For decades, a laboratory procedure known as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been used to test for asbestos in samples taken at construction sites. In 1989, the U.S. Environmental ...

Historically, the greatest contributions to airborne asbestos concentrations during brake repair work were likely due to specific, short-duration, dust-generating activities. In this paper, the ...

Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...