Books, Monographs
Asbestiform Fibers:
Nonoccupational Health Risks. Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks
of Asbestiform Fibers, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards,
National Research Council. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1984.
ISBN 0309034469
External Link: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/509.html
Biomarkers: Medical
and Workplace Applications. Mortimer L. Mendelsohn, Lawrence C. Mohr,
and John P. Peeters, Eds. Washington DC: Joseph Henry Press, 1998. ISBN
0309064228
External Link: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6033.html
Educational Resources
Oklahoma
State University's Environmental Health & Safety Online Safety Library:
Asbestos
External Link: http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/links/asbestos.htm
University
of Iowa's Virtual Hospital: The Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease: Asbestos
External Link: http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/DiffuseLung/Text/Asbestosis.html
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
External Link: http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/
Governmental Resources
Agency
for the Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Toxicological Profile
for Asbestos (Draft for Public Comment) August 1999
External Link: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp61.html
Consumer
Product Safety Commission's Warning About Asbestos in Consumer Products:
Safety Alert
External Link: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5080.html
Environmental
Protection Agency's Asbestos Index
External Link: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/asbestos/index.html
EPA's
United Air Toxics Website: Asbestos
External Link: http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/asbestos.html
International
Chemical Safety Cards
International
Program for Chemical Protection's Reduction of Asbestos in the Environment
External Link: http://www.asbestos-institute.ca/reviews/rome/romecontent.html
Mine
Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - Asbestos Single
Source Page
External Link: http://www.msha.gov/asbestos/asbestos.htm
National Cancer
Institute (NCI) - Asbestos Exposure: Questions and Answers
External Link: http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_21.htm
Occupational
Safety & Health Administration's Standards (29 CFR)
External Link: http://www.osha.gov/comp-links.html
Other Resources
American Thoracic Society Statement on Tremolite Health Effects
PDF only 1395 KB (6 pages)
External Link: http://www.thoracic.org/sections/publications/statements/pages/archive/tremolite1-6.html
Asbestos
Institute
External Link: http://www.asbestos-institute.ca/main.html
MesoBlog.org
External Link: http://www.mesotheliomareporter.org/
Mesothelioma Web
External Link:http://www.mesotheliomaweb.org/
Mesothelioma and Asbestos
External Link: http://www.maacenter.org/
Mesothelioma Information and Resource Group (MIRG.org)
External Link: http://www.mirg.org/
Mesothelioma Reporter
External Link: http://www.mesotheliomareporter.org/
National Institute
of Building Sciences' Asbestos Control Publications (Abstracts and ordering
info)
External Link: http://www.nibs.org/pubsasb.html
National Agricultural
Safety Database
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