbestos in railway carriages, work of the ‘Ban Asbestos’ Federation, etc.

Reportedly the conference proceedings were published as 'Atti del Convegno internazionale Bastamianto organizzato da BAEF – Ban Asbestos European Federation, Milano 17-18 aprile 1993', Ban Asbestos European Federation, S. E., Milan, 1994. It is unclear whether Nancy Tait's paper is included.

Organisatorial correspondence and papers.

Photocopy of Federal Register (13 May 1992), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Display board on SPAID's 'Tackle a tiddler' competition, 1993. Labelled 'SPAID'.

1 poster, two colours.

In addition to Nancy Tait, speakers included Prof. Lorenzo Tomatis (International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon), Prof. Franco Berrino (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan), Prof. Henri Pézerat (CNRS, Paris), Bianca Guidetti Serra (lawyer, Turin), Yves Frémion (member of the French Green Party & member of the European Parliament), Prof. Annie Thébaud-Mony (Inserm, Paris), Dr Emanuele Lauria (USL Grugliasco, Turin), Maria Wojtowicz (USL Grugliasco, Turin), Dr Vito Totire (USL 28 Bologna), Richard Jackson (Ban Asbestos, UK) and Elisabeth Ramat (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Nazionale).

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.

Photocopy of OSHA 'Asbestos standard for the construction industry' (OSHA 3096, 1995 [Revised])

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.

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763 - Asbestos (Subpart E - Asbestos-containing materials in schools).

Table of cases 3001-3735 (11 August 1997-13 March 2007), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted OEDA, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, comments.

This schedule marks a departure from previous practice, in that columns that remained empty in past registers have been removed. Also, the third column now bears the new name of the organisation.