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GB 249 OEDA/E/5/5
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HSE joint press announcement with Dr Julian Peto, March 1995
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- 1995-1996 (Creation)
- 1967-1996 (Accumulation)
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3 folders
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From a lever arch file inscribed 'HSE | Peto Report | and later | some 1982/3 papers' and a green ring binder inscribed 'Information papers'
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Correspondence and papers re HSE asbestos awareness campaign and HSE joint press announcement (with Dr Julian Peto), 3 March 1995, announcing that asbestos is dangerous also to those not involved in its production. Includes:
- press coverage and correspondence arising
- Nancy Tait’s own press statement on the matter, timed to pre-date the HSE announcement; also draft of her article on SPAID and its achievements, written at the request of the British Lung Foundation (BLF)
- Tait’s compilations documenting Dr Peto’s involvement with the asbestos industry; that SPAID had furnished him with the relevant information as early as 1982-1983; and documenting Dr Peto's significantly lower estimates of the risks of asbestos exposure at the time
- further papers 1967-1994 with bearings on the matter
Julian Peto's latest analyses and projections of mesothelioma mortality appeared in 'Lancet' on 4 March 1995 (Peto et al., 'Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain'). They significantly revised his findings, with R Doll, of 1985.
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- Peto, Julian, b. 1945, epidemiologist (Subject)
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- English