Posted on 01/08/2006 11:12:51 AM PST by saquin
You may very well be correct, but OSHA regs do not generally address multiple exposure issues. Perhaps they should, but they don't. The law requires OSHA standards to be based on science, not someone's intuition of what would be unhealthy, and the difficulty of doing multiple-contaminant studies increases exponentially with each added contaminant. It's just not practical.
I do agree that breathing that stuff certainly couldn't have been healthy. Will it kill you 4 years later? Possible, but many thousands of people were exposed, and I haven't heard of any major increase in mortality among them.
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