摘要：There has been great public concern about the adverse health effects resulting from the presence of asbestos fibers in municipal drinking water supplies. This article reviews and summarizes the experimental findings of 11 published papers that have evaluated the carcinogenic potential of asbestos following its ingestion. The long-term, high-level ingestion of various types of asbestos fibers in more than one animal species failed to produce any definite, reproducible, organ-specific carcinogenic effect. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (807K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References . 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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