NIOSH testimony on beryllium by J. F. Finklea, December 10, 1975.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony concerns the development of a standard for controlling occupational exposures to beryllium (7440417). Attention was given to the entire issue of beryllium's carcinogenic potential. The testimony was a follow up to earlier communication and supplied information requested. The information included a review of not only new information, but also a gathering of older information to put into more proper perspective the entire issue of the carcinogenic potential of the element. Analysis of the information available indicated that beryllium does pose a carcinogenic risk to man, so that occupational exposures should be reduced to a minimum through engineering and/or personal protective controls. An evaluation was also attached of the currently available sampling and analytical methods. A question was raised over the correctness of results of analysis of volatile beryllium compounds due to possible sampling errors. While it was not felt that this concern at present was serious enough to delay the institution of the standard, NIOSH will provide additional information on this problem as it becomes available.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Dust Microbiology Mycoses Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-monitoring Analytical-methods Beryllium-compounds Control-methods NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Testimony Occupational-exposure Personal-protective-equipment
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00192314
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1975 Dec; :1-7
• CAS Registry Number:
  Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 7 pages, 28 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a3d25924fc7fe6468c68b37e697e1fd42d8e6656f448ac78e46f35187dbdb3d3bca7889ad5d27243953e15d6a4a4b019994d36dd2053b2c0f3956092c1166506
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180307/cdc_180307_DS1.pdf
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