title: Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects
author: Ronald F. Dodson
description: The authors clearly have a very detailed understanding of the relevant laws and provide a comprehensive overview of the links between these and environmental health. [the book's] value lies in meeting the generalist needs of public interest groups, high school teachers, first year introductory undergraduate courses and, possibly, Environmental Health Practitioners.<br /> - Progress in Physical Geography, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2004
zlib_text: ERIONITE 
  CAS No. 66733-21-9 
  First Listed in the Seventh Annual Report on Carcinogens 
  CARCINOGENICITY
  Erionite is known to be a human carcinogen based on sufficient evidence of
  carcinogenicity in humans (IARC 1987a,b). Descriptive studies have demonstrated very high
  mortality from malignant mesothelioma, mainly of the pleura, in three Turkish villages where
  there was contamination from erionite and where the population had been exposed from birth.
  Erionite fibers were identified in lung tissue samples in cases of pleural mesothelioma;
  ferruginous bodies were found in a much higher proportion of inhabitants in contaminated 
  villages than of those in two control villages (Baris 1991). 
  An IARC Working Group reported that there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity of 
  erionite in experimental animals (IARC 1987a,b). When administered by inhalation, erionite 
  induced plural mesotheliomas in rats of both sexes.
  When administered by intraperitoneal
  injection, erionite induced peritone