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It does not, and should, discuss other recent product-liability cases of national importance, such as asbestos, tobacco, and hand guns.
Enhancing security and removing asbestos within the GAO Building to protect the health and safety of our most important asset-our staff--$2,839,000;
The EPA Office of Inspector General investigated the issuance of these press releases and concluded that the agency did not have enough data about the range of possible pollutants other than asbestos to make a judgment, lacked public health benchmarks for appropriate levels of asbestos and other pollutants, and had imprecise methods for sampling asbestos in the air; it also noted that more than 25 percent of the bulk dust samples collected before September 18 showed the presence of asbestos above the agency's 1 percent benchmark.
A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,"Terrorist Attacks; Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA's Whitman:'No reason for concern,'" Newsday, Sept. 16, 2001, p.
A mountain of scientific studies has shown that asbestos in walls is almost never dangerous: The only dangerous thing is trying to rip it out because that causes fibers to become airborne--exactly what has happened at Berlaymont.